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• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  L. Neil Smith

  Jobs, Believe, Media

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• I don't think that Mitt Romney can legitimately say that he learned anything about how to create jobs in the LBO (leveraged buyout) business. The LBO business is about how to strip cash out of old, long-in-the-tooth companies and how to make short-term profits. All the jobs that he talks about came from Staples. That was a very early venture stage deal. That, you know they got out of long before it got to its current size.

  David Stockman

  Jobs, Thinking, Long

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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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• Gov. Romney is a proven and effective leader with vast experience in the business world, in the non-profit world and in government. And in every capacity in which he has ever served, he has been effective as a leader.

  Jim Talent

  Government, Leader, World

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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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• Business is many things, the least of which is the balance sheet. It is a fluid, ever changing, living thing, sometimes building to great peaks, sometimes falling to crumbled lumps.

  Harold Geneen

  Business, Fall, Balance

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• Broadcast TV is still the mothership and it will be for the foreseeable future. Audiences may be declining slightly but revenues are going up and profits are going up.

  Leslie Moonves

  May, Tvs, Revenue

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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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• Any student of the New Testament eager to understand its Greco-Roman setting will profit greatly from this excellent book. I commend it highly for its up-to-date perspectives and usefulness. Jeffers writes with a breadth of expertise on the Greco-Roman world that few New Testament specialists can match.

  Craig S. Keener

  Book, Writing, Perspective

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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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• For the corporation executives, the military metaphysic often coincides with their interest in a stable and planned flow of profit; it enables them to have their risk underwritten by public money; it enables them reasonably to expect that they can exploit for private profit now and later, the risky research developments paid for by public money. It is, in brief, a mask of the subsidized capitalism from which they extract profit and upon which their power is based.

  C. Wright Mills

  Military, Risk, Flow

  "The Causes of World War Three". Book by C. Wright Mills, 1958.

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• I've made a profit from everything I have done in life.

  Magnus

  Done, Made

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• One metric catches people. We prefer businesses that drown in cash. An example of a different business is construction equipment. You work hard all year and there is your profit sitting in the yard. We avoid businesses like that. We prefer those that can write us a check at the end of the year.

  Charlie Munger

  Writing, Hard Work, Years

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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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• Profit is not an event. It's a habit.

  Mike Michalowicz

  Events, Habit

  "Mike Michalowicz: Turning Life Lessons Into Bestselling Business Advice". Interview with Tim Knox, interviewingauthors.com.

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

  Jesse Ventura

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• There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses.

  Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

  Loss, Risk, Investment

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• Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.

  Ian MacKaye

  People, Community, Playing Music

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• The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.

  Ian MacKaye

  Moving, Rivers, People

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 5, 1999.

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• And were in the middle of a perfect storm. These days, government social services are being bad-mouthed and defunded. The non-profit world is looking more and more like the for-profit world. The growing gap between rich and poor makes most of us very anxious about where we stand.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Government, Perfect, Storm

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• I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.

  Charles Koch

  Motivational, Money, Business

  "Koch Responds to Buffett’s Call for Tax Hikes" by Daniel Foster, www.nationalreview.com. August 19, 2011.

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• Profits are part of the mechanism by which society decides what it wants to see produced.

  Henry Wallich

  Business, Want, Mechanism

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