Top 29 Profit Motive Quotes
#1. Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.
Jane Fonda
#2. there is a consensus in Brazil that the profit motive does not always guarantee the best outcome for society as a whole and that some supervision is therefore necessary.
Larry Rohter
#3. The profit motive is not only fundamental to our ability to reward shareholders and pay employees; it's fundamental to excellent journalism. Far from corrupting the craft, profits enhance it. Expansion drives diversity and diversity protects and strengthens our craft.
Lachlan Murdoch
#4. Actions that exemplify the limitations of a singular devotion to the profit motive, also draw a troublesome distinction between what is legal and what is moral.
Usman W. Chohan
#5. Personal initiative, competitive selection, the profit motive, corrected by failure and the infinite process of good housekeeping and the personal ingenuity-here constitute the life of a free society.
Winston Churchill
#6. That, to me, is a kind of brilliant environmental ju-jitsu - using the energy of the market and the profit-motive to get businesses to invest in preserving and improving natural systems.
Ramez Naam
#7. 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
#8. People who live according to the pure code of honor are not governed by the profit motive; they are governed by the thymotic urge, the quest for recognition. They seek the sort of glory that can be won only by showing strength in confrontation with death.
David Brooks
#9. Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.
Tom Scholz
#10. I believe that the human motive to share is very powerful. The human motive to profit is also very powerful, and I think that the profit motive and the sharing motive are not exclusive.
Tim O'Reilly
#11. However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution.
Steven Pinker
#12. Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!
Peter Drucker
#13. The profit motive promotes economic growth by creating better products at cheaper prices.
Mark Skousen
#14. The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#15. People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.
Philip Yancey
#16. When shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an economic support of every human right we possess and without it, all rights would disappear.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#17. The profit motive, indecorous though it may seem, may represent the best chance the poor have to reap some of globalization's benefits.
James Surowiecki
#18. We in America count on the profit motive to get people to do the right thing. That's our basic American notion when it comes to business.
Chris Matthews
#19. There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.
Dorothy Parker
#20. Animosity towards the merchant class has been around for centuries. Why? The goal of making a profit is quite obviously a self-serving motive. Other occupations, while equally self-serving, are better able to hide their motives.
James Cook
#21. There's nothing decent about what we're going to do tonight. So, let go and show me who you are."
~Raphael
Tina Folsom
#23. My mom and my dad never pushed me into performing. They never prohibited me from trying anything, or being anything. They never restricted me in any way. For which I'll be forever grateful.
Heath Ledger
#24. they think about Tomorrow, that is to say, simply, a new today;
Jean-Paul Sartre
#25. The creative instinct has always been a stronger motive than mere profit to do truly new and revolutionary things.
Phil Karn
#26. Dutch liberator William the Silent: "It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake; it is not necessary to succeed in order to persevere.
Clara Claiborne Park
#27. Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
Andre Gide
#29. Should we still be friends when it could be more profitable if otherwise?
Toba Beta
