Profit Quotes - Page 4

• To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family?

  Billy Graham

  Family, Men, World

  Billy Graham (2010). “Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.

  Oscar Wilde

  Home, Land, Giving

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.27, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• This is nothing more than a public land grab for private profit. The BLM is literally giving this away to corporations…This may be out in the desert today, but tomorrow it could be in your backyard…Already over a dozen projects are proposed in San Diego and Imperial County.

  Robert Scheid

  Land, Giving, Backyards

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• I thank God to have it. I thank God that I finished it. And I hope that I will live enough to take profit of it.

  Max Azria

  Thank God, Enough, Finished

  "A Fashionable Life: Max & Lubov Azria" by Marshall Heyman, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 12, 2009.

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• The for-profit education industry has proven equal to the task.

  Steve Eisman

  Tasks, Equal, Industry

  "Steve Eisman’s Next Big Short: For-Profit Colleges" by Andy Kroll, www.motherjones.com. May 27, 2010.

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• We need to help companies find profit opportunities abroad, not photo opportunities.

  Rajiv Shah

  Opportunity, Needs, Helping

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• In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.

  Carlos Ghosn

  People, Function, Performing

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• Profit is what we have left after we make a donation to a worthwhile cause.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Causes, Donation, Worthwhile

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• Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Business, Four, Pay

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• All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well.

  John Stuart Blackie

  Truth, Men, Use

  John Stuart Blackie (1877). “The Wise Men of Greece: In a Series of Dramatic Dialogues”

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• For little boys are rancorous
  When robbed of any myth,
  And spiteful and cantankerous
  To all their kin and kith.
  But little girls can draw conclusions
  And profit from their lost illusions.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Girl, Children, Boys

  Phyllis McGinley (1951). “A Short Walk from the Station”

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• The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.

  Moses Mendelssohn

  Process, Theory, Folly

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• Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.

  Johannes Tauler

  Blessed, Heart, Long

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• Big food companies have their priorities, which include selling cheap, unhealthy foods at high profits.

  Jared Polis

  Priorities, Unhealthy Food, Selling

  "Rep. Polis gets crusty about pizza" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. May 15, 202.

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• Obviously the best way to retain the most profit is to not give any of it away. That's something that you certainly learn through the years.

  John Petrucci

  Years, Giving, Way

  Source: thehub.musiciansfriend.com

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• Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.

  David Ricardo

  Happiness, Happy, Country

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo ...”, p.474

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• If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It's a process of innovation.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Opportunity, Innovation, Mind

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• At long as a stock is acting right, and the market is right, do not be in a hurry to take profits. One should never permit speculative ventures to run into investments.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Running, Acting Right, Long

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• Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.

  Tim Robbins

  War, Iraq, Cost

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• And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made.

  Tom Scholz

  Animal, Thinking, America

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• Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Special, Advertising, Realizing

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.159, Vintage

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• Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. G.B. Stern "If you count all your assets, you always show a profit."

  Robert Quillen

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Being Thankful

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• There are more ways than one to measure profits and losses.

  Randy Pausch

  Loss, Way, Profit And Loss

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• Moments are the elements of profit

  Karl Marx

  Elements, Moments

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.267, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Past, Bankers, Banking

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