No Profit Quotes

There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it. [Non enim potest quaestus consistere, si eum sumptus superat.]

The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious. [Lat., Cui homini dii propitii sunt aliquid objiciunt lucri.]

The obsession with economic profit and technical efficiency puts the human rhythms of life at risk.

He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.

The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.

Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit.

Grant me profits only, grant me the joy of profit made, and see to it that I enjoy cheating the buyer!

Time is like a ship which never anchors; while I am on board, I had better do those things that may profit me at my landing, than practice such as shall cause my commitment when I come ashore.

We need to help companies find profit opportunities abroad, not photo opportunities.

Unfortunately, Congress is protecting the profits of those opposed to protecting the planet.

If you do something for fun and create the best possible product, then the profit will come.

Whenever I see people getting a bad deal I want to step in and do something about it. Of course, this is not pure altruism - there's a profit to be made too.

The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.

All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.

We know that BP cuts safety corners, takes risks, and is unconcerned about anything other than their own profit.

Less volatile stocks tend to have negative abnormal profits; more volatile stocks tend to have positive abnormal profits.

Wall Street is where prophets tell us what will happen and profits tell us what did happen.

There is no profit in deceit. An honest man knows revenge is not sweet.

A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men’s works, for his own memory sake, into short room.

Your profits reflect the success of your customers.

We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years.

There isn't one thing the federal government does that anybody in Big Business would emulate, at least not in the profit sector.

When people don't want 'em, when they profit from the division, however, be it politically or financially, that's when I abhor it.

I want the largest audience I can get, because that's how I can charge the highest advertising rate. Which means what else do I want? Money. I am trying to earn a profit. It's capitalism.

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit.

A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit.

The profit on a good action is to have done it.

Legitimate profit is good. What's bad is profiteering.

... one doesn't really profit from experience; one merely learns to predict the next mistake.

Movie makers now choose profit over vision.

By linking with friends and ultimately strangers and building those relationships, social media is reweaving the social fabric that can then be used to scale your non-profit efforts.

The future of profit is purpose.

The way customers relate to brands and how profit is generated has changed so dramatically almost every professional is being challenged to reconsider what they do in order to stay relevant.

More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them.

Play, creativity, art, spontaneity, all these experiences are their own rewards and are blocked when we perform for reward or punishment, profit or loss.

In not-for-profit theater, you don't worry so much about how the audience is going to react. You want to make them absorb the piece.

East India Company weren't an evil organization that went around deliberately oppressing people, but they were driven by profit, and how familiar is that now?

In the same way that a powerful medicine cures an illness, so illness itself is a medicine to cure passion. And there is much profit of soul in bearing illness quietly and giving thanks to God.

Profit doesn't appear as the goal but as a side effect of pursuing motivating principles.

If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity and faith, and seek not at any time the fame of being learned.

No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings of those committed to their charge.

Writers in a profit making economy are an exploitable commodity whose works are products to be marketed, and are so judged and handled.

Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.

If you look around at America, that's one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit.

Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.

In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.

Beethoven and Michelangelo, who sold their artworks for profit, were entrepreneurs and capitalists.

In general, anyone who paid the long distance telephone tax will get the refund on their 2006 federal income tax return. This includes individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations.