Profit Quotes

Honour without profit is a ring on the finger.

No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.

What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?

It is not the mere study of the Law, but to become eminent in the profession of it, which is to yield honor and profit.

Private citizens and companies are always seen as evil and greedy, because they want to profit. But the government picks your pocket any chance it can get, but they're never called greedy.

The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.

I've had such a great track record in making a huge profit when the movies are smaller.

There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit.

Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.

Profits are part of the mechanism by which society decides what it wants to see produced.

You shouldn't have a profit motivation to fill prison cells with young Americans.

I want to see more companies do profit-sharing. If you help create the profits, you should be able to share in them, not just the executives at the top.

Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and whatever days fortune will give, count them as profit.

Anybody can leverage celebrity for profit.

If Vancouver did not succeed as Starbucks from '87 on, our entire international business, which is now thousands of stores and a significant amount of growth and profit, may not have existed.

The much-maligned price system works not only to secure supply but to conserve. [...] Profits and prices are the street signs of the economy. Only fools flout them.

He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone's vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself.

I have very little interest in the bottom line or signing artists to help make the label profit. That's a lucky, unique position to be in, but it all comes out in the wash.

We don't see profit as a blind instrument.

I know that the fantastic amount of profit that people want to make on anything is damaging. And that none of us seem able to resist it.

Man cannot live by profit alone.

Scepticism, like wisdom, springs out in full panoply only from the brain of a god, and it is little profit to see an idea in its growth, unless we track its seed to the power which sowed it.

The foremost corporate responsibility is to serve others so well you produce a profit.

All I want to do is make serious movies that explore social issues and turn a profit, and slip the schnitzel to Jane DePugh.

The profit motive, indecorous though it may seem, may represent the best chance the poor have to reap some of globalization's benefits.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.

We've got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.

Many rogue sites exist to make a profit and others are enormously expensive to maintain. If they don't have the resources to continue stealing intellectual property, they'll wither away.

In Hollywood everything is formatted, everything is compulsory, so therefore we have to follow the law of benefits and profit and money, let us say the law of Hollywood.

There must be some part of Man that is more than his daily round. Some part of him that will use his profit on a matter of no profit.

Non-profit organizations think like non-profit organizations. That's the problem.

Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits.

Once you privatize something, it becomes a for-profit business.

Proving that profit is economically and morally justifiable, rather than the result of exploitation, has been a central preoccupation of neoclassical economists.

History is littered with people who came up with great ideas and saw others profit from them. You need to make sure you don't join their ranks.

And if I lost I would have gone back to 12 weeks of vacation, because I was successful enough that I was spending much more time on non-profit boards and traveling a lot.

Things of greatest profit are set forth with least price. Where the wine is neat there needeth no live blush.

Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization.

Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.

Size of industry, concentration of market, or production notwithstanding, the consumer is best served when the businessman is completely free to pursue his profit goals.

Today, professional football is about profit and making money. But it's not about how much money you spend, it's about how wisely you spend it.

The recklessness with which we sacrifice our sense of decency to maximize profit in the factory farming process sets a pattern for cruelty to our own kind.

There is no debating that, under President Obama, corporate profits are at their highest levels in decades.

A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.

The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

When I see the move of RFID into universities, it concerns me, ... It is sending a message that not only do we not have to worry about privacy but you can profit from it by a career perspective.

There is, in the heart, the hard-rendering profit. As if we were plucking the leaves from the trees.

Sold my soul to the devil, made a profit.

There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.