Profit Quotes
There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.-Abu Bakr
There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.-Daniel Bernoulli
There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.-George Meredith
They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because they're working on the Oscars show. It's the biggest show in the world.-Bruce Vilanch
Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.-Bob Dole
To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants.-Peter Stuyvesant
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.-Wilson Mizner
Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.-Tom Scholz
Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit.-John L. Lewis
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.-Orison Swett Marden
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.-George Orwell
War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.-Ron Paul
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.-Paul Valery
We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so... we used to rotate crops back in the day and, you know, who cares if you're going to make a profit if everybody's too dead or glowing in the dark to be able to purchase anything.-Michael Berryman
We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.-Sam Ewing
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.-Jose Marti
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
We need to take excellent care of our customers, and do so at a profit.-Gerard Arpey
We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good.-Steve Ballmer
Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?-Ed Wood
What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.-Bill Janklow
What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?-Robert Fulghum
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence?-Jerome Cavanagh
What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.-Frederick Tennyson
When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.'-Mitch Daniels
When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit.-Albert Maltz
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.-Shirley Chisholm
When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.-Michael McKean
Where we're living we have a certain amount of our profit every year it's like a percentage 5 or 7% or something like that that we set aside specifically for charity things.-Jon Fishman
Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions.-Robert McChesney
While mainstream media is led by profit, ratings and popularist culture and filtered by the current political climate, Alternative Media is lead solely by the convictions of the campaign and film maker.-Ben Edwards
Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent.-Christiane Amanpour
You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.-Paddy Chayefsky
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.-Harper Lee
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 under-estimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care of social needs.-George Soros
My head can get to murder and rape for profit because I can understand greed as a human motive, but I cannot understand the voyeuristic desire to watch such a film. I can comprehend one and I cannot comprehend the other.-Donna Leon
Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.-Paul Getty
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.-Thomas Hardy
Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.-Bernard Baruch
Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities.-Maurice Strong
Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.-Desiderius Erasmus
One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.-B. Carroll Reece
Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First Amendment veil in order to exploit children for the sake of corporate profit.-Connie Sellecca
Poets wish to profit or to please.-Horace
Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.-Arthur Erickson
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.-W. Edwards Deming
Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.-James Rouse
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.-Sophocles
Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.-Scott Adams
So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit who just so happens to be a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, we want that same consideration.-Chuck Zito
Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!-Mother Jones
Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.-Johannes Tauler
Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.-Thomas Hobbes
I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity.-Roy Barnes
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.-Anne Baxter
If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.-Aeschylus
If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.-Jimmy Breslin
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.-Nhat Hanh
If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.-Woody Allen
If you count all your assets you always show a profit.-Wilson Mizner
In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.-Lajos Kossuth
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.-Thomas Hobbes
It breaks even. We lose ten, twenty grand every year. But then the people who are working say, Look, I'll kick this back in, I don't need to take this profit share. It's very cooperative.-John Zorn
It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up.-William Graham Sumner
It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce.-David Ricardo
It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.-John Hersey
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.-Plutarch
Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.-William Wordsworth
Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.-John Philips
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.-Warren Buffett
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.-Henry Miller
Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream - but create!-Robert Collier