Profit Driven Quotes

#1. There isn't any question that Hollywood is profit driven. Anybody that thinks it isn't is a fool. It's a business. Hollywood was never philanthropy. The only purpose it had was making money; the only purpose it still has is to make money.

Sydney Pollack

#2. Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.

Wally Lamb

#3. Businesses can lead with their values and make money, too. You don't have to simply be purely profit-driven. You can integrate social and environmental concerns into a business, be a caring business, be a generous business and still do very well financially.

Jerry Greenfield

#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. Your nation is the richest, most powerful on the Earth, and it has one of the highest infant mortality rates. Why? Because poor people cannot afford quality pre-natal and post-natal care - and your society is profit driven.

Neale Donald Walsch

#6. The point of business was to make just enough money to keep going, not to create a monster of productivity that chained a person to the wheels of power and stifled all creativity and imagination. Business should not be profit-driven; it should be idea-driven.

James Conaway

#7. 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

#8. Every man is like the company he wont to keep.

Euripides

#9. While I think it's very important that Marco Rubio and Senator [Ted] Cruz have contributed as senators ... there's no doubt in my mind that being a governor is far, far better preparation for the ultimate responsibility as president of the United States.

Tom Ridge

#10. priority. FIG. 23 In business, profit and productivity are also driven by priority and purpose. Personal productivity is the building block of all business profit. The two are inseparable. A business can't have unproductive people yet magically still have an immensely

Gary Keller

#11. The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.

Marcus Aurelius

#12. She wondered if she had grown obsessed with sex. She admitted to thinking about it almost all the time ... "And if I'm not thinking about sex, I'm thinking about death," she added bitterly. "Sometimes both at the same time.

D.M. Thomas

#13. Regardless of whether people have free will, human flourishing requires that they live in an environment in which they are treated as if they did.

Charles Murray

#14. People who are driven by their values will overcome hurdles, difficulties, and obstacles in ways that people driven only by profit will never be able to

Simon S. Tam

#15. All progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority.

Margaret Benson

#16. If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough!

Charles Baudelaire

#17. Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

Eddie Cantor

#18. Always remember this, Henri. Men trade for profit. They are driven by greed. But debt is about fear, and fear is stronger than greed. The true power, the weapon that defeats all others, is debt. Fools search for gold. The wise man studies debt. That is the key to all business.

Edward Rutherfurd

#19. From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the U.S. economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing.

Noam Chomsky

#20. The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.

Confucius

#21. People who are driven by love will overcome hardships and hurdles in ways that people who are only driven by profit never can.

Simon S. Tam

#22. Cybercriminals are usually driven by profit, while cyberterrorists are driven by ideology.

Evgeny Morozov

#23. Studios will tell you that they can't turn a profit on female-driven entertainment. Which is like the Gap saying no one is buying clothes anymore. No. No one is buying your clothes.

Emma McLaughlin

#24. The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

Todd Gitlin

#25. We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.

Kofi Annan

#26. Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.

Barbara Kingsolver

#27. It's hard to believe, but anything can happen. Accidents do happen, unfortunately, it happened at the worst time.

Tiger Woods

#28. I truly believe that capitalism was created to help people live better lives, but sadly over the years it has lost its way a bit. The short-term focus on profit has driven most businesses to forget about the important long-term role they have in taking care of people and the planet.

Richard Branson

#29. In this life you will have some trials and tribulations. You cannot allow what happens to you to dictate who and what you become. Make a decision to do better and be better.

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.