The Profit Quotes

#1. War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

Paul Valery

#2. Society has to be structured such that there are checks and balances, so that it can't be manipulated, for instance, for the profit of just some multinational company who's going to get rich on trying to legislate the environment.

Greg Graffin

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. I think we do need a Constitutional amendment to take the profit out of politics by imposing term limits.

Kenneth Eade

#6. 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

#7. Sharia law is a Malignant law, it's totally based on the interpretation of the Koran and the Hajid, and the way Islam and the profit lived.

Mark Durie

#8. I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them.

Lester B. Pearson

#9. Death can only be profitable: there's no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a grave for hundreds or thousands of years, if you count it up the profit turns out to be enormous.

Anton Chekhov

#10. He mad no moral judgements. He accepted mankind as he found it, and looked for the profit to be made from its strengths or weaknesses.

Wilbur Smith

#11. We must take the profit out of prejudice.

Coleman Young

#12. When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.

Paul Brunton

#13. People invest in companies in order to get a share of the profit that company will make. If the Government increases its share of the profits, potential profits, at the expense of the owners of the company, the shareholders, then that makes investment in that company less attractive.

Malcolm Turnbull

#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. The profit motive promotes economic growth by creating better products at cheaper prices.

Mark Skousen

#16. The difference in the profit and loss is usually ... do not quit.

Walt Disney

#17. Marriage is a lot of things-an alliance, a sacrament, a comedy, or a mistake; but it is definitely not a partnership because that implies equal gain. And every right-thinking woman knows the profit in matrimony is by all odds hers.

Phyllis McGinley

#18. We must take the profit out of war.

Smedley Butler

#19. Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.

Seneca The Younger

#20. Fishes should not be taken from the deep; instruments for the profit of a state should not be shown to the people.

Lao-Tzu

#21. My memories are of my dad taking me to football on Saturday mornings, and my mum taking me swimming. Those are the things I remember from my childhood, not sitting around the table debating capitalism and the profit squeeze.

David Miliband

#22. There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such profit, but in the end the profit will turn out to be a loss.

Alexander Hamilton

#23. The syndicate makes the profit. And everybody has a share.

Joseph Heller

#24. The profit on a good action is to have done it.

Seneca The Younger

#25. Once you are able to observe each phase, along with each strategy for each phase being played out, you only have to wait for the profit release phase and then join it.

Martin Cole

#26. Not to pursue our joy in ministry is not to pursue the profit of our people ... Begrudging service does not qualify as genuine love.

John Piper

#27. So the worker works part of the day for their wages, part of the day to pay for equipment, loans, raw materials and part of the day to create the profit. So the worker works part of the day for free, creating the profit not for himself or herself but for the capitalist. And

Douglas Bell

#28. Merit is no qualification for freedom. [...] Freedom is enjoyed when you are so well armed, or so turbulent, or inhabit a country so thorny that the expense of your neighbour's occupying you is greater than the profit.

Thomas Edward Lawrence

#29. If you have company-owned stores, you make 100 percent of the profit from each one, but you have less entrepreneurial spirit.

Fred DeLuca

#30. 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

#31. Even if you sell the same number of plasma televisions - if you are selling them for 20 or 30 or 40 per cent of the original price, your revenue goes down, and the profit goes with it.

Gerry Harvey

#32. The private sector is ill suited to taking on most of these large infrastructure investments: if the services are to be accessible, which they must be in order to be effective, the profit margins that attract private players simply aren't there.

Naomi Klein

#33. For business owners, there are many important documents to learn to read. One of the most important is the profit and loss statement, known as the P&L, and the balance sheet.

Darren L Johnson

#34. You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto agreement so that you can secure the profit of your greedy companies and industries.

Osama Bin Laden

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.

Tom Scholz

#38. 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

#39. The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.

George Grosz

#40. Cause the profit system follows the path of least resistance and following the path of least resistance is what makes the river crooked. Hmmmm.

Utah Phillips

#41. From the Balance sheet of humanity, to the Profit & Loss account of emotions, I am all in good books. I am a Chartered Accountant.

Vikrmn

#42. Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula. Lifetime value is the net present value of the profit stream of a customer.

Bill Gurley

#43. Corporations keep the profit and leave society as a whole to clean up the mess.

Anonymous

#44. Capitalism always draws from the cheap labor pool; the profit is greater when the expense is limited

Michael Schwalbe

#45. The profit orientation is only one orientation of a person. The same people who are interested in profit-making are also selfless. I am not saying that capitalist theory is wrong. I am saying that it has not been interpreted and practiced fully.

Muhammad Yunus

#46. Thirty spokes meet in the hub. Where a wheel isn't is where it's useful. Hollowed out, clay makes a pot. Where the pots not is where it's useful. Cut doors and windows to make a room. Where the room isn't, there's room for you. So the profit in what is, is in the use of what isn't.

Laozi

#47. The basic issue is whether the financial elite or the government on behalf of the people should have the profit from creating money.

Linda McQuaig

#48. There is a lack of economic and political motivation to defend life in the oceans. The profit is made by companies exploiting the oceans and they have the money to buy the politicians who make the laws.

Paul Watson

#49. 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

#50. There isn't one thing the federal government does that anybody in Big Business would emulate, at least not in the profit sector.

Rush Limbaugh

#51. The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.

Michel De Montaigne

#52. Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Elizabeth Hardwick

#53. If there is excitement in their lives, it is contained in the figures on the profit and loss sheet. What an indictment.

Anita Roddick

#54. Europeans think Americans are stupid but 90% of the profit for any writer comes from US, not Europe.

Daniel Marques

#55. A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.

Aristotle.

#56. Decriminalization would take the profit out of drugs and greatly reduce, if not eliminate, the drug-related violence that is currently plaguing our streets.

Kurt Schmoke

#57. By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefront ads, magazine covers or TV shows, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today's girls.

Adora Svitak

#58. It is imperative to contest all factions for complete victory, so the army is not garrisoned and the profit can be total. This is the law of strategic siege.

Sun Tzu

#59. Never look at an opportunity at face value & pass it on that basis. Examine the income vs. the profit vs. expenses then make your decision.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#60. If you can't figure out how to make money on three billion in revenue, when exactly will the profit magic be found? Ten billion? Fifty billion?

David Heinemeier Hansson

#61. The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

Frederic Bastiat

#62. Unfortunately writers take a very small part of the profit on their books, and I think in the e-book world there is a real danger they will take even less, unless they are vigilant and robust about protecting their own interests.

Graham Swift

#63. Have you been working on Sunday? Have you been buying or selling without necessity in the course of this holy day? Give to the poor some alms which will exceed the profit you have made.

John Vianney

#64. Before you count the profit, count the cost of a working mother.

A. Theodore Tuttle

#65. Drunkenness is not only the cause of crime, but it is crime; and if any encourage drunkenness for the sake of the profit derived from the sale of drink, they are guilty of a form of moral assassination as criminal as any that has ever been practiced by the braves of any country or of any age.

John Ruskin

#66. The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.

Richard M. Nixon

#67. Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.

Hesiod

#68. 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

#69. It's for management to enthuse & motivate employees towards excellence in service; the profit incentive doesn't last

Phil Harding

#70. If you do something for fun and create the best possible product, then the profit will come.

Richard Branson

#71. Unless we change direction, models show that the profit of the entire consumer goods sector could be wiped out by 2050

Paul Polman

#72. It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall be a cause of suffering, and they shall possess neither the profit nor the beauty of the world.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#73. A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get some of the profit he brings in. Don't make any difference if it's baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It's business, I tell you. There ain't no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff.

Babe Ruth

#74. Where was the lecture on how slavery alone catapulted the whole country from agriculture into the industrial age in two decades? White folks' hatred, their violence, was the gasoline that kept the profit motors running.

Toni Morrison

#75. A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, unites in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.

Adam Smith

#76. 32 grams raw, chop it in half, get 16. Double it times three, we got 48. Which mean a whole lot of cream. Divide the profit by four. Subtract it by eight. We back to 16.

Foxy Brown

#77. 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

#78. As Americans, we shouldn't like bailouts. Where I come from, if someone takes a risk and they're going to make the profit from that risk, they shouldn't have the taxpayer pay for the losses.

Henry Paulson

#79. 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

#80. 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

#81. 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

#82. So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.

Norman Mailer

#83. In this society, dominated as it is by the profit-seeking ventures of monopoly corporations, health has been callously transformed into a commodity - a commodity that those with means are able to afford, but that is too often entirely beyond the reach of others.

Angela Davis

#84. The Republican program is the profit-protection program for the insurance industry It's a bill of goods, it's a bill of wrongs. Ours is a patients' bill of rights.

Edward Kennedy

#85. Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

Voltaire

#86. If you keep your eye on the profit, you're going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.

Steve Jobs

#87. The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

E.B. White

#88. I've always tried to keep my cover prices on the low side. I'm more interested in getting people to read the books we publish and less interested in the profit margin.

Kevin Sampsell

#89. To summarize: Three steps must be taken to smash the war racket. 1. We must take the profit out of war. 2. We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war. 3. We must limit our military forces to home defense purposes.

Smedley D. Butler

#90. Why just order a pizza, when you can get a restraining order for the delivery guys, make them come to you, sue them, and get all the profit?

Will Advise

#91. The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.

Steve Winwood

#92. His body, his mind, his soul, had, for years, served only for the profit of others. He had his own people to whom he was pledged. Three million. They were the currency of his freedom.

Colum McCann

#93. If you took the profit out of war, there would be no war. What the hell do you think war is? You think we go to another country to bring democracy? We go there 'cause there's oil, resources or something we need.

Jacque Fresco

#94. Rappers hate each other, not the labels that got rich,
Don't care about culture, they only want profit.
If your album sell slow, bet you'll get dropped quick;
Q-Tip warned us: the industry's toxic.
For reference, check out BDP's Sex and Violence.

Cormega

#95. A great leader must serve the best interests of the people first, not those of multinational corporations. Human life should never be sacrificed for monetary profit. There are no exceptions.

Suzy Kassem

#96. The next day Mrs Honeyfoot told her husband that John Segundus was exactly what a gentleman should be, but she feared he would never profit by it for it was not the fashion to be modest and quiet and kind-hearted.

Susanna Clarke

#97. The Protestants of old go to work not just for the money, their biggest motivation for work is service to God and man. Not the interest to gain profit or make money.

Sunday Adelaja

#98. This is the Rock, sweetheart," the owner added. "There's no tragedy you can't profit from.

Henry Mosquera

#99. And these [pharmaceutical] companies are still threatening to sue. And it's like, you know, do you not have a conscience? Do you not want the world to be a better place? You're still making a profit. How much more of a profit do you want to make?

Elton John

#100. Think about it. The industry generates billions of dollars of profit and revenue each year. They do so by selling answers. But if they had the answers, then these so-called answers would just be copied and pasted and handed out, and the industry itself would crumble.

Scott Abel