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• Perhaps my number one rule is: Don't try to make a profit on a bad trade, just try to find the best place to get out.

  Linda Bradford Raschke

  Numbers, Trying, Best Place

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• Speculators often prosper through ignorance; it is a cliché that in a roaring bull market knowledge is superfluous and experience is a handicap. But the typical experience of the speculator is one of temporary profit and ultimate loss

  Benjamin Graham

  Ignorance, Loss, Typical

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• The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Needs, Bigs, Term

  "Live From..." with Miles O'Brien, www.cnn.com. March 25, 2004.

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• Private citizens and companies are always seen as evil and greedy, because they want to profit. But the government picks your pocket any chance it can get, but they're never called greedy.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Government, Evil, Want

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We in America count on the profit motive to get people to do the right thing. That's our basic American notion when it comes to business.

  Chris Matthews

  America, People, Motive

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The problem with addicted people, communities, corporations, or countries is that they tend to lie, cheat, or steal to get their 'fix.' Corporations are addicted to profit and governments to power.

  Helen Caldicott

  Country, Lying, Power

  Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and updated)”, p.236, W. W. Norton & Company

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• For who that noght dar undertake,
  Be riht he schal no profit take
  [For who that dare not undertake,
  By right he shall no profit take.
  i.e., Nothing ventured, nothing gained.]

  John Gower

  Risk, Dare

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• What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit.

  Saib Tabrizi

  Knowledge, Library, Doe

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• Outward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue (or subjugate...) nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it. For, when all is said and done, at what is aiming all this display (or deployment) of activity, if not to realized outward profits, to provide material pleasure (or enjoyment). It is not the first time that men sell their birth right for a dish of lentils, and thus disown (or repudiate or deny) the best of thmeselves.

  African Spir

  Men, Law, Done

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 36), 1937.

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• So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.

  Norman Mailer

  Cancer, Crisis

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• Honour and profit lie not in one sacke.
  [Honour and profit lie not in one sack.]

  George Herbert

  Lying, Honour

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• Honour without profit is a ring on the finger.

  George Herbert

  Fingers, Rings, Honour

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.251

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• No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.

  George Herbert

  Honour

  George Herbert (1861). “The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel”, p.267

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• As anyone who goes into dog-rescue knows, it is not a for-profit business, but the rewards are priceless for me.

  Emmylou Harris

  Dog, Rewards, Priceless

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• Profit doesn't appear as the goal but as a side effect of pursuing motivating principles.

  Ted Malloch

  Goal, Principles, Sides

  "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Theodore Roosevelt Malloch, 2011.

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• Adam Smith's image of competition in the marketplace was intended as an adjunct to his detailed description of human motivation in The Theory of Moral Sentiments , in which the pursuit of profit is tempered at every juncture by sympathy and benevolence, and by the posture of the "impartial spectator" which is forced on us by our moral nature.

  Ted Malloch

  Motivation, Competition, Moral

  "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.

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• Corporations never actually mention 'money'; that would be vulgar. They prefer such words as 'turnover,' 'profit,' 'salary,' 'revenue,' 'budget,' 'premium,' and 'savings,' all much more refined.

  Corinne Maier

  Business, Salary, Would Be

  Corinne Maier (2007). “Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay”, p.19, Vintage

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• Profit per se is not my motive.

  Chris Hughes

  Motive

  "I Think It Would Be Fun to Run the New Republic: Chris Hughes as Charles Foster" by Tim Carmody, www.wired.com. March 9, 2012.

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• The U. S. is headed toward a period of business depression... beginning within the next two years, which may exceed that which preceded the War. ... The only thing that will save us is a new gold policy or the discovery of a new process or additional gold fields. If the fall [of gold production] is not prevented by design or accident we shall throttle business, wringing out all profits and experiencing all the evils of deflation.

  Irving Fisher

  War, Fall, Discovery

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• They speak of "This Dojo" and "That Dojo". They are looking for profit.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Art, Dojo, Speak

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.10, Bottom of the Hill

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• If one individual, or one class, can call in the aid of authority to ward off the effects of competition, it acquires a privilege and at the cost of the whole community; it can make sure of profits not altogether due to the productive services rendered, but composed in part of an actual tax upon consumers for its private profit' which tax it commonly shares with the authority that thus unjustly lent its support.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Philosophy, Class, Support

  Jean Baptiste Say (1827). “A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth”, p.91

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• When people make donations to non profits, they want to know that their money goes to good use.

  Sam Simon

  People, Use, Want

  "On the Lam and Back in Command: Interviews With Captain Paul Watson and The Simpsons Co-Creator Sam Simon". Interview with Jerry Cope, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 11, 2012.

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• The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits ahead of quality care for its patients.

  Jerrold Nadler

  Quality, Reform, Benefits

  "My Open Letter on Health Insurance Reform" by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2009.

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• Why is pot against the law? It wouldn't be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can't make a profit off it, would it?

  Bill Hicks

  Law, Pot, Grows

  "Chicago '91". Comedy album by Bill Hicks, 1991.

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• Socialism will be here the day we share our profits to the degree we share our failures.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Degrees, Socialism, Share

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