Quotes on Profit Motive

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

People ask me: ‘What is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space. It could be called jazz. It could be called hip-hop. It could be called blues, or rock, or beat. It could be called techno. It's just a new idea. For me, it was punk rock. That was my entrance to this idea of the new ideas being able to be presented in an environment that wasn't being dictated by a profit motive.

However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution.

We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it.

We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.