Corporate Profit Quotes

#1. I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit.

Lisa Bonet

#2. Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First Amendment veil in order to exploit children for the sake of corporate profit.

Connie Sellecca

#3. There are many who condemn my crew and I for taking the law into our own hands and for taking on the barons of corporate profit.

Paul Watson

#4. Many profit-driven corporate strategies are based on fashion, planned obsolescence, unneeded upgrades, and masterful emotional manipulation --marketing--causing people to continuously replace goods which are still in good working order.

Jacob Lund Fisker

#5. Sometimes when I have an idea, and I say, 'Okay, let's - it will be great, maybe, if I sing in English, a couple of songs.' Now, the record company and everybody's like, 'No way, you have to sing in Spanish.' And that's, you know, really good for me.

Juanes

#6. Coming age is the age of knowledge. However rich, poor or powerful a country be, if they want to move ahead, only knowledge can lead them to that path.

Narendra Modi

#7. The style of flirtation specific to classrooms was of service to the students all their lives.

Renata Adler

#8. Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

Eliot Spitzer

#9. Do not elicit your child's political opinions. He doesn't know any more than you do.

Fran Lebowitz

#10. I like to bring people together so we don't waste opportunities and resources and keep doing the wrong things when we know better. Corporate America makes great things and things that can hurt us. They have to be part of the solutions. There's nothing to say you don't make a profit by doing good.

Teresa Heinz

#11. I usually stay in on Sunday nights. I'm not much of a party person.

Robert Wilson

#12. We've lost sight of our role in the region and our view of our colleagues in the region.

John Hewson

#13. Machines will never be able to give the thinking process a model of thought itself, since machines are not mortal. What gives humans access to the symbolic domain of value and meaning is the fact that we die.

Regis Debray

#14. A reader, encountering a sentence about a barking dog, would have to dwell on why that choice was made at that moment. Everything in a novel is explicitly chosen, whereas some of what a film captures feels incidental, according to the vagaries of photography and sound recording.

Jonathan Lethem

#15. It is never too late to become reasonable and wise.

Immanuel Kant

#16. The Petition of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Chapman Johnson, Joseph C. Cabell, James Breckenridge, John Hartwell Cocke, and Robert Taylor the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia ... Respectfully representeth ... That the value of science to a republican people, the security it ...

Thomas Jefferson

#17. When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.'

Mitch Daniels

#18. Profit maximization may be the 'end' but the means to achieve this end, is what matters, and that distinguishes a company in the corporate world and the market

Henrietta Newton Martin

#19. When consumers know things, they tend to make informed choices, and that could affect corporate profits. I'm sorry, but your right to know is always going to be outweighed by their right to hide it from you.

Bill Maher

#20. A civilian-based diplomacy supports noncommercial, nonprofit, and publicly-subsidized media to counteract the corporate-controlled, for-profit, private media that dominate political discourse; and works to place media control, ownership, and lobbying at the center of public policy debate.

Nancy Snow

#21. In the movie 'Wall Street' I play Gordon Gekko, a greedy corporate executive who cheated to profit while innocent investors lost their savings. The movie was fiction, but the problem is real.

Michael Douglas

#22. She almost never said his name. Because it made the dreams too real. Because it made the loneliness too tangible when she woke up.

Dianna Hardy

#23. I propose that the forces of corporate totalitarianism are deliberately destroying this entire world in order to sell their simulated version of it back to us at a profit.

Diane Harvey

#24. A small smirk found its way to my lips. Luke Skywalker could suck it. He had nothing on Shayna.

Cecy Robson

#25. The only ones to profit from illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing are the owners of the fishing fleets who remain hidden behind veils of corporate secrecy.

Achim Steiner

#26. I believe that it is the responsibility of everyone in corporate life to help with the funding of non-profit organizations.

Frederick Lenz

#27. I'm a very practical person.

Ridley Scott

#28. When it comes to Vought, or any corporate outfit really, all that counts to them is profit. They send their kids on planes built by the lowest bidder. They travel on the fuckin, things themselves. Company jets or first class, they still go on 'em. Safety costs. Money's God.

Garth Ennis

#29. Certain things in Mozart will and can never be excelled.

Richard Wagner

#30. The foremost corporate responsibility is to serve others so well you produce a profit.

James Cook

#31. A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of multinational corporations.

Suzy Kassem

#32. The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.

Milton Friedman

#33. There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are.

Jonathan Kozol

#34. Profit sharing in the form of stock distributions to workers would help to democratize the ownership of America's vast corporate wealth which is today appallingly undemocratic and unhealthy.

Walter Reuther