Profit Quotes - Page 26

• A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.

  Aristotle

  Kings, Tyrants, Lists

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". P. 825, 1922.

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• Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Credit, Want

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• A profit is not without honor save in Boston.

  Carolyn Wells

  Boston, Honor

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• There are too few rich and too few profits.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Rich

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit.

  Helen Keller

  Race, Insidious, Blindness

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• The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.

  Helen Keller

  Army, Want, Mass

  Helen Keller (1967). “Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches”

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• A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.

  Juvenal

  Heirs, Wealth, Ill

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• Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

  Clarence Darrow

  Silence, Might, Contemplation

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.110, Lulu.com

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• America can no longer afford to get the Nobel Prizes while our competitors get the profits.

  William J. Clinton

  America, Nobel, Competitors

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• Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worst there.

  Francis Quarles

  Mean, Choices, Way

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.36

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• He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior standing he unites with.

  Edmund Burke

  Advice, Understanding, Levels

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• Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit.

  Marya Mannes

  Party, Political, Holding On

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• Drunkenness is not only the cause of crime, but it is crime; and if any encourage drunkenness for the sake of the profit derived from the sale of drink, they are guilty of a form of moral assassination as criminal as any that has ever been practiced by the braves of any country or of any age.

  John Ruskin

  Country, Brave, Age

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• The mind should be accustomed to make wise reflections, and draw curious conclusions as it goes along; the habitude of which made Pliny the Younger affirm that he never read book so bad but he drew some profit from it.

  Laurence Sterne

  Wise, Book, Reading

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.43

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• Writers in a profit making economy are an exploitable commodity whose works are products to be marketed, and are so judged and handled.

  Tillie Olsen

  Commodity, Economy, Products

  Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.170, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Part of America's industrial problems is the aim of its corporate managers. Most American executives think they are in the business to make money, rather than products or service. The Japanese corporate credo, on the other hand, is that a company should become the world's most efficient provider of whatever product and service it offers. Once it becomes the world leader and continues to offer good products, profits follow.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Thinking, Hands, America

  "Out Of The Crisis". Book by W. Edwards Deming, p. 99, 1982.

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• It is management's job to direct the efforts of all components toward the aim of the system. The first step is clarification: everyone in the organization must understand the aim of the system, and how to direct his efforts toward it. Everyone must understand the damage and loss to the whole organization from a team that seeks to become a selfish, independent, profit center.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Jobs, Selfish, Team

  "The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education". Book by W. Edwards Deming, 1993.

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• If you mean to profit, learn to praise.

  Charles Churchill

  Mean, Flattery, Praise

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• Coupled with Usury, Unrestricted Competition destroys the small man for the profit of the great and in so doing produces that mass of economically unfree citizens whose very political freedom comes in question because it has no foundation in any economic freedom, that is, any useful proportion of property to support it. Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without the other that its rebellion is now threatening the very structure of the modern world.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Men, Support

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• I want the largest audience I can get, because that's how I can charge the highest advertising rate. Which means what else do I want? Money. I am trying to earn a profit. It's capitalism.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Trying, Want

  "Limbaugh: 'I am trying to earn a profit'" by Mike Madden, www.salon.com. October 13, 2009.

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• Food is a great metaphor for the consolidation of corporate power in the hands of very few, who are mostly interested in their own profits and not the wellbeing of the animals they're slaughtering, or the land and the water they're using or abusing, or the workforce they're exploiting or even the people eating it.

  Robert Kenner

  Animal, Hands, Land

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The core community is passionate about quality and getting it right. If you want to read some good criticisms of Wikipedia, probably the best place to go is to the Wikipedia article called 'criticisms of Wikipedia'... It was either the dumbest thing or the smartest thing I ever did. The dumbest thing for the obvious reasons, but the smartest thing because I don't think it could have had nearly as much impact as it has. One of the key things that inspired people to put a lot into it (was the charity aspect).

  Jimmy Wales

  Community, Abuse, Wikipedia

  "The Wisdom of One" by Nick Miller, www.theage.com.au. April 25, 2007.

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• There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher manuals, educational games and visual aids. The textbook business is more than a billion-dollar-a-year industry and some of its biggest profits come from 'audio-visual aids' - flash cards, tape cassettes, and filmstrips. No wonder the education industry encourages schools to focus on surface education.

  Marva Collins

  Education, Teacher, School

  Marva Collins, Civia Tamarkin (1984). “Marva Collins Way”, Tarcher

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• Truth is the only good and the purest pity. ... Men lie for profit or for pity. All lies turn to poison, but a lie that is told for pity or shame breeds such a host of ills that no power on earth can compass their redemption.

  Storm Jameson

  Lying, Men, Earth

  Storm Jameson (1922). “The Clash”

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• No mass appeal. Ergo no profit. Ergo no use. The current World Credo.

  Lucille Kallen

  Use, World, Mass

  Lucille Kallen (1980). “C.B. Greenfield: the Tanglewood murder”, Simon & Schuster

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