Profit Quotes - Page 30

• Copyright protects corporate monopoly rights over culture and provides much of the profits to media conglomeratesm encouraging the wholesale privatization of our common culture.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Rights, Media, Culture

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• You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Words Of Wisdom, Done

  CHARLES DICKENS (1867). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.520

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• Never forget that your days are blessed. You may know how to profit by them, or you may not, but they are blesses.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Blessed, May, Never Forget

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• I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.

  Felix Rohatyn

  Believe, Capitalist, I Believe

  "Felix Rohatyn’s ‘Dealings’" by Robert Teitelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2010.

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• I don't run a non-profit. There are lots of non-profits in America - in Detroit, parts of Wall Street, etc. I run a not for profit. We're a business. The only difference is that instead of selling soap or sneakers, we sell hope and leadership.

  Nancy Lublin

  Running, Wall, Sneakers

  "Our Not-for-Profit Business" by Nancy Lublin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2008.

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• For a long time, the for-profit world has told us in the not-for-profit sector to behave more like businesses.

  Nancy Lublin

  Long, World, Behave

  "Our Not-for-Profit Business" by Nancy Lublin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2008.

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• Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all
  sources.

  Aristotle

  Spirit, Madness, Source

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• An honest man is not accountable for the vice and folly of his trade, and therefore ought not to refuse the exercise of it. It is the custom of his country, and there is profit in it. We must live by the world, and such as we find it, so make use of it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Country, Honesty, Exercise

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• Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Art, Stupidity, Mind

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• The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ leveled to every understanding, and too plain to need explanation, saw, in the mysticism of Plato, materials with which they might build up an artificial system which might, from it's indistinctness, admit everlasting controversy, give employment for their order, and introduce it to profit, power and pre-eminence.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Plato, Order

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.43, Cambridge University Press

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• Education is not for profit. If you're not in education for profit, it's not going to be a fair critique for education.

  Noam Chomsky

  Critique, Fairs, Ifs

  "The Callous System of Student Debt and the Structure of the "Free Market"". Interview with William Hodgkinson, chomsky.info. May 14, 2013.

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• The best attitude to receive the Pope's teachings is to understand that he is a religious leader and the essence of his message comes from the Gospel, not from one ideology or another.And so, if our economic systems are not oriented toward the human person but only concerned with profits, he wants to confront the system and change it. This, by the way, is common to all the popes, it comes directly from the so-called social teachings of the church.

  Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo

  Religious, Attitude, Teaching

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• When you look at the number of stupid people who have succeeded in business, you clearly don't have to be very bright. Business is all about getting your sales up and your costs down, the bit in the middle is profit.

  Michael O'Leary

  Stupid, Numbers, People

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I think somehow people should be encouraged to think about a very long time horizon and I think this is true for businesses, it's true for governments and it's true for people doing things in the non-profit sector.

  Peter Thiel

  Thinking, Government, Long

  Interviewed with Victoria Brown, bigthink.com. November 15, 2010.

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• Already nature is serving all those uses which science slowly derives on a much higher and grander scale to him that will be served by her. When the sunshine falls on the path of the poet, he enjoys all those pure benefits and pleasures which the arts slowly and partially realize from age to age. The winds which fan his cheek waft him the sum of that profit and happiness which their lagging inventions supply.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Nature, Fall

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1042, Delphi Classics

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• A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend . . .

  Robert Menzies

  May, Lasts, Tough

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• Several weeks of summer vacation in the Thirties I spent working at $15 a week in the FORBES office.... I worked in the mail cage, where envelopes were slit and subscription payments extracted. Dad used to come pounding down the office aisle and pause long enough to ask, How much today? Inevitably the answer was inadequate-except once. That day the controller said excitedly, Mr. Forbes, the ledger shows a slight profit this month! ... My father turned to him and said, Young man, I don't give a damn what your books show. Do we have any money in the bank?

  Malcolm Forbes

  Summer, Dad, Father

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• When profit is unshared, it's less likely to grow greater.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Grows, Greater

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• All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Movie, Art, People

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• Grant me profits only, grant me the joy of profit made,
  and see to it that I enjoy cheating the buyer!

  Ovid

  Cheating, Joy, Made

  Ovid (1929). “Fastorum libri sex: the Fasti of Ovid”

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• For the profit of travel: in the first place, you get rid of a few prejudices.... The prejudiced against color finds several hundred millions of people of all shades of color, and all degrees of intellect, rank, and social worth, generals, judges, priests, and kings, and learns to give up his foolish prejudice.

  Herman Melville

  Travel, Kings, Giving Up

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.422, Northwestern University Press

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• When shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an economic support of every human right we possess and without it, all rights would disappear.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Rights, Support, Facts

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• Man cannot live by profit alone.

  James A. Baldwin

  Men, Live By

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• With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept the shibboleth of an unbridgeable gap between those who hire and those who are employed. We miserably fail to challenge the lie that what is good for management is necessarily bad for labor; that for one side to profit, the other must be depressed. Such distorted doctrine is false and foreign to the American scene where common ideals and purpose permit us a common approach toward the common good.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Teamwork, Lying, Challenges

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• Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.

  Jane Austen

  Writing, People, Mouths

  Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). “Jane Austen's Letters”, p.289, Oxford University Press

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