#profit

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Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.


Antoine de Saint-Exupery


#chains #charity #ever #gift #god

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.


Paul Samuelson


#companies #does #enterprises #europe #hardly

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.


Paul Samuelson


#become #before #canals #internet #later

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!


William Shakespeare


#god #how #me #seem #stale

The acquisition by dishonest means and cunning,' said Levin, feeling that he was incapable of clearly defining the borderline between honesty and dishonesty. 'Like the profits made by banks,' he went on. 'This is evil, I mean, the acquisition of enormous fortunes without work, as it used to be with the spirit monopolists. Only the form has changed. Le roi est mort, vive le roi! Hardly were the monopolies abolished before railways and banks appeared: just another way of making money without work.


Leo Tolstoy


#banks #earnings #labor #leo-tolstoy #monopolies

With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing.


Toshihiko Fukui


#balance sheets #banks #businesses #continue #existing

What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.


Susan George


#immediately #kind #logic #only #profitable

Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway.


Anne Lamott


#amass #america #anyone #anyway #bad

The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.


James Lovelock


#companies #disinformation #lot #nuclear #nuclear power

American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.


Ian MacKaye


#american #business #developing #everything #getting