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Sunday, June 2nd, 2024
the Week of Proper 4 / Ordinary 9
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Quotations regarding 'Profit'

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The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for the rest of this continent, they were constant losers in trade.
Ezra Stiles, American Clergyman (1727-1795)
Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year.
Howard Stringer, American Businessman (1942-  )
Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities.
Maurice Strong, Canadian Businessman (1929-  )
To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants.
Peter Stuyvesant, Dutch Public Servant
It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up.
William Graham Sumner, American Businessman
Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.
Johannes Tauler, German Theologian
What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.
Frederick Tennyson, English Poet
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, French Poet (1871-1945)
They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because they're working on the Oscars show. It's the biggest show in the world.
Bruce Vilanch, American Comedian (1948-  )
The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
E. B. White, American Writer (1899-1985)
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, English Musician (1948-  )
Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?
Ed Wood, American Director (1924-1978)
Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.
William Wordsworth, English Poet (1770-1850)
A person is born with a liking for profit.
Xun Zi, Chinese Philosopher
Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.
Xun Zi, Chinese Philosopher
So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit who just so happens to be a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, we want that same consideration.
Chuck Zito, American Celebrity (1953-  )
It breaks even. We lose ten, twenty grand every year. But then the people who are working say, Look, I'll kick this back in, I don't need to take this profit share. It's very cooperative.
John Zorn, American Composer (1953-  )
 
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