Profit Quotes - Page 36

• Sold my soul to the devil, made a profit.

  Kevin Rudolf

  Soul, Devil, Made

  Song: Champions

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• Fearlessness begets happiness, which begets creativity, which begets innovation, which begets profits.

  Ben Chestnut

  Creativity, Innovation, Begets

  Twitter post from May 26, 2015

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• It is also painful to see that the struggle against hunger and malnutrition is hindered by market priorities, the primacy of profit, which have reduced foodstuffs to a commodity like any other, subject to speculation, also of a financial nature, The hungry remain, at the street corner, and ask to be recognized as citizens, to receive a healthy diet. We ask for dignity, not for charity.

  Pope Francis

  Nature, Struggle, Priorities

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• From the Anarchist standpoint, these artificial hindrances which are the cause of three main forms of usury-interest, profit, and rent, are, in the order of their importance, monopoly in the control of the circulating medium-money and credit, private property in land not based on occupancy and use, patent rights and copyrights, and tariffs.

  Laurance Labadie

  Order, Land, Rights

  Laurance Labadie (1978). “Selected Essays”

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• Two of the biggest drivers of airline profit are change fees and baggage fees.

  Paul Hudson

  Change, Two, Baggage

  "Ways to avoid huge baggage fees" by Harriet Edleson by Harriet Edleson, www.foxnews.com. April 14, 2015.

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• You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a profit, and no artist is less in charge of how their work is presented than an actor, the appeal of Vince was that within a great naturalism, he can convey fierce intelligence, complex emotion, and a real warmth married to a real edge, strength and vulnerability and danger and humor. There are essential contradictions at work that makes him fascinating to watch.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Strength, Real, Artist

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• ... these are the two factors that lead to the destruction of our environment: money and time-or to say it another way, greed and haste. The question is, or seems to be, are we going to have an immediate profit and an immediate saving of time, or are we going to do what we really should do as God's children?

  Francis Schaeffer

  Children, Two, Greed

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• Japanese tend to put sales and market share first. They make many products with the aim of raising sales. But then profits decline, and companies find themselves falling into debt... I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first.

  Fujio Mitarai

  Fall, People, Debt

  "Online Extra: Q&A with Canon's Fujio Mitarai". Interview with Irene M. Kunii, www.bloomberg.com. February 11, 2002.

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• There is very little difference between speculation and investment. The only difference is basically that investments are successful speculations because if you successfully anticipate the future you make a speculative profit.

  George Soros

  Successful, Differences, Littles

  George Soros (2014). “The Tragedy of the European Union: Disintegration or Revival?”, p.84, PublicAffairs

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• Today, professional football is about profit and making money. But it's not about how much money you spend, it's about how wisely you spend it.

  John Riggins

  Football, Today, Making Money

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I'm not pro-war. But I think war has been the dominant condition of humankind, and peace has been the anomaly - certainly sustained periods of peace that profit great masses of people - and I think war has worked, even awful hellish wars: worked to staunch fascist aggression in Europe, worked to preserve the Union after secession in the United States, etc. Not always, maybe not often, but to say never is to reject history in favor of a wishful unreality.

  Philip Gourevitch

  War, Thinking, Europe

  "Ask the Author Live: Philip Gourevitch on Osama Bin Laden". The New Yorker Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. May 4, 2011.

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• I don't see much of a future for this planet. I think it's a cursed planet. The boundaries we've drawn between nations and the profit motive - those two factors have, in my opinion, brought us to the point where almost nothing can stop the utter destruction of the environment and all our earthly life-support systems.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Two, Support Systems

  Interview with Sam Merrill, reprints.longform.org. January 1982.

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• We [H&M] believe that growth, profit and sustainability are not contradictory. Our ambition is to be a fair and profitable company, because otherwise we couldn't open any new stores, we couldn't produce new designs and no new jobs would be created. H&M would soon cease to exist.

  Karl-Johan Persson

  Jobs, Believe, Ambition

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• Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
  vacation with pay. Want more
  of everything ready-made. Be afraid
  to know your neighbors and to die.
  And you will have a window in your head.
  Not even your future will be a mystery
  any more. Your mind will be punched in a card
  and shut away in a little drawer.
  When they want you to buy something
  they will call you. When they want you
  to die for profit they will let you know.

  Wendell Berry

  Vacation, Mind, Cards

  Wendell Berry (2013). “A Country of Marriage: Poems”, p.16, Counterpoint Press

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• In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Blunders, Committed, Constructive

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.90, New Directions Publishing

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• Derivative trading with mark-to-market accounting degenerates into mark-to-model. Two firms make a big derivative trade and the accountants on both sides show a large profit from the same trade.

  Charlie Munger

  Two, Degenerates, Sides

  Source: www.calculatedriskblog.com

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• We should totally ban for-profit charters. For-profit's first obligation is to its stockholders, not to its children.

  Diane Ravitch

  Children, Firsts, Bans

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There are a lot of little tricks you can do to inject a bit more time into the day. Most important is limiting yourself to a 40 hour week, not working 50 hours or 60 or 70. It's just crazy. It's actually irresponsible to you and irresponsible to your family and friends. Why should your employer's profits be more important than your own family? You're not even going to get any of the profits - all you get is not losing your job. It's a very negative system.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Jobs, Crazy, Important

  "How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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• Society has to be structured such that there are checks and balances, so that it can't be manipulated, for instance, for the profit of just some multinational company who's going to get rich on trying to legislate the environment.

  Greg Graffin

  Balance, Trying, Environment

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As trans advocacy has institutionalized and developed, the context of the undemocratic nature of US non-profits and the ways that white, wealthy individuals can intensely influence the directions of advocacy have increasingly come to the surface for trans activists.

  Dean Spade

  White, Way, Influence

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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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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