Profit Quotes - Page 32

• It was my duty to have loved the highest; It surely was my profit had I known: It would have been my pleasure had I seen. We needs must love the highest when we see it, Not Lancelot, nor another.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Needs, Pleasure, Duty

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Guinevere' (1859) l. 652

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• The number of managers with great track records in a given market depends far more on the number of people who started in the investment business (in place of going to dental school), rather than on their ability to produce profits.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  School, Numbers, Track

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2008). “Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets”, p.154, Random House

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• Invest in low-turnover, passively managed index funds... and stay away from profit-driven investment management organizations... The mutual fund industry is a colossal failure... resulting from its systematic exploitation of individual investors... as funds extract enormous sums from investors in exchange for providing a shocking disservice... Excessive management fees take their toll, and manager profits dominate fiduciary responsibility.

  David F. Swensen

  Responsibility, Organization, Systematic

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• There is very little evidence that we give a hoot about profit.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Giving, Littles, Management

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• Even with a margin of safety in the investor's favor, an individual security may work out badly. For the margin guarantees only that he has a better chance for profit than for loss - not that loss is impossible. But as the number of such commitments is increased the more certain does it become that the aggregate of the profits will exceed the aggregate of the losses.

  Benjamin Graham

  Commitment, Loss, Numbers

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• One, which I mention several times elsewhere, is the need for patience if big profits are to be made from investment. Put another way, it is often easier to tell what will happen to the price of a stock than how much time will elapse before it happens. The other is the inherently deceptive nature of the stock market. Doing what everybody else is doing at the moment, and therefore what you have an almost irresistible urge to do, is often the wrong thing to do at all.

  Philip Arthur Fisher

  Needs, Investing, Way

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• Ben's emphasis was on protecting his expectation of profit with minimum risk.

  Walter Schloss

  Expectations, Risk, Investing

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• I liked the results of the profits in the markets.

  Walter Schloss

  Investing, Results, Values

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• Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him - may be strongly suggested by his work. This is an important part of the morals of art, which we must never lose sight of. Art is not only for pleasure and profit, but for good and for evil.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Art, Sight, Evil

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.282

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• Morally a woman has a right to the free and entire development of every faculty which God has given her to be improved and used to His honor. Socially she has a right to the protection of equal laws; the right to labor with her hands the thing that is good; to select the kind of labor which is in harmony with her condition and her powers; to exist, if need be, by her labor, or to profit others by it if she choose. These are her rights, not more nor less than the rights of the man.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Men, Rights, Hands

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• It is not size that counts in business. Some companies with $500,000 capital net more profits than other companies with $5,000,000. Size is a handicap unless efficiency goes with it.

  Herbert Newton Casson

  Size, Efficiency, Handicaps

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• Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.

  Richard Whately

  Reading, Character, Fiction

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• All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

  Richard Whately

  Gambling, Desire, Expenses

  Richard Whately, Launcelot John George Downing DOWDALL (1848). “Elements of Logic ... Ninth edition, revised”, p.364

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• We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Reading, Hands, Ideas

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• If you suffer [death] in the way of God, it will be your profit in this world, and your reward in the next.

  Hassan al-Banna

  Suffering, World, Rewards

  "Five Tracts of Hasan Al-Banna: A Selection from the Majmu at Rasail al-Imam al-Shahid Hasan al-Banna". Translated and annotated by Charles Wendell, p. 156,

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• That is what diminishes the artist and his song. The artist is now hermetically sealed. The publishing company got him his deal and they expect to profit from his songs. So what if he is a better singer than a songwriter; let's put him in a room with a real songwriter. Something great is bound to come...except very often nothing great comes out of such contrived match-ups. Nobody knows where a great song comes from, and that's why so many writers credit the Lord as a co-writer (though I notice they never offer Him half the writer's royalties) when they come up with a real gem.

  Michael Kosser

  Song, Real, Writing

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• If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Honor, Littles, Foundation

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• Growth and profit are a product of how people work together.

  Ricardo Semler

  People, Growth, Working Together

  "Democracy in the workplace". Interview with Nick Easen, www.cnn.com. May 20, 2004.

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• Sold my soul to the devil, made a profit.

  Kevin Rudolf

  Soul, Devil, Made

  Song: Champions

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• Fearlessness begets happiness, which begets creativity, which begets innovation, which begets profits.

  Ben Chestnut

  Creativity, Innovation, Begets

  Twitter post from May 26, 2015

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• When consumers know things, they tend to make informed choices, and that could affect corporate profits. I'm sorry, but your right to know is always going to be outweighed by their right to hide it from you.

  Bill Maher

  Sorry, Choices, Consumers

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• I know transplanted human worth will bloom to profit otherwhere.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Humans, Knows

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.96, Broadview Press

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• It is also painful to see that the struggle against hunger and malnutrition is hindered by market priorities, the primacy of profit, which have reduced foodstuffs to a commodity like any other, subject to speculation, also of a financial nature, The hungry remain, at the street corner, and ask to be recognized as citizens, to receive a healthy diet. We ask for dignity, not for charity.

  Pope Francis

  Nature, Struggle, Priorities

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• From the Anarchist standpoint, these artificial hindrances which are the cause of three main forms of usury-interest, profit, and rent, are, in the order of their importance, monopoly in the control of the circulating medium-money and credit, private property in land not based on occupancy and use, patent rights and copyrights, and tariffs.

  Laurance Labadie

  Order, Land, Rights

  Laurance Labadie (1978). “Selected Essays”

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• [T]he State . . . gives idle capital the power of increase, and, through interest, rent, profit, and taxes, robs industrious labor of its products.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Giving, Increase, States

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub

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