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The one thing people seem to forget is the more oil we have, the lower the price and the lower the profits the oil companies make. ↗

— David Pratt

#forget #lower #make #more #oil

A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits. ↗

— David Ricardo

#effect #general #money #price #produces

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#arrangement #business #called #derive #friendship

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#cannot #give #profit #we cannot #wisdom

All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on track to earn more than $100 billion before year's end. Yet, at the same time that Big Oil's bottom line is going up, so are Americans' energy costs. ↗

— Allyson Schwartz

#big #billion #bottom #bottom line #companies

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#driven #moguls #period #profit #respective

The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#business #capital #exists #great #money

A movie that costs only $1.6 million doesn't have to be a cultural event to turn a profit. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#cultural #event #million #movie #only

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit. ↗