Profit Quotes - page 2

Capitalism might be defined, if we wish to be scientific, as a form of economic organization motivated by the pursuit of profit within a price structure. (Carroll Quigley)
Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by. View quote
George Meredith
Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it. View quote
Orison Swett Marden
When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one. View quote
Paul Brunton
Technological progress becomes even more exciting when it enters into the service of the social idea which demands that not only a small elite but humanity at large should profit by it. View quote
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper. View quote
Kazuo Inamori
We need to take excellent care of our customers, and do so at a profit. View quote
Gerard Arpey
Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can wreak havoc on their quality of life and economic viability. When natural disasters strike, we must do all we can to assist the backbone of our economy. View quote
Ruben Hinojosa
We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from. View quote
José Martí
We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face. (Kofi Annan)
It is not the government's purpose to make a profit the way a company does, because a company doesn't have to give a damn about the unemployed poor or provide services that are non-commercial by definition. View quote
Jean Chrétien
Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention, and I wouldn't underestimate the value of that. But they're not designed to take care of social needs. View quote
George Soros
Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck. View quote
Ba Jin
When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter if I am right, he will learn if I am wrong, I will one of us will win, but both will profit. View quote
Ayn Rand
In times of political confusion, and under an arbitrary government, many will prefer to keep their capital inactive, concealed, and unproductive, either of profit or gratification, rather than run the risk of its display. This latter evil is never felt under a good government. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
The profit of the one is the profit of the other. View quote
Frédéric Bastiat
It's no go my honey love, it's no go my poppet; Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit. The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever, But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up the weather. View quote
Louis MacNeice
However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Where any work can be done conformably to the reason which is common to gods and men, there we have nothing to fear; for where we are able to get profit by means of the activity which is successful and proceeds according to our constitution, there no harm is to be suspected. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages. (David Ricardo)
Why are vegans made fun of while the inhumane factory farming process regards animals and the natural world merely as commodities to be exploited for profit? View quote
Ellen Page
Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix, and stay conscious. View quote
Boris Johnson
I believe [...] that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople. The concepts of science, in all their richness and ambiguity, can be presented without any compromise, without any simplification counting as distortion, in language accessible to all intelligent people. [...] I hope that this book can be read with profit both in seminars for graduate students and-if the movie stinks and you forgot your sleeping pills-on the businessman's special to Tokyo. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
You know how to vanquish, Hannibal, but you do not know how to profit from victory. View quote
Livy