Greater good Quote by Yann Martel Download Open image ““...the Greater Good and the Greater Profit are not compatible aims...”” — Yann Martel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Greater good
“Profit is a by-product of success, focus on success not on profit.” — Firoz Thairinil Copy Share Image
“Everywhere, there was imbalance, and the surest path to profit was to be between something valuable and someone who valued it.” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for… — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
“Better to lose money in a good company rather than making money in a bad one.” — Vijay Kedia Copy Share Image
“Everyone faces problems. Few have the vision to turn them into profit and purpose.” — Marion Bekoe Copy Share Image
“Much harm may result from bad company and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse rather than what is better.” — Saint Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
“Great leap forwards in mankind do not take place because of the economic values we place on them. They happen because we strive to… — David Alejandro Fearnhead Copy Share Image
As business leaders, we should not choose between profit or good; rather, we must choose to profit from good. And that requires connecting what… — Punit Renjen Copy Share Image
“Doing good for the sake of a heavenly reward is not an act of good, but a business transaction.” — J.Adam Snyder Copy Share Image
“the result of creating a more equal environment will not just be better performance for our organizations, but quite likely greater happiness for all.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“The problem is that rich are getting richer by not giving and poor and getting poorer by not receiving.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“It’s a big ocean crossed by busy ships. I went slowly, observing much.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“The word isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I must say a word about fear. It's is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Or rather, since Christians are so fond of capital letters, a Story.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread - these are two laws… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence were… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I never had problems with my fellow scientists. Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“If I do not do this thing, then it may go on and on. Nothing of the greater good comes without struggle and sacrifice… — Kathleen Kent Copy Share Image
All it takes for generosity to flow is awareness. By actively pursuing awareness and knowledge, we can make choices that cause less harm and… — Zoe Weil Copy Share Image
“Because sometimes bad things—downright horrible things in fact—must be done. For the greater good of the Republic. The “greater good” is, after all, what… — Jason Anspach Copy Share Image
“What good was a personal victory to someone who'd spent her life losing herself for the greater good of everyone else?” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“[...] the kind of healer who knows that sometimes one must inflict terrible agony - rebreak a bone, carve off a limb, kill the… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
I don't go with ego: If I wanna work with a guy, I'm hitting him up. Because it's for the greater good of the… — Benny the Butcher Copy Share Image
A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Problems tend to be put into their proper perspective the moment we get off SELF, and on PURPOSE. By choosing your purpose in life… — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves… — Patrick Soon-Shiong Copy Share Image
“There's an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer that I've been thinking about a lot while writing this essay. In it, Buffy sacrifices her… — Jennifer Lynn Barnes Copy Share Image
“You have behaved in an exemplary manner until now. Even when you could have gained by doing something wrong, you refrained from doing so.… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image