No Profit Quotes

Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly imagine.

When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.

I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing.

There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such profit, but in the end the profit will turn out to be a loss.

I know transplanted human worth will bloom to profit otherwhere.

It was my duty to have loved the highest; It surely was my profit had I known: It would have been my pleasure had I seen. We needs must love the highest when we see it, Not Lancelot, nor another.

America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization of the society is just the resurfacing of that.

What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices; it comes down to a commercial dealing in which self-esteem always expects to profit.

In capitalism, profit does not come out of another man's hardship; it comes out of new production of new wealth that's never existed before.

It's safe to say that the value of the property had shot up considerably and in the end I made a pretty satisfying profit.

a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.

I've always taken risks and bought property well. As journalism wasn't particularly well paid, buying homes and selling them for profit improved my income.

When a company is fairly certain of a profit margin that is substantial, it can assume responsibility for the clinical trials to develop a blockbuster drug.

An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.

Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit.

Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.

I can't stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I'm Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.

Big business is willing to destroy the planet for short-term profits

To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family?

The National Bank at profit sells road maps for the soul.

Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.

The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.

Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.

In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.

A profit is not without honor save in Boston.

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.

The fastest surging woman leadership position is heading non-profit organizations. Women are not rejecting leadership positions -- they're rejecting politics.

The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.

We in America count on the profit motive to get people to do the right thing. That's our basic American notion when it comes to business.

The answer is the disruptive innovator, an outsider, who creates a product or service for the non-existing consumer in a non-existing market for almost no profit.

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Corporations never actually mention 'money'; that would be vulgar. They prefer such words as 'turnover,' 'profit,' 'salary,' 'revenue,' 'budget,' 'premium,' and 'savings,' all much more refined.

You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit.

Profit is not the proper end and aim of management - it is what makes all of the proper ends and aims possible

I started doing the star turn and making a profit off it. Now I'm kind of one of them.

You shouldn't be allowed to profit from the illegal proceeds, right? So if you're going to sell narcotics and sell illegal drugs in America, you also cannot profit from that.

It is now abundantly clear that the Clintons set up a business to profit from public office. They sold access and specific actions by and really for I guess the making of large amounts of money.

There can be associations - enlightened businesses, for example - that do not work on the basis of us against them or wanting profit as the main motivating force behind what they do.

The Republican program is the profit-protection program for the insurance industry It's a bill of goods, it's a bill of wrongs. Ours is a patients' bill of rights.

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.

You know, my background, I was at a non-profit for years.

Increasingly, I'm inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a profit.

Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses.

Cybercriminals are usually driven by profit, while cyberterrorists are driven by ideology.

I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.

Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.

I believe that it is the responsibility of everyone in corporate life to help with the funding of non-profit organizations.

I bought my first house when I was 24 for £19,500 and it was sold two years ago for £256,000. I've always made profit on my houses.

Honor and profit lie not all in one sack.

Honour and profit lie not in one sacke. [Honour and profit lie not in one sack.]