Ambition Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

Profit doesn't appear as the goal but as a side effect of pursuing motivating principles.

— Ted Malloch

The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit…

— Karl Marx

Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!

— Peter Drucker

Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is one of…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The key to motivation is motive.

— Stephen Covey

The profit motive promotes economic growth by creating better products at cheaper prices.

— Mark Skousen

“Businesses are uniquely capable of creating social value and solving social problems - they have this wonderful fuel called the profit motive.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“motives for greed and selfishness are often attributed to toil and source of riches.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“To tap this deep wellspring of human motivation, companies need to shift their emphasis from profit maximization to purpose maximization.19”

— John E. Mackey

Profit isn't a purpose, it's a result. To have purpose means the things we do are of real value to others.

— Simon Sinek

Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.

— Juvenal

Motivation is motive in action.

— Denis Waitley