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• They say you never grow poor taking profits. No, you don't. But neither do you grow rich taking a four-point profit in a bull market. Where I should have made twenty thousand dollars I made two thousand. That was what conservatism did for me.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Should Have, Two, Twenties

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• However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Pride, Equality, Trying

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Three, Chapter XIV, 1840.

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• It is not the job of the Department of Education to maximize profits for the government at the cost of squeezing students who are struggling to get an education.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Jobs, Struggle, Government

  "State AGs Urge Federal Forgiveness Of Student Loans Tied To Dodgy For-Profit Chain" By Shahien Nasiripour, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2015.

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• I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based.

  Brian Mulroney

  Vision, Canada, Environment

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• The bottom line is in heaven!

  Edwin Land

  Business, Heaven, Lines

  Speech at shareholders' meeting of Polaroid Corporation, 26 Apr. 1977

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• Who is so wise as to have a perfect knowledge of all things? Therefore trust not too much to thine own opinion, but be ready also to hear the opinion of others. Thought thine own opinion be good, yet if for the love of God thou foregoest it, and followest that of another, thou shalt the more profit thereby.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Love, Wise, Perfect

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• The gift list is thinking upon His goodness – and this, this pleases Him most! And most profits my own soul and I am beginning, only beginning, to know it. If clinging to His goodness is the highest form of prayer, then this seeing His goodness with a pen, with a shutter, with a word of thanks, these really are the most sacred acts conceivable. The ones anyone can conceive, anywhere, in the midst of anything. Eucharisteo takes us into His love.

  Ann Voskamp

  Prayer, Thinking, Soul

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• Every time I go into a new venture, I find a "rabbi" who has the business acumen to help me understand the mechanics of that industry, the costs involved in developing a product, and what you need to do in order to make a profit.

  Russell Simmons

  New Ventures, Order, Growth

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• It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Benefits, Amusement

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2532, GENERAL PRESS

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• He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.

  Iain Pears

  Villainy

  Iain Pears (1999). “AN Instance of the Fingerpost”, p.112, Penguin

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• It is our duty to look to God's commands, and not to His decrees; to our own duty, and not to His purposes. The decrees of God are a vast ocean, into which many possibly have curiously pried to their own horror and despair; but few or none have ever pried into them to their own profit and satisfaction.

  Thomas Boston

  Ocean, Despair, Looks

  Thomas Boston (1812). “An Illustration of the Doctrines of the Christian Religion, with Respect to Faith and Practice, Upon the Plan of the Assembly's Shorter Catechism, Comprehending a Complete Body of Divinity”, p.177

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• He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.

  Publilius Syrus

  Doe, Sage, Despicable

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 629, 1856.

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• Recently, lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry wrote a prescription drug bill that increased their profits and did nothing to help seniors. The result: seniors are stuck with a confusing prescription drug plan that does little to help them with their costs.

  Marty Meehan

  Senior, Drug, Confusing

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• Interest is theft, Rent Robbery, and Profit Only Another Name for Plunder.

  Ezra Heywood

  Names, Plunder, Theft

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• Whoever has tasted the breath of morning knows that the most invigorating and most delightful hours of then day are commonly spent in bed; though it is the evident intention of nature that we should enjoy and profit by them.

  Robert Southey

  Morning, Bed, Kick Ass

  Robert Southey, Thomas More (1831). “Sir Thomas More: Or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society's: With Plates. In Two Volumes”, p.149

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• Not yet have I found any better method to prosper during the future financial chaos, which is likely to last many years, than to keep your net worth in shares of those corporations that have proven to have the widest profit margins and the most rapidly increasing profits. Earning power is likely to continue to be valuable, especially if diversified among many nations.

  John Templeton

  Years, Profit Margin, Corporations

  "Sir John Templeton: Financial Chaos and Investing" by Janet Tavakoli, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2010.

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• Something out of the ordinary course of business is taking place that creates an investment opportunity. The list of corporate events that can result in big profits for you runs the gamut—spinoffs, mergers, restructurings, rights offerings, bankruptcies, liquidations, asset sales, distributions.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Running, Opportunity, Rights

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• Good information architecture makes users less alienated and suppressed by technology. It simultaneously increases human satisfaction and your company's profits. Very few jobs allow you to do both at the same time, so enjoy.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Jobs, Technology, Information

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• It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight! It is no trick at all to be right on the market. You always find lots of early bulls in bull markets and early bears in bear markets. I've known many men who were right at exactly the right time, and began buying or selling stocks when prices were at the very level which should show the greatest profit. And their experience invariably matched mine--that is, they made no real money out of it. Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon.

  Edwin Lefevre

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• Yes, twenty-seven million in slavery is a lot of people, but it is just .0043 percent of the world's population. Yes, $23 billion a year in slave-made products as services is a lot of money but it is exactly what Americans spent on Valentine's Day in 2005. If humans trafficking generates $32 billion in profits annually, that is still a tiny drop in the ocean of the world economy.

  Kevin Bales

  Valentine, Ocean, Years

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• Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are taxed away

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Progressive Taxation, People

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.84, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Utilities used deregulation to effect a series of mergers limiting competition. In order to accelerate profits, cost cutting ensued, involving the layoff of thousands of utility company employees, including some who were responsible for maintenance of generation, transmission, and distribution systems. A number of investor-owned utilities stopped investing in the maintenance and repair of their own equipment, and, instead, cut costs to enhance the value of their stock rather than spending money to enhance the value of their service.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Money, Cutting, Order

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• Ben and I built Ben & Jerry’s on the idea that business has a responsibility to the community and environment If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It’s a process of innovation If we were going to have a business we were going to have one that was consistent with our values We measured our success not just by how much money we made, but by how much we contributed to the community. It was a two-part bottom line.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Ideas

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• Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

  Xunzi

  Love, Struggle, Yield

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• Transcendent values like trust and integrity literally translate into revenue, profits and prosperity.

  Patricia Aburdene

  Integrity, Prosperity, Revenue

  Patricia Aburdene (2005). “Megatrends Two Thousand and Ten”, Hampton Roads Publishing Company Incorporated

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