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The profits follow, and if we have remembered that, they have never failed to appear. — George W. Merck

The best businesses are really ones that can combine passion, profits, and purpose. — Tony Hsieh

Fear generates big profits. — Terry Pratchett

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. — Henry Ford

The ultimate profit of all businesses should be happiness. — Debasish Mridha

The food industry profits from providing poor quality foods with poor nutritional value that people eat a lot of. — Mark Hyman

I vote Democrat because I believe oil companies profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon at 15% isn't. — David Letterman

The best way to invest corporate profits is to give them to the employees. — Ricardo Semler

There are too few rich and too few profits. — Margaret Thatcher

Your profits reflect the success of your customers. — Ron Kaufman

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down ... — David Ricardo

Virtues may be made to serve whatever end profits you. Still, they exist and will influence your actions. Your choices. — Ann Leckie

Tobacco is the only industry that produces products to make huge profits and at the same time damage the health and kill their consumers. — Margaret Chan

There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers. — Pete Domenici

The killers are the people who are ruining the world to line their pockets, poisoning us, burying us under garbage! — John Brunner

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment. — Noam Chomsky

Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits. — Alex Berenson

Grant me profits only, grant me the joy of profit made,
and see to it that I enjoy cheating the buyer! — Ovid

Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits. — Jeremy Grantham

When I began working in not-for-profits, it was taking a vow of poverty, which eliminated huge numbers of folks. — Geoffrey Canada

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits. — Denis Waitley

The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits. — M. Night Shyamalan

All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well. — John Stuart Blackie

The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists. — Walter Ulbricht

Hillary Clinton understands that a president's job is to worry about future generations, not the short-term profits of the fossil fuel industry. — Bernie Sanders

Private insurance companies in America are reaping huge profits. — Bernie Sanders

Entrepreneurs make profits by serving the needy. Politicians make profits by creating the needy. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors. — Benjamin Graham

Profits are part of the mechanism by which society decides what it wants to see produced. — Henry Wallich

By some analysts' estimates, the Cupertino company now pockets as much as 80 percent of the profits of the entire cellphone handset business. — Brent Schlender

Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions. — Tony Hsieh

When the media enjoy such excessive profits from this mass hysteria, what incentive do they have to restrain it? — T. Rafael Cimino

The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth. — Robert Pollin

Medicine is for the patient.
Medicine is for the people.
It is not for the profits. — George W. Merck

For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four. — Peter Drucker

Over-all, we probably would have retained better prospects for the next five years if profits had not risen so dramatically this year. — Warren Buffett

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

Less volatile stocks tend to have negative abnormal profits; more volatile stocks tend to have positive abnormal profits. — Robert Haugen

The proper man understands equity, the small man profits. — Confucius

I don't get money from the vitamins that I make. My after tax profits go to a foundation that supports integrative medicine. — Andrew Weil

Socialism will be here the day we share our profits to the degree we share our failures. — Malcolm Forbes

More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them. — Sophocles

the Carnegie way of doing things: calculate the productivity of every worker and every machine, cut costs, maximize profits, then repeat — Paul Beck

It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country ... but the profits ... skyrocket ... — Smedley Butler

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

The trouble is that profits end up serving as a stand-in, or proxy, for truth. — Cathy O'Neil

between 1885 and 1908 the pursuit of growth and profits cost the lives of 6 million individuals (at least 20 per cent of the Congo's population). — Yuval Noah Harari

There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses. — Cristina Kirchner

This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people. — Walter Ulbricht

Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right. — John Milton

Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits. — Stephen Young

When Hobby Lobby was created in the early 1970s, I was committed to use profits to help ministry work. — David Green

Within a year of O'Neilrs speech, Alcoa's profits would hit a rec- ord high. — Charles Duhigg

Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work. — Angela Davis

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the 'four P's' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders. — T. Boone Pickens

Who profits from a king's fidelity save generations a thousand years unborn, and which of his works will they recall at that remove, or care? — Steven Pressfield

Profits are what you make when not working. — Michael Pare

The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits. — Milton Friedman

The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits. — Smedley Butler

There is more than one way to measure profits and losses. On every level, institutions can and should have a heart. — Randy Pausch

Our world is certainly dangerous, but it is made more dangerous, not less, by those who value profits over peace. — Oscar Arias

What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings. — William Inge

He only profits from praise who values criticism. — Heinrich Heine

For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family. — Tony Abbott

Virtual business out sources all the work and in sources all the profits. — Mark Victor Hansen

When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits? — Richard Mitchell

Profits are better than wages. — Jim Rohn

Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning. — S. Truett Cathy

What do you bring to this enterprise to justify a third of the profits?" "Will," said Iago. — Christopher Moore

The first commitment is raise your salary. One of the ways to raise your salary sometimes is to have short-term profits but there are many other ways. — Noam Chomsky

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Whoever has a keen eye for profits, is blind in relation to his craft. — Sophocles

When a dreamer loses his lover, his dream profits. (Unless, of course, the lover was the dreamer's dream.) — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity. — David Ricardo

Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves. — Andrew Carnegie

Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward. — James Surowiecki

The whole area, manor house, Clink, all eighteen brothels and the handsome profits therefrom, belonged to and was ruled by the bishop. — Edward Rutherfurd

Deregulated marketplace: a brilliant method by which profits are privatized and losses are socialized. — Greg Palast

Delayed gratification is making a choice, constantly convincing yourself to hold back and pursuing immediate gain or profit. — Sunday Adelaja

As in the past, the costs and risks of the coming phases of the industrial economy were to be socialized, with eventual profits privatized ... — Noam Chomsky

We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers ... We must do what we can to fix this problem. — Stephanie Herseth

Change amuses the mind, but rarely profits. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Bombieri's Law: of Finance: Profits are on paper, losses are in cash — Enrico Bombieri

People. Products. Profits. In that order. — Ken Goldstein

The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits; ... — David Ricardo

America can no longer afford to get the Nobel Prizes while our competitors get the profits. — William J. Clinton

Ray and I do not draw salaries, Any profits will be re-invested into marketing the music we believe in. — Steve Vai

Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. — William Moulton Marston

There are more ways than one to measure profits and losses. — Randy Pausch

If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as "social gains", if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as "selfish greed". — Ayn Rand

Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire. — Jacques Amyot

Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are taxed away — Ludwig Von Mises

Mothers are the ultimate executives. Instead of raising profits they are raising humanity. — Virginia Burges

Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I. — Alan Ladd

The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life. — Sir John Richard Hicks

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

new faster, leaner non-profits are springing up everywhere. They engage, they show momentum — Dan Portnoy