Profit Quotes

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. (Plutarch)
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. View quote
John C. Maxwell
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. View quote
Arthur Miller
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. View quote
George Orwell
Many receive advice, but the wise profit from it. View quote
Publilius Syrus
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. View quote
Thomas Paine
War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures. View quote
Ron Paul
A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge. View quote
Marvin Bower
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. View quote
Dale Carnegie
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
A few profit – and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war. View quote
Smedley Butler
The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others. View quote
Pliny the Elder
If evolutionary selection is the basis for a belief in profit maximization, 'then we should postulate that basis itself and not the profit maximization which it implies in certain circumstances. View quote
Tjalling Koopmans
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back... View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane. View quote
Henry Miller
War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other. View quote
Paul Valéry
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses. View quote
Shirley Chisholm
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. (Wilson Mizner)
The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit. View quote
Samuel Gompers
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work. View quote
Nhat Hanh
Caesar had his Brutus; Charles the First, his Cromwelland George the Third (Treason, cried the Speaker) ... may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it. View quote
Patrick Henry
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. View quote
Thomas Hobbes