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Quotations regarding 'Profit'

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We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so... we used to rotate crops back in the day and, you know, who cares if you're going to make a profit if everybody's too dead or glowing in the dark to be able to purchase anything.
Michael Berryman, American Actor (1948-  )
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist (1842-  )
Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist (1842-  )
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
Josh Billings, American Comedian (1818-1885)
A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.
Uwe Boll, German Director (1965-  )
I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit.
Lisa Bonet, American Actress (1967-  )
A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.
Marvin Bower, American Businessman (1903-2003)
If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.
Jimmy Breslin, American Entertainer (1930-  )
The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
Warren Buffett, American Businessman (1930-  )
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
Warren Buffett, American Businessman (1930-  )
As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.
Alex Campbell, Canadian Politician (1933-  )
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Dale Carnegie, American Writer (1888-1955)
What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence?
Jerome Cavanagh, American Politician (1928-1979)
You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
Paddy Chayefsky, American Dramatist (1923-1981)
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
Shirley Chisholm, American Politician (1924-2005)
For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
Jesus Christ, Clergyman
Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream - but create!
Robert Collier, American Publisher
Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
Calvin Coolidge, American President (1872-1933)
All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.
Charles Cotton, English Poet (1630-  )
When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.'
Mitch Daniels, American Politician (1949-  )
 
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