Profit Quotes - Page 3

• The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.

  Charles Handy

  Business, Mean, Finance

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• If we cannot make a profit, that means we are committing a sort of crime against society. We take society's capital, we take their people, we take their materials, yet without a good profit, we are using precious resources that could be better used elsewhere.

  Konosuke Matsushita

  Mean, People, Crime

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• Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.

  Plato

  Wise, Honey, Herbs

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• Truly visionary and successful companies have discovered that there is no conflict between the pursuit of profit and having a pursuit beyond profit.

  David Maister

  Inspiring, Successful, Visionaries

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• Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

  Cato the Elder

  Success, Wise, Mistake

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• We are talking about an awesome power. It is the power to weave illusions that appear real as long as they last. That is the very core of the Fed's power. Of course not everyone is instinctively against this illusion-weaving power, and many even welcome it. Tragically, the innocent who understand little about the complexity of the monetary system suffer the most, while those who are in the know reap great profit whether the market is going up or down.

  Ron Paul

  Money, Real, Power

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• In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Men, Two

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.

  Anita Roddick

  Business, Lines, Argument

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• We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.

  Sam Ewing

  Wisdom, World, Born

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• I think anyone who uses the web is smart and will profit.

  Jason Mraz

  Smart, Thinking, Use

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• Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Hands, Civilization, Progress

  Speech in New York, 27 Nov. 1920, in New York Times 28 Nov. 1920, p. 20

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• All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Christian, Atheist

  Thomas Paine (1821). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine”, p.2

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• To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit.

  Sam Farr

  Agriculture, Able

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• If a stock doesn’t act right don’t touch it; because, being unable to tell precisely what is wrong, you cannot tell which way it is going. No diagnosis, no prognosis. No prognosis, no profit.

  Edwin Lefevre

  Diagnosis, Way, Prognosis

  Edwin Lefèvre (2004). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.69, John Wiley & Sons

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• Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China.

  John Bruton

  Country, Usa, Three

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• Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses.

  Euripides

  Greatness, People, House

  Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!

  Peter Drucker

  Men, Chance, Modern

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• In capitalism, profit does not come out of another man's hardship; it comes out of new production of new wealth that's never existed before.

  Andrew Joseph Galambos

  Men, Doe, Hardship

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• Mainstream politicians will continue to protect existing systems of power, corporate executives will continue to maximize profit without concern, and the majority of people will continue to avoid these questions. It’s the job of people with critical sensibilities—those who consistently speak out for justice and sustainability, even when it’s difficult—not to back away just because the world has grown more ominous.

  Robert Jensen

  Jobs, Speaks Out, People

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• A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others.

  Joseph Collins

  Wise, Teaching, Experience

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• The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

  Juvenal

  Sweet, Smell, Wealth

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• You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Integrity, Literature

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• Money will always turn up when there is a potential for profit.

  James Cook

  Turns

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• Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.

  Jacques Amyot

  Reading, Desire, Together

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