Profiting Quotes

#1. Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change. With Wrigley chewing gum, it's the lack of change that appeals to me. I don't think it is going to be hurt by the Internet. That's the kind of business I like.

Warren Buffett

#2. I'm done with all the stupid shit. I'm done with politicians, the rich taxing the poor. I'm done with organised religions, profiting off their prophets. I'm done with pop culture, making everything consumable. I'm done, I'm done, I'm done

Timothy Decker

#3. How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.

Lucille Ball

#4. Profiting from opportunities is success. Profiting from adversity is greatness.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'

Conan O'Brien

#6. Soul-sucking vampires who were profiting from the increased sense of helplessness in society.

Henning Mankell

#7. I remember when I was young, in the north, they went to the grammar school little children: they came from thence great lubbers: always learning, and little profiting: learning without book everything, understanding within the book little or nothing.

Roger Ascham

#8. The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.

Johnnetta B. Cole

#9. In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#10. I think my generation has had an unbelievably easy time profiting from the world that was made for us by our parents and grandparents. We are essentially a rather frivolous generation. The Blair government was my generation's shot at power. It had some good things, but it had some flaws.

Sebastian Faulks

#11. Our ignorance of the future has been wisely ordained of Heaven. For unless man were to be like God and know everything, it is better that he should know nothing. If he knows one fact only, instead of profiting by it he will assuredly land in the soup.

John Buchan

#12. I think legislation needs to put an end to doctors profiting on businesses to which they can funnel patients - that is business, not medicine. If you try to call it medicine, then it is corruption. Without legislation, it will keep happening.

Abraham Verghese

#13. We shouldn't be profiting from our students who are drowning in debt while giving a great deal to the banks. That's just wrong.

Elizabeth Warren

#14. She had once more shown her talent for profiting by the unexpected, and dangerous theories as to the advisability of yielding to impulse were germinating under the surface of smiling attention which she continued to present to her companion.

Edith Wharton

#15. I'm not trying to look for pity or sympathy. I was just surprised that so many people in the world of entertainment seemed to be okay with misogyny and homophobia as long as they were profiting from it.

Moby

#16. Why are other people profiting off that? I can see that if I have the page and sold it for $50 and 20 years later somebody's got it for $200, okay. That's business. But I had no say in that art being out there. It just really burns me.

Mike Royer

#17. It's that Romney is taking advantage of the government's 'free stuff,' too, and has been profiting from it handsomely for a long, long time - even as he rails about the 'free stuff' that the government provides other people.

Jennifer Granholm

#18. President Obama signed a bill preventing members of Congress from profiting from insider trading. Didn't you think that was already illegal?

Jay Leno

#19. Only interested in himself and profiting from the war as an unscrupulous entrepreneur, and not in being a patriot: "I believe in Rhett Butler. He's the only cause I know. The rest doesn't mean much to me."

Clark Gable

#20. There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others.
[Fr., Il n'y a au monde que deux manieres de s'elever, ou par sa propre industrie, ou par l'imbecilite des autres.]

Jean De La Bruyere

#21. Two reasons why people hate and/or fight change: (1) People fear the unknown; and (2) There are always people profiting from how things are.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#22. Whatever you do, it will be a path. Life does not work like a light switch - on/off, fat/skinny, miserable/happy, crazy/sane. All things take time, patience, and practice. Anyone who tells you different is profiting off your fearful ignorance of the truth.

Vironika Tugaleva

#23. We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

George Washington

#24. Some of the most famous people in history never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#25. By wine eating cares are put to flight.
[Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.]

Horace

#26. People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.

Samuel Johnson

#27. I've never enjoyed myself. I'm incapable of enjoying myself. There's just some people who don't enjoy themselves very much.

Harry Crews

#28. I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have the ball, what do I do with it? Could anybody argue that a bad solution like just kicking it away is pragmatic just because, sometimes, it works by accident?

Arsene Wenger

#29. If we are artists- hell, whether or not we're artists- it is our job, our responsibility, perhaps even our sacred calling, to take whatever life has handed us and make something new, something that wouldn't have existed if not for the fire, the genetic mutation, the sick baby, the accident.

Dani Shapiro

#30. Be the best, but get ready to be attacked. Only mediocrity is safe.

Paulo Coelho

#31. I'm not lazy, simply adept at leisure

Bemy Wells

#32. Known for leaving, she asked me who I would consider sticking around for. I said, The one who asked me to and meant it.

Donna Lynn Hope

#33. Suddenly living in the Zombie apocalypse didn't feel like the seventh circle of hell It felt possible and full of potential

Rachel Higginson

#34. People keep asking me, 'What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters?' There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear.

Dennis Hopper

#35. Think today's interest rates are high? The Pilgrims borrowed $7000 from a London company of 70 investors in 1620, and devoted the next 23 years to repaying it at 43 percent.

L. M. Boyd

#36. Word has it, they think I'm an old man, and they're not gonna double me. My message is that I'm the baddest for my age bracketest. What I mean by age bracketest is that I came in at 20, I was the baddest 20, and I'm the baddest at 35.

Shaquille O'Neal