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• I truly believe that capitalism was created to help people live better lives, but sadly over the years it has lost its way a bit. The short-term focus on profit has driven most businesses to forget about the important long-term role they have in taking care of people and the planet.

  Richard Branson

  Believe, Years, Long

  "Richard Branson: 'Capitalism has lost its way'' by Graham Snowdon, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2011.

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• Show me who makes a profit from war, and I'll show you how to stop the war.

  Henry Ford

  War, Show Me, Shows

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• While under precapitalistic conditions superior men were the masters on whom the masses of the inferior had to attend, under capitalism the more gifted and more able have no means to profit from their superiority other than to serve to the best of their abilities the wishes of the majority of the less gifted.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Equality, Men

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Money, method, and the market process: essays”, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• In order to profit from this path [of prayer] and ascend to the dwelling places we desire, the important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so, do that which best stirs you to love.

  Teresa of Avila

  Love, Prayer, Thinking

  Teresa of Avila (2011). “The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, vol 2”, p.146, ICS Publications

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• ...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits.

  Smedley Butler

  Uncles, War, Dark

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• It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country...but the profits...skyrocket.

  Smedley Butler

  Country, Dark, Age

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• Throw away holiness and wisdom, and people will be a hundred times happier. Throw away morality and justice, and people will do the right thing. Throw away industry and profit, and there won't be any thieves. If these three aren't enough, just stay at the center of the circle and let all things take their course.

  Laozi

  Circles, People, Justice

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• Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.

  William E. Gladstone

  Dream, Time Management, Sanguine

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• Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?

  Ed Wood

  Movie, Successful, Thinking

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• We need to take excellent care of our customers, and do so at a profit.

  Gerard Arpey

  Needs, Care, Brilliant

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• The smell of factory farms . . . many notice these places only when the odours reach their homes, affecting their own quality of life. We create these animals for our profit and pleasure, playing with their genes, violating their dignity as living creatures, forcing them to lie and live in their own urine and excrement, turning pens into penitentiaries and frustrating their every desire except what is needed to keep them breathing and breeding. And then we complain about the smell.

  Matthew Scully

  Lying, Home, Animal

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• Research is subordinated (not to a long-term social benefit) but to an immediate commercial profit. Currently, disease (not health) is one of the major sources of profit for the pharmaceutical industry, and the doctors are willing agents of those profits.

  Pierre Bosquet

  Health, Doctors, Medicine

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• Corporations, government entities and media conglomerates-fear the ideology of an animal liberationist could catch hold and topple them from their golden thrones, reducing their animal product profits.

  Charlotte Laws

  Animal, Government, Media

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• Furthermore, the apostolic life does not exclude contemplation but encompasses it and profits by it to know better the eternal truths it must proclaim

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Doe, Contemplation

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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• Every time I started a business and the people told me I was an idiot, I ended up making a lot of money. Si Redd used to say me, "Boy, you gotta be where they ain't." What that means is that you find areas of low competition because high competition means lower margins, and lower margins mean less profit. So we were always looking for places where we can be unique. If the thinking is out-of-the-box, people may not understand because they have not seen it before... Therefore you are an idiot.

  Bob Davids

  Mean, Boys, Unique

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• A person can't brood over one mistake, or waste time feeling sorry for himself, or take on any sort of persecution complex. Today I realize that once you have made a mistake, you must accept it, profit by it, and then totally dismiss it from your mind.

  Bart Starr

  Sports, Sorry, Mistake

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• If it's wrong to wreck the planet, it's wrong to profit from the wreckage.

  Bill McKibben

  Wrecks, Wreckage, Planets

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

  Shaffi Mather

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• I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Believe, Medical Insurance, Reform

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• The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.

  Walter Ulbricht

  Guiding Principles, Needs, Goods

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• By definition startups usually do not turn a profit.

  Kevin Harrington

  Definitions, Turns

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• Christianity doesn't come into it. George Bush and Tony Blair are not Christians. Religious people believe in the prophets, peace be upon them. Bush believes in the profits and how to get a piece of them. So don't ever confuse this with a war of civilizations.

  George Galloway

  Christian, Religious, War

  CBC "The Hour" with George Stroumboulopoulos, November 20, 2006.

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• We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so... we used to rotate crops back in the day and, you know, who cares if you're going to make a profit if everybody's too dead or glowing in the dark to be able to purchase anything.

  Michael Berryman

  Home, Dark, Glowing

  Interview with Vyeto Malesh, marsdust.net. January 22, 2017.

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• Profit is the celebration of service.

  Denis Waitley

  Celebration

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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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