Profit Quotes - Page 37

• Oh devil! truth is better than much profit. I have searched over the grounds of my belief, and if wife and child and name and fame were all to be lost to me one after the other as the penalty, still I will not lie.

  Thomas Huxley

  Children, Lying, Names

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.357, University of Georgia Press

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• At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

  Lou Holtz

  Average, Balance, Twenties

  Lou Holtz (2009). “Wins, Losses, and Lessons: An Autobiography”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• Man does work for profit in order to enjoy pain; but in a positive sense, he works to enjoy the excitement and meaning that achievement provides for his own psychological growth and thereby his happiness.

  Frederick Herzberg

  Pain, Men, Order

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• I can't stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I'm Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.

  Barbra Streisand

  Loss, Bulls, Red

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• From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the US economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing.

  Noam Chomsky

  Significant Change, Economy, Driven

  "'Losing' the world: American decline in perspective, part 1" by Noam Chomsky, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2012.

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• When I look at founders and CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Brian Chesky at Airbnb and Sebastian Thrun at Udacity, these are companies that are creating extraordinary social good and extraordinary economic and educational empowerment, all within with context of a for-profit model.

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

  Educational, Zuckerberg, Creating

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• Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

  Giving, Effort, Might

  "How Innovation Can Fuel Your Giving" by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2011.

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• Wars are popular. Contractors make profits; the aristocracy glean honour.

  Ramsay MacDonald

  War, Aristocracy, Contractor

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• One of the best investors around, Joel Greenblatt, has written a popular, charming and funny book about investing in great companies at low P/E multiples. To simplify an already simple book, great companies are generally measured as companies that can generate lots of profit without requiring a lot of capital. This means that they have high ROEs.

  David Einhorn

  Book, Mean, Simple

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• Medicine is for the patient.
  Medicine is for the people.
  It is not for the profits.

  George W. Merck

  Medicine, People, Patient

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• It's hard to get money to support your [non-profit] organization if you have no evidence. It's very much like the acting business: You need an agent and manager so you can get a job to get resources, but you can't get an agent and a manager unless people see your work.

  Sonja Sohn

  Jobs, Organization, People

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• There's a long history of subsidized philanthropy - particularly in the USA - and again the public has come to expect corporations to play a role in their social welfare. It's become easy for some companies to profit from citizen goodwill and volunteerism.

  Ravida Din

  Play, Usa, Long

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I do some freelance web design stuff. I taught a directing class for this not-for-profit organization here in Chicago a couple months ago. I wrote a thing for Filmmaker Magazine a couple months ago. Occasionally, I'll get to go speak to students at a university and make a little money that way, which is great. I really like doing that.

  Joe Swanberg

  Couple, Class, Organization

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Historically, things were moving in a pretty good direction until the Reagan presidency. And then it all got reversed. The Mexico City policy was instituted - the idea of wrecking the environment for this generation's profit and forgetting about our gets got firmly embedded. I'm sad to say the Clinton administration didn't turn it around and the Bush administration, well, I think they're the worst administration we've ever had, and I used to be a Republican.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Moving, Thinking, Cities

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• The problem with Wal-Mart is that it's a business model premised on offering the customer low prices at any cost - any cost to society, any cost to workers. They've got a lot of competition and have influenced people to follow their model through simply providing a model that is so successful at making profits.

  Liza Featherstone

  Successful, Offering, People

  "Selling Women Short". Interview with Michal Lumsden, www.motherjones.com. February 2, 2005.

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• Since loans are getting more expensive and there's less money available, we're seeing a commensurate decline in growth. Higher costs and lower growth, in turn, translate into lower profits. Figuratively speaking, in the future, we won't be able to run as far or jump as high as we used to.

  Paul Achleitner

  Running, Growth, Cost

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It's completely legitimate for a company to continue striving for growth and higher profits. But business activities have to be conducted in a sustainable manner.

  Paul Achleitner

  Growth, Strive, Company

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I only wanted to be a good employee who generated as much profit as possible for his employer. I was merely a small cog in the machine - and now I'm suddenly supposedly the main person responsible for the financial crisis.

  Jerome Kerviel

  Cogs, Machines, Financial

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My only goal was to make the largest profit possible for my employer. I was caught in a spiral that - with the support of my bosses - continued to lead up and up.

  Jerome Kerviel

  Goal, Support, Boss

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Perhaps profit isn't everything, but nothing works without profit. Profit is the basis for independent journalism.

  Mathias Dopfner

  Independent, Journalism, Bases

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I like what Barcelona is doing. This city almost perfectly combines its natural advantages with cultural attractions, IT parks and first-rate educational opportunities. The same applies for Dublin, which manages to achieve a blend of complexity, tolerance and artistry and makes a point of not devoting every part of the city to the tourism industry. Sometimes creativity also means forgoing short-term profits and simply saying no.

  Charles Landry

  Educational, Mean, Creativity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm increasingly on the side of thinkers like David Graeber who are talking back to this notion of totality and emphasizing how there are all kinds of moments in our daily lives that break - or at least could break - from the logic of profit and the modes of domination it entails. Zones of freedom, even if it's never pure.

  Ben Lerner

  Talking, Sides, Logic

  "Despair strikes me as eminently reasonable and boring". Interview with Tao Lin, believermag.com. September 2014.

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• The obsession with economic profit and technical efficiency puts the human rhythms of life at risk.

  Pope Francis

  Rhythm Of Life, Risk, Obsession

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• A right judgment draws us a profit from all things we see .

  William Shakespeare

  Judgment, Draws, All Things

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• We want to encourage investors to target businesses that focus on achieving more than just profits - by placing their money into businesses that also positively contribute to social or environmental benefits in Ontario. Angel investors can help social enterprises grow and succeed, and through our partnership with the Network of Angel Organizations and the Impact Angel Alliance, we are making it easier for social ventures and angel investors to connect, contribute, and make our society a better place to live.

  Brad Duguid

  Angel, Organization, Impact

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