Profit Quotes

Profit Quote of the day

Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from learning, is betraying knowledge and rendering it worthless

[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.

Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

The purpose of the corporation must be redefined as creating shared value, not just profit per se. This will drive the next wave of innovation and productivity growth in the global economy.

Profit is the payment you get when you take advantage of change.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

I've always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had always been rapping.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.

If you suffer [death] in the way of God, it will be your profit in this world, and your reward in the next.

Take advantage of little sufferings even more than of great ones. God considers not so much what we suffer as how we suffer. . . Turn everything to profit as the grocer does in his shop.

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.

If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.

I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit.

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

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.

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.

We must take the profit out of war.

If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God.

If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety,but profit.

War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.

Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don't have enough of it, you're out of the game. But if you think your life is about breathing, you're really missing something.

The concept of profit maximization is, in fact, meaningless.

A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.

We live in a time when complex ethical questions are easily subordinated to the demands of efficiency, profit maximization, and maintenance or furthering of political power.

I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.

At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'.

Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.

The workers should take over the factories, and shut down Boeing's profit-making machine.

When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.

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!

Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.

Unless we change direction, models show that the profit of the entire consumer goods sector could be wiped out by 2050.

The entire pursuit of value investing requires you to see where the crowd is wrong so that you can profit from their misperceptions.

All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.

A small profit is better than a big loss.

Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity.

In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.

A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.

The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.

In a world where profit is consistently put before both people and the planet, climate economics has everything to do with ethics and morality.

Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process.

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.