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• Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade. We are selling bread at the price of jewels... Let us take the profit, the private economic profit, out of medicine, and purify our profession of rapacious individualism... Let us say to the people not 'How much have you got?' but 'How best can we serve you?

  Norman Bethune

  Jewels, Luxury, Medicine

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• By definition startups usually do not turn a profit.

  Kevin Harrington

  Definitions, Turns

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• For what will it profit men that a more prudent distribution and use of riches make it possible for them to gain even the whole world, if thereby they suffer the loss of their own souls? What will it profit to teach them sound principles in economics, if they permit themselves to be so swept away by selfishness, by unbridled and sordid greed, that hearing the commandments of the Lord, they do all things contrary.

  Pope Pius XI

  Loss, Men, Greed

  Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI)., Pope Pius XI. (1931). “On Social Reconstruction: Encyclical Letter”

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

  Shaffi Mather

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• We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.

  Chris Hedges

  Deception, World, Corporations

  Chris Hedges (2014). “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle”, p.52, Nation Books

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

  Clement of Alexandria

  Would Be, Righteous, Piety

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• To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Greatness, Men, Fortune

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• I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that young people who want to understand the world can profit from the works of Plato and Socrates, the behaviour of the three Thomases, Aquinas, More and Jefferson - the austere analyses of Immanuel Kant and the political leadership of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt.

  James A. Michener

  Plato, Thinking, People

  "The World Is My Home". Book by James A. Michener, 1991.

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• The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.

  Plato

  Children, Parent, Use

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.235, Aegitas

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• What does it profit a 78-year-old woman to sit around the pool in a bikini if she cannot feed herself?

  Erma Bombeck

  Years, Bikinis, Doe

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• The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Honor, Principles, Credit

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• Big Pharma needs sick people to prosper. Patients, not healthy people, are their customers. If everybody was cured of a particular illness or disease, pharmaceutical companies would lose 100% of their profits on the products they sell for that ailment. What all this means is because modern medicine is so heavily intertwined with the financial profits culture, it’s a sickness industry more than it is a health industry.

  James Morcan

  Mean, Medicine, People

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Done, Deeds, Action

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• Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned is six, turned again it is seven and threepence, and so on, till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. He that kills a breeding sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Might, Six

  Benjamin Franklin (1855). “The select works of Benjamin Franklin”, p.360

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• The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce products that meet consumer demands at lowest cost, or else be driven from the market. It is a profit-and-loss system. Naturally, existing businesses generally prefer to keep out competitors in other ways. That is why the business community, despite its rhetoric, has so often been a major enemy of truly free enterprise.

  Milton Friedman

  Business, Loss, Community

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• There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population. The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed. This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Party, Mean, Government

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• Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.

  Han Suyin

  Believe, Race, Dominance

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• In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.

  John Naisbitt

  People, Tools, Growing

  John Naisbitt (1988). “Re-Inventing the Corporation”, Random House Value Publishing

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• Every good citizen should be willing to devote a brief time during some one day in the year, when necessary, to the making up of a listing of his income for taxes to contribute to his Government, not the scriptural tithe, but a small percentage of his net profits.

  Cordell Hull

  Government, Years, One Day

  Remarks in the House, Congressional Record, vol. 50, p. 505, April 26, 1913.

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• The question to ask is whether the risk of traveling to space is worth the benefit. The answer is an unequivocal yes, but not only for the reasons that are usually touted by the space community: the need to explore, the scientific return, and the possibility of commercial profit. The most compelling reason, a very long-term one, is the necessity of using space to protect Earth and guarantee the survival of humanity.

  William E. Burrows

  Moon, Space, Compelling Reason

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• If you had told me when I was at high school that one day I would be working for a for-profit company, let alone running one, I would have said you were crazy. But I am interested in how you can empower individuals to make change, and Causes is doing just that.

  Joe Greene

  Running, Crazy, School

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• What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those who are unable to help themselves and then to fasten some moral superscription upon it. This I loathe so much that I cannot conceivably explain how much it is.

  Malcolm Lowry

  Men, Weakness, Helping

  Malcolm Lowry (1965). “Selected letters”

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• Thou shalt understand that it is a science most profitable, and passing all other sciences, for to learn to die. For a man to know that he shall die, that is common to all men; as much as there is no man that may ever live or he hath hope or trust thereof; but thou shalt find full few that hath this cunning to learn to die. I shall give thee the mystery of this doctrine; the which shall profit thee greatly to the beginning of ghostly health, and to a stable fundamental of all virtues.

  Henry Suso

  Men, Giving, Doctrine

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• Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Real, Men, Hype

  "Why Do We All Praise Startups When They Receive Funding?" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. October 19, 201.

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• Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Crosses, Aspect

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