Profit Quotes - Page 25

• In the same way that a powerful medicine cures an illness, so illness itself is a medicine to cure passion. And there is much profit of soul in bearing illness quietly and giving thanks to God.

  Syncletica of Alexandria

  Powerful, Passion, Medicine

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• Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as an investment which must bring him the maximum profit obtainable under existing market conditions.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Fellow Man, Commodity

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.88, Open Road Media

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• We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth while millions are hungry and dying. We are committed to living simply and sharing our time, energy, and material resources with those who are in need.

  Nhat Hanh

  Sensual, Dying, Energy

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.110, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The military budget is simply an enormous pork barrel of special privilege, the privileges taking the form of windfall profits, of no-risk profits and, most importantly, of enormous outlays of capital supplied by the Pentagon to arms contractors.

  Walter Karp

  Military, Risk, Special

  Walter Karp (1973). “Indispensable enemies: the politics of misrule in America”

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• Every person whose heart is moved by love and compassion, who deeply and sincerely acts for the benefit of others without concern for fame, profit, social position, or recognition expresses the activity of Chenrezig.

  Bokar Rinpoche

  Heart, Compassion, Benefits

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• No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

  Noah Porter

  Reading, Pleasure

  Noah Porter (1874). “Books and Reading, Or, What Books Shall I Read and how Shall I Read Them?”, p.13

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• When we paint, whether it is on our bodies for ceremony or on bark or canvas for the market, we're not just painting for fun or profit, we're painting as we always have done to demonstrate our continuing link with our country and the rights and responsibilities we have to it.

  Galarrwuy Yunupingu

  Country, Art, Fun

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• Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.

  Blaise Pascal

  Math, Perfect, Damage

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• Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend, rather than the gloss of a sweet-lipped flatterer there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.

  Francis Quarles

  Friendship, Sweet, Lying

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• Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.

  Alexander Herzen

  Progress, Development, Able

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• Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.

  Tom Scholz

  Letting Go, Running, World

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• Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Thieves, Disappear

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• All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on track to earn more than $100 billion before year's end. Yet, at the same time that Big Oil's bottom line is going up, so are Americans' energy costs.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Years, Oil, Track

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• The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business and invest it in tax-exempt securities or to find other lawful methods of avoiding the realization of taxable income. The result is that the sources of taxation are drying up; wealth is failing to carry its share of the tax burden; and capital is being diverted into channels which yield neither revenue to the Government nor profit to the people.

  Andrew Mellon

  Yield, Government, People

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• No salesman can ever guarantee you a grant from any government or non-profit organization.

  Matthew Lesko

  Government, Organization, Guarantees

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• At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Goal, Masters, Patagonia

  Yvon Chouinard (2006). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman”, p.160, Penguin

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• For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of science, and there weren't a lot of profits.

  Rebecca Skloot

  Cells, Done, Research

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• To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.

  Akio Morita

  Important, Cash, Gains

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 157), 1986.

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• Increasingly, I'm inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a profit.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Running, Organization, Entrepreneur

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• All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.

  Charles Cotton

  Spring, Ambition, Blessing

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• What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.

  Frederick Tennyson

  Echoes, Forever, Answers

  Frederick Tennyson, Sappho, Alcaeus (1890). “The Isles of Greece: Sappho and Alcæus”, London Macmillan 1890.

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• The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty ... a man with no loyalty in him, with no sense of love or reverence or devotion due to something outside and above his poor daily life, with its pains and pleasures, profits and losses, is as evil a case as man can be.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Loyalty, Spiritual, Pain

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1926). “The Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne: Prose works”

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• Today, 112 years later, 94% of the people in the world recognize the Coca-Cola logo and product. In 112 years, we can reach the world for profit's sake, but we cannot do it for the glory of God in 2,000 years.

  David Sills

  Years, People, Missionary

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• If one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but if a lot of people are unkind to animals (especially in the name of profit) the cruelty is condoned and will be defended by otherwise intelligent people.

  Ruth Harrison

  Animal, Intelligent, Names

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• Believe me when I tell you that thrift of time will repay you in after life, with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams; and that waste of it will make you dwindle, alike in intellectual and moral stature, beyond your darkest reckoning.

  Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone

  Life, Dream, Believe

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