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Quotations regarding 'Profit'

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The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.
Peter Maxwell Davies, English Composer (1934-  )
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
W. Edwards Deming, American Scientist (1900-1993)
Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.
Bob Dole, American Politician (1923-  )
While mainstream media is led by profit, ratings and popularist culture and filtered by the current political climate, Alternative Media is lead solely by the convictions of the campaign and film maker.
Ben Edwards, British Entertainer
The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
Pliny the Elder, Roman Author
Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.
Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher (1466-1536)
Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
Arthur Erickson, Canadian Architect (1924-  )
We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.
Sam Ewing, American Athlete (1949-  )
I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.
Diane Feinstein, American Politician (1933-  )
Where we're living we have a certain amount of our profit every year it's like a percentage 5 or 7% or something like that that we set aside specifically for charity things.
Jon Fishman, American Musician (1965-  )
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick, American Clergyman (1878-1969)
What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?
Robert Fulghum, American Author (1937-  )
That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.
Henry George, American Economist (1839-1897)
Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
Paul Getty, American Businessman (1932-2003)
The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.
Todd Gitlin, American Sociologist
The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
Samuel Gompers, American Activist (1850-1924)
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, German Artist (1893-1959)
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Activist (1926-  )
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, American Critic (1916-2007)
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
Thomas Hardy, English Novelist (1840-1928)
 
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