Profit Quotes - Page 17

• The National Bank at profit sells road maps for the soul.

  Bob Dylan

  Soul, Maps, Politics

  Song: Tombstone Blues, Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

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• My grandmother was the daughter of pioneers, as was my grandfather, and they were farmers. And they worked the land, and there is a grounded value system that becomes inherent in knowing what's real and what's powerful. And understanding the material nature of not only man, but beasts and profit and all of those things that you fight for.

  Brenda Strong

  Daughter, Powerful, Real

  "'Dallas' Star Brenda Strong Talks Ann Ewing and the Resilience of Larry Hagman". Interview with Jethro Nededog, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 6, 2011.

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• There is no profit in deceit. An honest man knows revenge is not sweet.

  Robert Palmer

  Sweet, Revenge, Men

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• The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Art, Britain, Establishment

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• The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

  Todd Gitlin

  Desire, Moguls, Driven

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• Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Talking, Greed, Excess

  "He's all the rage" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2002.

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• Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness and self-possession, to the winning of knowledge and insight, to pleasant living in this very life, to the realization of the fruit of release by knowledge. What is that one thing: It is mindfulness centered on the body.

  Gautama Buddha

  Philosophy, Winning, Self

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• A successful economy depends on the proliferation of the rich, on creating a large class of risk-taking men who are willing to shun the easy channels of a comfortable life in order to create new enterprise, win huge profits, and invest them again.

  George Gilder

  Successful, Winning, Men

  George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.332, Regnery Publishing

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• Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.

  Alan Ladd

  Percent, Jimmy Stewart, Jimmy

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• I believe that the profits will come from the quality of your creative products. Since the beginning, I've always wanted to develop a self-feeding circle of creative productions: the positive financial returns from one show would be used to develop and create a new show, and so on.

  Guy Laliberte

  Believe, Self, Circles

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• Online business models are still evolving. New and different products and services pop up every day. This gives rise to supporting products and services. A business can make substantial profit by helping others execute their plans for making money.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Helping Others, Giving, Different

  Marc Ostrofsky (2012). “Get Rich Click: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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

  John Phillips

  Pain, Yield, Littles

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• Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It's more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society.

  Jimmy Reid

  Vocabulary, Race, Ducks

  "Still irresistible, a working-class hero's finest speech". www.independent.co.uk. August 12, 2010.

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• The American people ask, and legitimately so, why should we carry the heavy burden to ensure international peace and stability. You also profit from it, so you should also take your share in the burden. That's Secretary Gates's message. I share that message.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  People, Messages, Burden

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Toy companies aren't interested in ideology, they want to sell toys. If they would sell a toy that both boys and girls would buy, it doubles profits.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Girl, Boys, Want

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• The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

  Frederick Soddy

  Banking, Today, Whole

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• Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities.

  Maurice Strong

  Past, Opportunity, Practice

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• Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home.

  Ted Strickland

  Home, Risk, Pioneers

  "Ted Strickland Speech Text: Read The Former Governor’s DNC Remarks". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 04, 2012.

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• Many have said much about love, but you will find love itself only if you seek it among the disciples of Christ. For only they have true Love as love's teacher. 'Though I have the gift of prophecy', says St. Paul, 'and know all mysteries and all knowledge? and have no love, it profits me nothing' (I Cor. 13:2-3). He who possesses love possesses God Himself, for 'God is love' (I Jn. 4:8). To Him be glory throughout the ages. Amen.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Teacher, Finding Love

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• I've always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had always been rapping.

  Meek Mill

  Rap, Making Money, Made

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• Never let making a profit stand in the way of doing the right thing.

  George W. Jenkins

  Way, Doing The Right Thing, Right Thing

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• Amway gets people into a new life of excitement, promise, profit, and hope.

  Jay Van Andel

  People, Promise, New Life

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• People who get to express their voice are paid by the people who make profit from it. So they're going to make you believe you have to spend your money buying these products otherwise you won't be happy. This is really wrong. Especially the implication it carries.

  Michel Gondry

  Believe, Voice, People

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• There is plenty of room to make a profit in a zero-carbon economy; but the profit motive is not going to be the midwife for that great transformation.

  Naomi Klein

  Zero, Rooms, Transformation

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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

  Jesse Ventura

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