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  • Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them.

  • Even with a margin of safety in the investor's favor, an individual security may work out badly. For the margin guarantees only that he has a better chance for profit than for loss - not that loss is impossible. But as the number of such commitments is increased the more certain does it become that the aggregate of the profits will exceed the aggregate of the losses.

  • One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

    Hard Work   Use   Profit  
  • We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

    Wisdom   Giving   Advice  
  • Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the opposition.

    Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City
  • Your profits are going to be cut down to a reasonably low level by taxation. Your income will be subject to higher taxes. Indeed in these days, when every available dollar should go to the war effort, I do not think that any American citizen should have a net income in excess of $25,000 per year after payment of taxes.

    War   Cutting   Thinking  
    Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1942, Volume 11”, p.232, Best Books on
  • Production for sale in a market in which the object is to realize the maximum profit is the essential feature of a capitalist world-economy. In such a system production is constantly expanded as long as further production is profitable, and men constantly innovate new ways of producing things that will expand the profit margin.

    Men   Long   World  
    Immanuel Wallerstein (1979). “The Capitalist World-Economy”, p.15, Cambridge University Press
  • The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size.

    Wrath   Waiting   Size  
    John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.26, Hamilton Books
  • To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the shimmer of sun on blue water. It brings meekness and inspiration from the decency of nature, charity toward tackle-makers, patience toward fish, a mockery of profits and egos, a quieting of hate, a rejoicing that you do not have to decide a darned thing until next week. And it is discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.

    Hate   Inspiration   Men  
    Herbert Hoover (1946). “Addresses Upon the Road: World War II, 1941-1945”
  • He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone's vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself.

  • Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

    'Odes' bk. 1, no. 9, l. 13
  • If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit.

  • Some people would argue the other side: that the business of business is business, and companies should only be focused on profits. But in today's world, I don't think corporations can only be focused on profits, because they are inextricably linked with the communities that they serve. I do not believe you can be a leader in your industry without being a leader in your community. It's a fundamental shift in how you think about business.

    "On the Record: Marc Benioff". San Francisco Chronicle Interview, www.sfgate.com. October 8, 2006.
  • There are a handful of companies who understand all successful business operations come down to three basic principles; People---Product---Profit. Without top people, you cannot do much with the other two.

    Successful   Two   People  
  • In my considered opinion, the profit to be made by permanent settlement in space is nothing less than the survival of industrial civilization, and therefore the survival of nearly the entire human race, along with such amenities as peace, freedom, enough to eat, and the chance to reach a high age in good health.

  • I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

    Francis Bacon, John Blackbourne, George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress) (1730). “Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Containing, I. Proposition for compiling and amendment of our laws. II. Offer of a digest of the laws. III. Elements, or, Maxims and use of the common law. IV. Cases of treason. V. Four arguments in law ... VI. Draught of an act. VII. Ordinances in chancery. VIII. Reading on the statute of uses. IX. Resuscitatio ... X. Charges. XI. Speeches. XII. Observations on a libel, &c. XIII. Report of Lopez's treason. XI”, p.15
  • Sell practical, tested merchandise at a reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings - and they will always come back.

  • Non-profit organizations think like non-profit organizations. That's the problem.

  • Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

    "Goodbye to Newspapers?". Article by Russell Baker, www.nybooks.com. August 16, 2007.
  • Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.

  • We make our profits through content and services.

    Profit  
  • Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.

    Writing   People   Mouths  
    Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). “Jane Austen's Letters”, p.289, Oxford University Press
  • I have very little interest in the bottom line or signing artists to help make the label profit. That's a lucky, unique position to be in, but it all comes out in the wash.

    Artist   Unique   Lucky  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

    Banking   Today   Profit  
  • The oil companies are really making a very lucrative amount of profit from the high price of oil. I don't that they're very keen to reduce the price of oil. The consumers are those who are the victims so I think that the producers, the governments, some of them, they're enjoying the high revenue that they get.

    Source: www.sbs.com.au
  • CEOs need to produce continuous growth in sales and profits. Yet they must also invest in sustainability and social responsibility, which then leave them less money for financing their growth.

    Interview With Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. May 10, 2015.
  • I thought that, given the system of rewards central to our economic system, in which profit maximization is valued above all else and specifically above life, it is probably just as irresistible to the owners of capital (human or otherwise) to exploit workers (and the land): "Nothing personal," they say as they load their property onto the ship bound for the Middle Passage, "but a man's gotta turn a dime."

    Men   Land   Dimes  
    Derrick Jensen (2002). “The Culture of Make Believe”, p.102, Chelsea Green Publishing
  • This is business: they don't care about your lyrics; The better you sell, the better future for their children. Controversy sells, so they support conflict, Makes more progress, means more profit. An artist gets killed, they say they're 'so sorry,' Meanwhile, they tell you the date of his next project. What a life...death made them more profit: Record companies get paid for your drama.

    Children   Sorry   Drama  
  • Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.

  • Yes, but I’ve already made my fortune in other things. (Solin) Such as? (Geary) Viagra. My brother learned to take a personal problem and profit by it. (Arik) It’s true. It pained me to see a man as young as Arik stricken with impotency. Therefore I had to do something to help the poor soul. But alas, there’s nothing to be done for it. He’s as flaccid as a wet noodle. (Solin) How creative of you to project your problem onto me. But then, they say celibacy is enough to make a man lose all reason. Guess you’re living proof, huh? (Arik)

    Brother   Men   Creative  
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