Profit Quotes - Page 29

• Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.

  Jane Fonda

  Roots, Culture, Decadence

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• We've got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.

  Jane Fonda

  Limits, Economic, Structure

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• We all like to see everybody make a profit... a very little.

  Cullen Hightower

  Money, Littles

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• We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers of the hands, who kept a book-shop over against the University building-had been debauched to play the part of publishers. We four were to be conjuct editors and, what was the main point of the concern, to print our own works; while, by every rule of arithmetic-that flatterer of credulity-the adventure must succeed and bring great profit. Well, well: it was a bright vision.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Brother, Book, Adventure

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.54, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I have very little interest in the bottom line or signing artists to help make the label profit. That's a lucky, unique position to be in, but it all comes out in the wash.

  Jack White

  Artist, Unique, Lucky

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization of the society is just the resurfacing of that.

  Alice Walker

  America, Leader, Matter

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• Profit maximization is the murderous strategy of global corporation hierarchies

  Jean Ziegler

  Hierarchy, Corporations, Strategy

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• Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me. Now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass; so that by my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of myself, any by my friends I am abused; so that, conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives make your two affirmatives, why then, the worse for my friends, and the better for my foes.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Negatives Make, Two

  William Shakespeare, Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson, David Scott Kastan (2000). “The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.1211, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.

  Philip Yancey

  Differences, People, Done

  Philip Yancey (2010). “What Good is God?: On the Road with Stories of Grace”, p.287, Hachette UK

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• All I want to do is make serious movies that explore social issues and turn a profit, and slip the schnitzel to Jane DePugh.

  James Ellroy

  Issues, Serious, Want

  James Ellroy (1998). “Hollywood Nocturnes”, Delta

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• Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for the dynastic interests of a handful of crowned brigands, for the profits of the bourgeoisie in its drive to plunder foreign lands.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Land, Bourgeoisie, Slave

  "Collected Works, Vol. 41". Book by Vladimir Lenin, 1960.

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• Some government expenditure actually makes a profit. Our theatre leads the world. Loads of tourists must be attracted by the fact that you could spend a week in London doing nothing but visit superb museums and galleries, free.

  Simon Hoggart

  Museums, Government, Theatre

  "Simon Hoggart's week: Why do we worry when writers go stateside?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2011.

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• A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get some of the profit he brings in. Don't make any difference if it's baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It's business, I tell you. There ain't no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Men, Differences

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• Profit margins are probably the most mean-reverting series in finance, and if profit margins do not mean-revert, then something has gone badly wrong with capitalism. If high profits do not attract competition, there is something wrong with the system and it is not functioning properly.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Mean, Competition, Gone

  "Warren Buffett And Jeremy Grantham Are Right About Profit Margins" by Baijnath Ramraika and Prashant Trivedi, www.advisorperspectives.com. November 11, 2014.

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• Profit isn't and shouldn't be the mission of business. The mission of business is to help people. To help your customers, your co-workers, your employees, and your partners. Success is not a number - it's not X dollars or Y customers - it's a measurement of VALUE.

  Fran Tarkenton

  Numbers, People, Dollars

  "3 Business Myths People Should Stop Believing" by Fran Tarkenton, www.businessinsider.com. January 14, 2015.

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• I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction.

  Heather O'Neill

  Unfortunate Things, Childhood, Fiction

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• Over the years, the diamond industry has had a devastating impact in countries such as Sierra Leone, Angola and the Congo, where profits from the sale of diamonds have been used to fund brutal wars, with disastrous effects on local communities.

  Sheherazade Goldsmith

  Country, War, Years

  "Green Scene: Pop the Right Questions". www.dailymail.co.uk. February 07, 2009.

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• When a profit-seeking company proposes to take citizens' private land away for its own gain, people should stand up for their rights.

  Louis Bacon

  Rights, Land, People

  "In The Fight To Keep Ugly Power Lines Off His Gorgeous Estate, Sting Has Louis Moore Bacon's Back" by Katya Wachtel, www.businessinsider.com. November 29, 2010.

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• No one can sustain rage for long. I am still angry and always will be. My dear son was stolen from me and his family to never return. He was killed for profit and lies. How can I not be angry? Sometimes though, the rage comes back.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Lying, Son, Long

  "Cindy Sheehan: Compassion, Courage, Conviction and Controversy". Interview with Joanna Perry-Folino, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 1, 2014.

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• Companies that model best practices, that model the most upstanding principles, end up as the most profitable. It's not a trade of profits versus principles.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Best Practices, Principles, Ends

  "Philip Zimbardo on the Two Types of Heroes". bigthink.com.

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• Let me go out on a limb and suggest that those who see hints of a new class ideology developing around information technology are not necessarily wild-eyed. "Bit-twiddlers" are neither exactly proletariat nor bourgeoisie. They may not own the means of production in the sense that Marx argued, but they certainly do have significantly control over those means, in a more profound way than the term "symbols analysts" or "knowledge workers" captures. As a rough generalization, they value science and technological problem-solving elegance equally at least with profit.

  Steven Weber

  Mean, Technology, Class

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• Thank God that at this hour I am dangerous to the war profiteers of this country who rob the people on the one hand, and rob and debase the government on the other; and then with their pockets and wallets stuffed with the filthy, bloodstained profits of war, wrap the sacred folds of the Stars and Stripes about them and [about] their blatant hypocrisy to the world.

  Kate Richards O'Hare

  Country, Stars, War

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• The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.

  Orson Scott Card

  Ignorance, People, Purity

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1126, Macmillan

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• A hacker doesnt deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Data, Hackers, Activity

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• I don't care if what we do makes a profit; I care whether we get somebody out of a wheelchair.

  Mark Noble

  Care, Wheelchairs, Ifs

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