Pastoral Resources

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent.

The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not.

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

We need to take excellent care of our customers, and do so at a profit.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

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

We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good.

I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction.

I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity.

Hollywood is going to have to find a way of meeting those profit goals.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

I never lost money by turning a profit.

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

The press don't like to say nice things because nice is boring. It's much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we're responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit.

There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.