#profit

This land may be profitable to those that will adventure it. ↗

— Henry Hudson

#land #may #profitable #those #will

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. ↗

— George Orwell

#classes #country #foreign #foreign country #going

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#dearly #derive #great #instruction #makes

It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales! ↗

— Robert Bolt

#his #man #nothing #profits #soul

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

What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence? ↗

— Jerome Cavanagh

#city #country #down #fear #man

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses. ↗

— Shirley Chisholm

#comes #loses #morality #profit #seldom

Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself. ↗

— Phil Crosby

#itself #needed #profitable #wanted

When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.' ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#always #ask #business #business leaders #citizenship

The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#art #arts #britain #certainly #education