#profit

The press don't like to say nice things because nice is boring. It's much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we're responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit. ↗

— Michael Bay

#because #better #boring #brain #brain surgery

A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge. ↗

— Marvin Bower

#basic #business #competitive #easily #edge

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. ↗

— Pierre Charron

#best #counsel #divine #excellent #foundation

Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune. ↗

— Dick Gephardt

#good #good fortune #life #lottery #moral

People who get to express their voice are paid by the people who make profit from it. So they're going to make you believe you have to spend your money buying these products otherwise you won't be happy. This is really wrong. Especially the implication it carries. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#believe #buying #by the people #carries #especially

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#end #in the end #operations #people #product

Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#before #big #big business #breaking #business

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#give #good #good advice #more #profit

The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down. ↗

— Geraldo Rivera

#been #caught #circulation #down #elite

Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#athenians #bear #burdens #collectively #even