Profit Quotes - Page 19

• Where any work can be done conformably to the reason which is common to gods and men, there we have nothing to fear; for where we are able to get profit by means of the activity which is successful and proceeds according to our constitution, there no harm is to be suspected.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Mean, Successful, Men

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.78, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Scepticism, like wisdom, springs out in full panoply only from the brain of a god, and it is little profit to see an idea in its growth, unless we track its seed to the power which sowed it.

  James Anthony Froude

  Spring, Ideas, Track

  James Anthony Froude (1903). “The nemesis of faith: or, The history of Markham Sutherland”

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• The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wisdom, Next

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence, through what we do, say, wear, buy, and how we enjoy ourselves and who and how we love. Yet it is an illusion that is constantly being undermined by change and death. We can use diamonds in whatever way we like. They are empty things, pretty as water, yet within them—if we want to see it—there is blood, dust, love, curses, and suffering. There is desire to make someone happy, there is admiration, there is ostentation…and there is a company’s profit curve.

  Victoria Finlay

  Dust, Blood, Space

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• I know The past and thence I will essay to glean A warning for the future, so that man May profit by his errors, and derive Experience from his folly; For, when the power of imparting joy Is equal to the will, the human soul Requires no other heaven.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Past, Men, Errors

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.98, Delphi Classics

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• The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.

  Edward Norton

  Roots, Incentives

  "Dialogues on the Environment: Q&A With Edward Norton". Interview with Mark Tercek, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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• [A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.

  Thomas Paine

  Christian, Church, Use

  "The Age of Reason". Book by Thomas Paine, 1794.

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• 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

  Lying, Years, People

  "Rothschild's Violin". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1894.

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• We see buildings in Britain mostly as freestanding objects. They are not meant to have a dialogue with anything around them, or with history, or with ideas of any kind beyond the self-referential. What we call 'regeneration' is largely an excuse for building for maximum profit with a bit of sculptural design thrown in to catch the eye of the media.

  David Chipperfield

  Eye, Self, Media

  "In Britain, money and marketing are what matter most" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2005.

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• What we need most is to restore and revive our humanity. We must create a society where people can live with dignity, a society where people can live in peace and happiness. People are tired of games played for power and profit. People are tired of hatred and conflict. They want to live with more wisdom and confidence, and in peace. It may seem like a long and distant path, but I am convinced that the 21st century must see a movement to sow the seeds of peace, happiness and trust in every person's heart. The seeds of a truly humane way of life. I am convinced this is the only path.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Tired, Heart, Humane Way

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• If you put these five things together - you can't use money to attract talent, you can't advertise, you can't take risks, you can't invest in long-term results, and you don't have a stock market - then we have just put the humanitarian sector at the most extreme disadvantage to the for-profit sector on every level, and then we call the whole system charity, as if there is something incredibly sweet about it.

  Dan Pallotta

  Sweet, Long, Risk

  Dan Pallotta (2012). “Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up For Itself and Really Change the World”, p.29, John Wiley & Sons

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• To the economically illiterate, if some company makes a million dollars in profit, this means that their products cost a million dollars more than they would have without profits. It never occurs to such people that these products might cost several million dollars more without the incentives to be efficient created by the prospect of profits.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mean, People, Dollars

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• Eleanor Roosevelt once said, ‘No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.’ With stories from her own life and data carefully researched, Sheryl Sandberg reminds women that they have to believe in themselves and reach for opportunities. More women than men may need that advice, but I'd bet that both genders would profit from this very well-done book

  Marjorie Scardino

  Believe, Book, Men

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• The term ‘free market’ is really a euphemism. What the far right actually means by this term is ‘lawless market.’ In a lawless market, entrepreneurs can get away with privatizing the benefits of the market (profits) while socializing its  costs (like pollution).

  Steve Kangas

  Mean, Entrepreneur, Cost

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• We tell the for-profit sector, 'Spend, spend, spend on advertising until the last dollar no longer produces a penny of value,' but we don't like to see our donations spent on advertising in charity. Our attitude is, 'Well look, if you can get the advertising donated (at four o'clock in the morning) I'm okay with that, but I don't want my donation spent on advertising, I want it to go to the needy,' as if the money invested in advertising could not bring in dramatically greater sums of money to serve the needy.

  Dan Pallotta

  Morning, Attitude, Dollars

  "Do We Have The Wrong Idea About Charity?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. May 17, 2013.

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• Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.

  Andre Gide

  Action, Motive

  "The Immoralist". Book by André Gide. Translated by R. Howard, 1902.

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• Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the freedom and equality of the individual in a free and open society. Marxism expects this society to result from the abolition of private profit. Capitalism expects the free and equal society to result from the enthronement of private profit as supreme ruler of social behavior.

  Peter Drucker

  Expression, Order, Progress

  "The End of Economic Man". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1939.

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• The concept of profit maximization is, in fact, meaningless.

  Peter Drucker

  Facts, Concepts, Meaningless

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.88, Routledge

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• Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.

  Aeschylus

  Punishment, Feet, Justice

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.247, Delphi Classics

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• Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be.

  Doris Lessing

  Giving, Exploitation, Knows

  Doris May Lessing (1979). “Shikasta: re, colonised planet 5 : personal, psychological, historical documents relating to visit by Johor (George Sherban) emissary (grade 9) 87th of the period of the last days”, Knopf

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• Gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.

  Epicurus

  Gratitude, Virtue

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• In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the citizens of a free republic may be prompted by a principle of duty; the subjects, or at least the nobles, of a monarchy, are animated by a sentiment of honor; but the timid and luxurious inhabitants of a declining empire must be allured into the service by the hopes of profit, or compelled by the dread of punishment.

  Edward Gibbon

  Military, War, Army

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “EDWARD GIBBON Premium Collection: Historiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters: Including "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.731, e-artnow

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• Titles of property, for instance railway shares, may change hands every day, and their owner may make a profit by their sale even in foreign countries, so that titles to property are exportable, although the railway itself is not.

  Karl Marx

  Country, Hands, Titles

  Karl Marx, Samuel Moore, Edward Bibbins Aveling, Friedrich Engels (1961). “Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production”

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• Whoever has a keen eye for profits, is blind in relation to his craft.

  Sophocles

  Eye, Crafts, Blind

  "Oedipus at Colonus". Book by Oedipus at Colonus, 401 BC.

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• You know how to vanquish, Hannibal, but you do not know how to profit from victory.

  Livy

  Victory, Vanquish, Know How

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXII, section 51,

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