Quotes on Profit

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

When each of these three elements of vision-concern for excellence, for people and for the wider environment-are present, business is transformed from a tool for making profits into a creative, humane experiment for improving life.

Civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his particular knowledge may serve to assist others unknown to him in achieving their ends that men as members of civilized society can pursue their individual ends so much more successfully than they could alone.

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

We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism-if we can stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or at least make a living, serving people who are suffering from the worst inequities. ... You have more than we had; you must start sooner, and carry on longer.

The proper man understands equity, the small man profits.

How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.

Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them.

Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess They scatter and unloose it from their bond, And so, by hoping more, they have but less; Or, gaining more, the profit of excess Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain, That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.

The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.

You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse

The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.

As in the past, the costs and risks of the coming phases of the industrial economy were to be socialized, with eventual profits privatized.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays.

We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers.

Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their losses…in effect, they tax you for their accidents, bungling, boondoggles, and mismanagement, just like a government. We should be able to deselect them.

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.