#profit

He only profits from praise who values criticism. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#only #praise #profits #values #who

Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#cent #excess #greed #i #idiot

And if we are in this state, if we had an eternity of probation, what reason have we to suppose that we should profit by it - if we had ever so long a time to chose for ourselves we should pursue our own will, to gratify our carnal I desires. ↗

— Elias Hicks

#chose #desires #eternity #ever #gratify

As soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the calculations of the capitalists in the investment of capital in newly-created branches of production. ↗

— Rudolf Hiferding

#branches #calculations #capital #capitalist #capitalists

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#men #nor #pleasure #profit #such

Poets wish to profit or to please. ↗

— Horace

#poets #profit #wish

Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable. ↗

— Trey Parker

#profitable #right #sometimes

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit. ↗

— Samuel Gompers

#company #crime #fails #operate #people

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals. ↗

— Bono

#associates #commodities #corrupt #government #hoard

Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream - but create! ↗

— Robert Collier

#create #dream #every #fact #into