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Understanding Profitability

Don Hofstrand, extension value-added agriculture specialist, co-director Ag Marketing Resource Center, 641-423-0844, [email protected]

Profitability is the primary goal of all business ventures. Without profitability the business will not survive in the long run. So measuring current and past profitability and projecting future profitability is very important.

Profitability is measured with income and expenses. Income is money generated from the activities of the business. For example, if crops and livestock are produced and sold, income is generated. However, money coming into the business from activities like borrowing money do not create income. This is simply a cash transaction between the business and the lender to generate cash for operating the business or buying assets.

Expenses are the cost of resources used up or consumed by the activities of the business. For example, seed corn is an expense of a farm business because it is used up in the production process. Resources such as a machine whose useful life is more than one year is used up over a period of years. Repayment of a loan is not an expense, it is merely a cash transfer between the business and the lender.

Profitability is measured with an “income statement”. This is essentially a listing of income and expenses during a period of time (usually a year) for the entire business. Decision Tool Income Statement - Short Form, is used to do a simple income statement analysis. An Income Statement is traditionally used to measure profitability of the business for the past accounting period. However, a “pro forma income statement” measures projected profitability of the business for the upcoming accounting period. A budget may be used when you want to project profitability for a particular project or a portion of a business.

Reasons for Computing Profitability

Whether you are recording profitability for the past period or projecting profitability for the coming period, measuring profitability is the most important measure of the success of the business. A business that is not profitable cannot survive. Conversely, a business that is highly profitable has the ability to reward its owners with a large return on their investment.

Increasing profitability is one of the most important tasks of the business managers. Managers constantly look for ways to change the business to improve profitability. These potential changes can be analyzed with a pro forma income statement or a Partial Budget. Partial budgeting allows you to assess the impact on profitability of a small or incremental change in the business before it is implemented.

A variety of Profitability Ratios (Decision Tool) can be used to assess the financial health of a business. These ratios, created from the income statement, can be compared with industry benchmarks. Also, Income Statement Trends(Decision Tool) can be tracked over a period of years to identify emerging problems.

Accounting Methods

Cash Method of AccountingTraditionally farmers have used the “cash method” of accounting where income and expenses are reported on the income statement when products are sold or inputs are paid for. The cash method of accounting, used by most farmers, counts an item as an expense when it is purchased, not when it is used in the business. This has been used as a method of managing tax liability from year to year. However, many non-farm business accounting systems count an item as an expense only when it is actually used in the business activities.

However, net income can be distorted with the cash method of accounting by selling more than two years crops in one year, selling feeder livestock purchased in a previous year, and purchasing production inputs in the year before they are needed.

Accrual Method of AccountingTo provide a more accurate picture of profitability, the accrual method of accounting can be used. With this method, income is reported when products are produced (not when they are sold) and expenses are reported when inputs are used (not when they are purchased). Accrual accounting uses the traditional cash method of accounting during the year but adds or subtracts inventories of farm products and production inputs on hand at the beginning and ending of the year.

A worksheet for computing Net Farm Income Statement (Decision Tool) with accrual accounting is available that contains schedules for including beginning and ending inventories. Information on creating and using a Net Farm Income Statement is also available.

Although seldom used in farming, Double Entry Accounting (Information File Understanding Double Entry Accounting) will provide results similar to accrual accounting. Double entry accounting also updates the net worth statement every time an income or expense occurs.

Defining Profitability

Profitability can be defined as either accounting profits or economic profits.

Accounting Profits (Net Income)Traditionally, farm profits have been computed by using “accounting profits”. To understand accounting profits, think of

your income tax return. Your Schedule F provides a listing of your taxable income and deductible expenses. These are the same items used in calculating accounting profits. However, your tax statement may not give you an accurate picture of profitability due to IRS rapid depreciation and other factors. To compute an accurate picture of profitability you may want to use a more accurate measure of depreciation.

Accounting profits provide you with an intermediate view of the viability of your business. Although one year of losses may not permanently harm your business, consecutive years of losses (or net income insufficient to cover living expenditures) may jeopardize the viability of your business.

Economic ProfitsIn addition to deducting business expenses, opportunity costs are also deducted when computing “economic profits”. Opportunity costs relate to your money (net worth), your labor and your management ability. If you were not farming, you would have your money invested elsewhere and be employed in a different career. Opportunity cost is the investment returns given up by not having your money invested elsewhere and wages given up by not working elsewhere. These are deduced, along with ordinary business expenses, in calculating economic profit.

Economic profits provide you with a long-term perspective of your business. If you can consistently generate a higher level of personal income by using your money and labor elsewhere, you may want to examine whether you want to continue farming.

Profitability is not Cash Flow

People often mistakenly believe that a profitable business will not encounter cash flow problems. Although closely related, profitability and cash flow are different. An income statement lists income and expenses while the cash flow statement lists cash inflows and cash outflows. An income statement shows profitability while a cash flow statement shows liquidity.

Many income items are also cash inflows. The sale of crops and livestock are usually both income and cash inflows. The timing is also usually the same (cash method of accounting) as long as a check is received and deposited in your account at the time of the sale. Many expense items are also cash outflow items. The purchase of livestock feed is both an expense and a cash outflow item. The timing is also the same (cash method of accounting) if a check is written at the time of purchase.

However, there are many cash items that are not income and expense items, and vice versa. For example, the purchase of a tractor is a cash outflow if you pay cash at the time of purchase as shown in the example in Table 2. If money is borrowed for the purchase using a term loan, the down payment is a cash outflow at the time of purchase and the annual principal and interest payments are cash outflows each year as shown in Table 3.

The tractor is a capital asset and has a life of more than one year. It is included as an expense item in an income statement by the amount it declines in value due to wear and obsolescence. This is called “depreciation”. The depreciation expense is listed every year. In the tables below a $70,000 tractor is depreciated over seven years at the rate of $10,000 per year.

Depreciation calculated for income tax purposes can be used. However, to accurately calculate net income, a more realistic depreciation amount should be used to approximate the actual decline in the value of the machine during the year.

In Table 3, where the purchase is financed, the amount of interest paid on the loan is included as an expense, along with depreciation, because interest is the cost of borrowing money. However, the principal payments are not an expense but merely a cash transfer between you and your lender.

Other Financial Statements

An income statement is only one of several financial statements that can be used to measure the financial strength of a business. Other common statements include the balance sheet or net worth statement and the cash flow statement, although there are several other statements that may be included.

These statements fit together to form a comprehensive financial picture of the business. The balance sheet or Net Worth Statement shows the solvency of the business at a specific point in time. Statements are often prepared at the beginning and ending of the accounting period (i.e. January 1). The statement records the assets of the business and their value and the liabilities or financial claims against the business (i.e. debts). The amount by which assets exceed liabilities is the net worth of the business. The net worth reflects the amount of ownership of the business by the owners.

The Cash Flow Statement is a dynamic statement that records the flow of cash into and out of the business during the accounting period. A positive (negative) cash flow will increase (decrease) the working capital of the business. Working capital is defined as the amount of money used to facilitate business operations. It is calculated as current assets (cash or near cash assets) less current liabilities (liabilities due during the upcoming accounting period).

A Complete set of Financial Statements (Decision Tool), including the beginning and ending net worth statements, the income statement, the cash flow statement, the statement of owner equity and the financial performance measures is available to do a comprehensive financial analysis of your business.

To help you assess the financial health of your business, Financial Performance Measures allows you to give your business a check-up. Interpreting Financial Performance Measures helps you to understand what these performance measures mean for your business.

Profit Quotes

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

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. John C. Maxwell

A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture. Uwe Boll

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

A person is born with a liking for profit. Xun Zi

Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit. Hesiod

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid. Elizabeth Hardwick

All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go. Charles Cotton

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. Thomas Paine

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

And if we are in this state, if we had an eternity of probation, what reason have we to suppose that we should profit by it - if we had ever so long a time to chose for ourselves we should pursue our own will, to gratify our carnal I desires. Elias Hicks

As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence. Alex Campbell

As soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the calculations of the capitalists in the investment of capital in newly-created branches of production. Rudolf Hiferding

Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index. Natalie Merchant

“Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.”

Scott Adams quotes (American Cartoonist, b.1957)

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“I don't accept the maxim 'there's no gain without pain', physical or emotional. I believe it is possible to develop and grow with joy rather than grief. However, when the pain comes my way, I try to get the most growth out of it.”

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“Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.”

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“Civilization and profit go hand in hand.”

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“If you count all your assets, you always show a profit”

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“Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources”

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“Profit is the ignition system of our economic engine.”

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“It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.”

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“The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others”

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“Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think.”

Lope de Vega quotes (Outstanding dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age, author of as many as 1800 plays, 1562-1635)

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“No profit grows where there is no pleasure taken”

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“He that requires a benefit pays a great deal”


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“Biggest profits mean gravest risks.”

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“And gain is gain, however small”

Robert Browning quotes (Major English Poet of the Victorian age, noted for his mastery of dramatic monologue and psychological portraiture. 1812-1889)


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“If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.”

Jimmy Breslin quotes (American journalist, b.1930)

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“A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.”

John C. Maxwell quotes (American Entrepreneur, Author and motivational speaker)

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“Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream - but create!”

Robert Collier quotes (American motivational author, 1885-1950)

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“If you mean to profit, learn to please.”

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“Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.”

Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)

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“To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is as impossible as it is to live without being born.”

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“Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.”

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“Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.”

Henry Miller quotes (American Author and Writer, 1891-1980)

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“Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.”

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“If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?”

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Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production. Joseph A. Schumpeter

Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can wreak havoc on their quality of life and economic viability. When natural disasters strike, we must do all we can to assist the backbone of our economy. Ruben Hinojosa

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end. H. L. Mencken

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. Richard Rogers

Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year. Howard Stringer

Hard Day's Night was one of those great films that will never happen again to anyone in their lifetime. UA were in profit before we'd even finished shooting - The advance sales on the album - the film was out before the album was out was more than it cost UA to make the film. Richard Lester

Hollywood is going to have to find a way of meeting those profit goals. Peter Bart

How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them. Lucille Ball

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die. Xun Zi

I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction. William Banting

I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based. Brian Mulroney

I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit. Sam Sheppard

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service. Richard Bach

I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit. Lisa Bonet

I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them. Lester B. Pearson

I never lost money by turning a profit. Bernard Baruch

I think anyone who uses the web is smart and will profit. Jason Mraz

“Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.”

Warren Buffett quotes

Luxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins.

Bernard Arnault - Luxury - Products - Profits - Margin

We lose money on signing up the customers where there's some marketing costs associated with giving them a free month. It doesn't much matter whether you make a little bit or lose a little bit.. as you well know, because you lose a ton on every copy of The Washington Post (newspaper).

Steve Case - Money - Marketing - Customers - Profits

A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. A visionary company doesn't simply balance between preserving a tightly held core ideology and stimulating vigorous change and movement; it does both to an extreme.

Jim Collins - Companies - Idealism - Vision - Profitable - Change

If the firms that employ an increasing majority of the population are driven solely to satisfy the owner's greed at the expense of working conditions, of the stability of the community, and of the health of the environment, chances are that the quality of our lives will be worse than it is now.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Environment - Business Ethics - Greed - Profits - Companies - Jobs

Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define themselves as profit-making machines whose only reason for existing is to satisfy escalating expectation for immediate gain.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Business Ethics - Leadership - Business - Profits - Jobs - Responsibility

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.

Milton Friedman - Freedom - Economy - Partnership - Profits

The message from Wal-Mart today to the rest of the business community is there need not be any conflict between the environment and the economy. We will find the way not only to reconcile (those), but to find new profits and new opportunities as we do the right thing.

Al Gore - Environmental - Economy - Business - Profits - Opportunities

There are many who still do not believe that global warming is a problem at all. And it's no wonder: because they are the targets of a massive and well-organized campaign of disinformation lavishly funded by polluters who are determined to prevent any action to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming out of a fear that their profits might be affected if they had to stop dumping so much pollution into the atmosphere.

Al Gore - Environmental - Profits - Problems - Fear - Determination

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

Alan Greenspan - Success - Truth - Profits - Partnership

In business, you’re trying to make a buck. God was good to me and blessed me. I made some money and started this foundation years ago, and it has grown in size. With the foundation it’s a lot different, because the bottom line isn’t how you can make more money or get a better return, it’s helping the projects that you feel strongly about move forward.

Lee Iacocca - Business - Money - Philanthropy - God - Profits

Never be frightened to take a profit. Better in your pocket then theirs.

Michael Levy - Fear - Profits

When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don't know when you can find the bottom.

Peter Lynch - Stocks - Profits -

For equity markets, the combination of low interest rates, strong economic growth and low inflation has proved very beneficial, with global share markets rising solidly in each of the past three years. This has been underpinned by strong growth in profits so that, notwithstanding the rise in share prices, P/E ratios have been declining on average.

Ian Macfarlane - Growth - Economy - Stock Market - Profits

I do not believe maximizing profits for the investors is the only acceptable justification for all corporate actions. The investors are not the only people who matter. Corporations can exist for purposes other than simply maximizing profits.

John Mackey - Profits - Investing - Business Ethics

I think one of the most misunderstood things about business in America is that people are either doing things for altruistic reasons or they are greedy and selfish, just after profit. That type of dichotomy portrays a false image of business. It certainly is a false image of Whole Foods. The whole idea is to do both: The animals have to flourish, but in such a way that it'll be cheap enough for the customers to buy it.

John Mackey - Customers - Business - Business Ethics - American - Greed - Profits

One of the most ironic things about capitalism is that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang himself with. Actually they will give you the money to make a movie that makes them look bad, if they believe they can make money off it.

Michael Moore - Capitalism - Greed - Profits - Money

The self-anointed media elite among us believe, somewhat self-servingly, that not only the act, or process of making a profit is positively sinister, but also that the very desire to do so is.

Lachlan Murdoch - Media - Belief - Profits - Criticism

The profit motive is not only fundamental to our ability to reward shareholders and pay employees; it's fundamental to excellent journalism. Far from corrupting the craft, profits enhance it. Expansion drives diversity and diversity protects and strengthens our craft.

Lachlan Murdoch - Growth - Journalism - Media - Profits - Employee - Stocks - Strength - Diversity

The industry is littered with self-styled purists who believe the business of media.. the requirement to make a profit.. somehow corrupts the craft.

Lachlan Murdoch - Business - Media - Belief - Profits

I have been privileged to grow up retaining the love of good journalism, the craft, while learning its business: the dollars and cents. I have learnt that they are not mutually exclusive but integrally self-reliant. Each dependent on the other.

Lachlan Murdoch - Journalism - Business - Media - Profits - Money - Learning

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

Ralph Nader - Environmental - Innovation - Profits

Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest. We can talk about sales growth, profit growth, asset growth, but all of this probably will not happen without personal growth.

Jim Rohn - Self Help - Growth - Profits - Assets

The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind.

Li Ka Shing - Motivational - Profits - Encouragement

I don’t care about awards and public image. We know the business of entertainment. We worship our work, we worship our clients and we worship profitability.

Shailendra Singh - Work - Business - Profits - Passions

Harry is my elder brother. He is the wiser one who leads Percept, he shows us the path. My job is to run it, create the relationships, and run the business as profitably as I can. Harry acquires, merges, expands he is responsible for Percept’s growth.

Shailendra Singh - Growth - Wise - Leadership - Business - Profits - Relationships

Participant (Productions) is the only production company in town that has a double bottom line: social good plus financial returns. It's too early to tell how our returns are going to look - though all signs are promising - but social good is what we're really after.

Jeff Skoll - Media - Profits - Companies - Business Ethics - Social - Earnings

This morning, prompted by increasing concerns about terrorism, oil prices reached a record high as the cost of a barrel of crude is a whopping $44.34. Wow, it seems shocking that a product of finite supply gets more expensive the more we use it. Now the terror alert means higher oil prices, which oddly enough means higher profits for oil companies giving them more money to give to politicians whose policies may favor the oil companies such as raising the terror alert level. As Simba once told us: "It's the circle of life."

Jon Stewart - Politicians - Profits - Products - Companies

The fact of the matter is that today, stuff-selling mega-corporations have a huge influence on our daily lives. And because of the competitive nature of our global economy, these corporations are generally only concerned with one thing.. the bottom line. That is, maximizing profit, regardless of the social or environmental costs.

David Suzuki - Companies - Profits - Products - Business Ethics - Social - Earnings - Influential - Environmental - Consumer

If you buy all the stocks selling at or below two times earnings, you will lose money on half of them because instead of making profits they will actually lose money, but you will only lose a dollar or so a share at most. Then others will be mediocre performers. But the remaining big winners will go up and produce fabulous results and also ensure a good overall result.

John Templeton - Stocks - Profits

The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services.

Brian Tracy - Success - Business - Products - Profits

When all is said and done, what must be remembered is a newspaper is a business. It used to be a fabulous business that made extraordinary margins. It's now a very good business with appropriate margins.

Sam Zell - Companies - News - Business - Media – Profits

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Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves. Anne Baxter

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful. Aeschylus

If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest. Jimmy Breslin

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work. Nhat Hanh

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right. Woody Allen

If you count all your assets you always show a profit. Wilson Mizner

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

Lajos Kossuth

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. Thomas Hobbes

It breaks even. We lose ten, twenty grand every year. But then the people who are working say, Look, I'll kick this back in, I don't need to take this profit share. It's very cooperative. John Zorn

It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up. William Graham Sumner

It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce. David Ricardo

It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense. John Hersey

“Such is American business, I guess, where the desire for obscene profit mutes any discussion of conscience.”

Bill Watterson quotes (American Author of the comic strip Calvin & Hobbes, b.1958)

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“When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.”

Ayn Rand quotes (Russian born American Writer and Novelist, 1905-1982)

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“The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.”

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“No profit grows where no pleasure is taken; In brief, sir, study what you most affect”

William Shakespeare quotes (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)

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“I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.”

Richard Bach quotes (American Writer, author of 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull', b.1936)

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“The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.”

Warren Buffett quotes

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“Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.”

Publilius Syrus quotes (Roman author, 1st century B.C.)

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“A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends”

Arabian Proverb quotes

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“In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them”

Napoleon Bonaparte quotes (French General, Politician and Emperor (1804-14). 1769-1821)

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“It is imperative to contest all factions for complete victory, so the army is not garrisoned and the profit can be total. This is the law of strategic siege.”

Sun Tzu quotes (Chinese General and Author, b.500 BC)

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Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't under-estimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care of social needs. George Soros

My head can get to murder and rape for profit because I can understand greed as a human motive, but I cannot understand the voyeuristic desire to watch such a film. I can comprehend one and I cannot comprehend the other. Donna Leon

Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit. Paul Getty

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure. Thomas Hardy

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit. Bernard Baruch

Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities. Maurice Strong

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed. Desiderius Erasmus

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. B. Carroll Reece

Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First Amendment veil in order to exploit children for the sake of corporate profit. Connie Sellecca

Poets wish to profit or to please. Horace

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression. Arthur Erickson

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them. W. Edwards Deming

Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.

James Rouse

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception. Sophocles

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart. Scott Adams

So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit who just so happens to be a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, we want that same consideration. Chuck Zito

Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the “The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.”

Dale Carnegie quotes (American lecturer, author, 1888-1955)

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“Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will”

Blaise Pascal quotes (French Mathematician, Philosopher and Physicist, 1623-1662)

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“An idealist is one who helps the other fellow to make a profit”

Henry Ford quotes (American industrialist and pioneer of the assembly-line production method, 1863-1947)

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“Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.”

William Wordsworth quotes (Major English Romantic Poet. 1770-1850)

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“Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.”

Ambrose Bierce quotes (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842-1914)

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“If only we could have two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, which seem as if they have to be made; and the second in which to profit by them.”

D.H. Lawrence quotes (British Poet, Novelist and Essayist, 1885-1930)

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“Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.”

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“Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise”

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“The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit”

Samuel Gompers quotes (English born American labour leader and first President of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). 1850-1924)

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“Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.”

Harry Emerson Fosdick quotes (American clergyman 1878-1969)

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A Quote by David Edwards on truth, lies, system, integrity, environment, global, human, power, profit, neurosis, paranoia, communism, extremism, and nonsense

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The forbidden truth is that we are living by a set of lies which are necessary for short-term profit, at the expense of human physical and psychological life and global environmental integrity. We are living in a system where power ensures that the requirements of profit take priority over the requirements of living things-including the need to know that this is the case. Consequently our freedom extends as far as, and no further than, the satisfaction of these requirements, with all else being declared neurosis, paranoia, communism, extremism, the work of the devil, or Neptunian nonsense.

David Edwards

Source: Burning All Illusions

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A Quote by Guy Kawasaki on cash flow, cash, and profit

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Focus on cash flow. I understand the difference between cash flow and profitability, and I'm not recommending that you strive for a lack of profitability. But cash is what keeps the doors open and pays the bills. Paper profits on an accrual accounting basis is of no more than secondary or tertiary importance for a startup. As my mother used to say, "Sales fixes everything."

Guy Kawasaki

Source: Five most important lessons I've learned as an entrepreneur: http://www.sun.com/solutions/smb/guest.jsp?blog=five_lessons

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A Quote by John Mackey on profit

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I do not believe maximizing profits for the investors is the only acceptable justification for all corporate actions. The investors are not the only people who matter. Corporations can exist for purposes other than simply maximizing profits.

John Mackey

Source: Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business: http://www.reason.com/news/show/32239.html


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A Quote by Steve Pavlina on profit, income, business, and passion

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Do what you love, but be damned sure it’s profitable. If you do work you love, but it doesn’t generate income, your business will fail. If you do work you hate, but it generates income, your health will fail… and your business along with it. If you can’t do what you love and make it profitable, you’ve either got a hobby or a headache, not a sustainable business. Don’t settle for anything less than passion and profit.

Steve Pavlina

Source: 10 Business Lessons From a Snarky Entrepreneur - http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/01/10-business-lessons-from-a-snarky-entrepreneur/


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A Quote by Richard Branson on profit and business

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...making profits is important because it keeps all our people in jobs and, you know, it keeps what we — what we’ve created going, but, you know, what we’re — what I get my — what I’m proud about doing is creating companies which we’re really proud of, you know, which we can really be proud of and a byproduct of that hopefully will be that they’ll be profitable and be able to pay the bills.

Richard Branson

Source: Transcript of Jane Pauley’s Interview with Sir Richard Branson: http://www.business-opportunities.biz/2005/10/19/transcript-of-jane-pauleys-interview-with-sir-richard-branson/


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A Quote by Ray Anderson on business, good business, conscious capitalism, profit, and corporate social responsibility

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The status quo is a very powerful opiate and when you have a system that seems to be working and producing profits by the conventional way of accounting for profits. It’s very hard to make yourself change. But we all know that change is an inevitable part of business. Once you have ridden a wave just so far, you have to get another wave. We all know that. For us, becoming restorative has been that new wave and we have been riding it for 13 years now. It’s been incredibly good for business.

Ray Anderson

Source: Ray Anderson on conquering Mount Sustainability: http://www.greenlivingonline.com/Business/ray-anderson-conquering-mount-sustainability-and-inspiring-us-along-the-way/


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A Quote by Ray Anderson on business, profit, and purpose

in business profit purpose

...there is no more strategic issue for a company, or any organization, than its ultimate purpose. For those who think business exists to make a profit, I suggest they think again. Business makes a profit to exist. Surely it must exist for some higher, nobler purpose than that.

Ray Anderson

Source: GNH 2: Ray Anderson Keynote: http://gpiatlantic.org/conference/proceedings/anderson.htm


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A Quote by Ray Anderson on sustainability, conscious business, conscious capitalism, business, and profit

in business conscious business conscious capitalism profit sustainability

During the last five years, those four advantages—costs, products, people, goodwill—have been the salvation of Interface during a recession that saw our primary marketplace shrink by 38% from peak to trough—38%! As a heavily leveraged company with over $400 million in debt, we might not have made it without the sustainability initiative and, especially, the support of our customers. This revised definition of success—this new paradigm—has a name: “Doing well by doing good”. It is a better way to bigger profits.

Ray Anderson

Source: GNH 2: Ray Anderson Keynote: http://gpiatlantic.org/conference/proceedings/anderson.htm


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A Quote by Yvon Chouinard on business, profit, goal, and process

in business goal process profit

...it's the same with business. If you focus on the goal and not the process, you inevitably compromise. Businessmen who focus on profits wind up in the hole. For me, profit is what happens when you do everything else right.

Yvon Chouinard

Source: TIME: Reaching the Top by Doing the Right Thing: http://www.time.com/time/reports/environment/heroes/heroesgallery/0,2967,chouinard,00.html


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A Quote by Larry Brilliant on philanthropy, google, people, profit, and money

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One percent of the equity, 1 percent of the profits, and 1 percent of the people go into Google.org. The most important asset isn’t money, it’s people. One percent of the people means 60 or 70 of the smartest people in the world trying to solve some of the biggest problems in the world.

Larry Brilliant

“When we cast our bread upon the waters, we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from that grantor's gift”

Maya Angelou quotes (American Poet, b.1928)

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“What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?”

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“It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.”

François de la Rochefoucauld quotes (French classical author, leading exponent of the Maxime, 1613-1680)

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“If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.”

Woody Allen quotes (American Actor, Author, Screenwriter and Film Director, b.1935)

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“If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.”

Thich Nhat Hanh quotes (Vietnamese Monk, Activist and Writer. b.1926)

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“Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.”

Josh Billings quotes (American Humorist, 1818-1885)

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“I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work -- a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this award is only mine in trust.”

William Faulkner quotes (American short-story Writer and Novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, 1897-1962)

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“War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other”

Paul Valery quotes (French Poet, Essayist and Critic, 1871-1945)

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“We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.”

Kofi Annan quotes (Ghanaian diplomat, seventh secretary-general of the United Nations, 2001 Nobel Peace Prize.)

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“There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.”

Jean Paul Getty quotes (American Industrialist and Founder of the Getty Oil Company, 1892-1976)

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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health. Robert Louis Stevenson

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. Amos Bronson Alcott

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one. Henry George

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others. Pliny the Elder

The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for the rest of this continent, they were constant losers in trade. Ezra Stiles

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.

George Grosz

The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense. Peter Maxwell Davies

The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent. L. Neil Smith

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth. Warren Buffett

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

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.Tom Petty

The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams. Steve Winwood

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. profit

A Quote by Peter Barnes on triple bottom line, shareholders, business, capitalism, profit, and corporation

in business capitalism Corporation profit shareholders triple bottom line

It is possible for a company to pursue multiple bottom lines if it’s closely held by a group of like-minded shareholders--that was the case at my former company, Working Assets. But once a corporation goes public--that is, sells stock to strangers—the die is pretty much cast. Strangers want a stock that will rise when they plunk down their money, and profit is the sure path to doing that. It’s just a matter of time, then, until the profit-maximizing algorithm kicks in.

Peter Barnes

Source: Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons (BK Currents), Pages: 53-54


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A Quote by Jim Hightower on greed, profit, corporation, business ethics, and ethics

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"The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit."

Jim Hightower

Source: Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country--And It's Time to Take It Back, Pages: 6

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A Quote by george soros on profit, money, business efficiency, and profit-making

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...The market is a hard task master: It does not allow either self-indulgence or consideration for others. What others think of you matters, but the results--measured by and objective criterion, money--matters more. Having an objective criterion encourages objective performance. That is what makes financial markets so efficient.: they turn people into profit-making machines. That has its merits, but a society dominated by financial markets could easily become inhuman. this is not a flight of fancy but a present danger.

george soros

Source: Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism, Pages: 36

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A Quote by John Mackey on business, conscious capitalism, purpose, customers, and profit

in business conscious capitalism customers profit purpose

But we have not achieved our tremendous increase in shareholder value by making shareholder value the primary purpose of our business. In my marriage, my wife's happiness is an end in itself, not merely a means to my own happiness; love leads me to put my wife's happiness first, but in doing so I also make myself happier. Similarly, the most successful businesses put the customer first, ahead of the investors. In the profit-centered business, customer happiness is merely a means to an end: maximizing profits. In the customer-centered business, customer happiness is an end in itself, and will be pursued with greater interest, passion, and empathy than the profit-centered business is capable of.

John Mackey

Source: Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business: http://www.reason.com/news/show/32239.html


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A Quote by Ludwig von Mises on entrepreneurship, entrepreneur, profit, economy, and money

in economy entrepreneur entrepreneurship money profit

The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.

Ludwig von Mises

Source: Human Action: A Treatise on Economics (Scholars Edition), Pages: 288

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A Quote by Steve Pavlina on passion, profit, and conscious capitalism

in conscious capitalism passion profit

Do what you love, but be damned sure it's profitable. If you do work you love, but it doesn't generate income, your business will fail. If you do work you hate, but it generates income, your health will fail… and your business along with it. If you can't do what you love and make it profitable, you've either got a hobby or a headache, not a sustainable business. Don't settle for anything less than passion and profit.

Steve Pavlina

Source: via: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/01/10-business-lessons-from-a-snarky-entrepreneur/


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A Quote by Mitch on cut corners, undermine, ego, and profit

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When you cut corners or when you undermine others for the sake of ego or profit, you are only hurting yourself.

Mitch Thrower

Source: "The Attention Deficit Workplace" by Mitch Thrower

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A Quote by Niccoló Machiavelli on difficult, doubtful, success, dangerous, initiate, new order, reformer, enemies, profit, old order, defenders, fear, adversaries, laws, incredulity, mankind, believe, and experience

in adversaries believe dangerous defenders difficult doubtful enemies experience fear incredulity initiate laws mankind new order old order profit reformer success

There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order, this lukewarmness arising partly from fear of their adversaries, who have the laws in their favour; and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had the actual experience of it.

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527)

Source: The Prince (Dover Thrift Editions)

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A Quote by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on profit, business, purpose, service, excellence, and creativity

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When each of these three elements of vision--concern for excellence, for people and for the wider environment--are present, business is transformed from a tool for making profits into a creative, humane experiment for improving life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Source: Good Business : Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning, Pages: 199

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A Quote by Michael Josephson on business, ethics, imagination, justice, and profit

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There's no such thing as business ethics; there's just ethics. And ethics makes no concessions for the real or imagined necessities of making a profit.

Michael Josephson

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There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician. Daniel Bernoulli

There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by. George Meredith

They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because they're working on the Oscars show. It's the biggest show in the world. Bruce Vilanch

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed. Bob Dole

To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants. Peter Stuyvesant

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

Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world. Tom Scholz

Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit. John L. Lewis

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it. Orison Swett Marden

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. George Orwell

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures. Ron Paul

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other. Paul Valery

We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so... we used to rotate crops back in the day and, you know, who cares if you're going to make a profit if everybody's too dead or glowing in the dark to be able to purchase anything. Michael Berryman

We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit. Sam Ewing

We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from. Jose Marti Profit Quotes

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What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank. Bill Janklow

What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul? Robert Fulghum

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

What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence? Jerome Cavanagh

What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone. Frederick Tennyson

When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit. Albert Maltz

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses. Shirley Chisholm

When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again. Michael McKean

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A Quote by William Shakespeare on profit, study, learning, and pleasure

in learning pleasure profit study

No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en:

In brief, sir, study what you most affect.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

Source: The Taming of the Shrew Act 1, Scene 1

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A Quote by William Shakespeare on good, losing, and profit

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We, ignorant of ourselves; Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

Source: Antony and Cleopatra, Act 2, scene 1.


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A Quote by William Penn on art, body, company, constitution, garden, good, idleness, mind, nature, profit, variety, and work

in art body company constitution garden good idleness mind nature profit variety work

A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work-house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art; whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing; and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.

William Penn (1644 - 1718)

Source: Some Fruits of Solitude In Reflections And Maxims, 1682


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A Quote by William Lawson on enemies, friendship, innocence, love, needs, pleasure, and profit

in enemies friendship innocence love needs pleasure profit

. . . store of bees, in a dry and warme bee-house, comely made of fir boards, to sing, and sit, and feede upon your flowers and sprouts, make a pleasant noyse and sight. For cleanly and innocent bees, of all other things, love and become, and thrive in your orchard. If they thrive (as they must needs if your gardiner be skilfull, and love them: for they love their friends and hate none but their enemies) they will besides the pleasure, yeeld great profit, to pay him his wages; yea the increase of twenty stock of stools with other bees, will keep your orchard.

William Lawson

Source: A New Orchard and Garden, 1618


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A Quote by William C. Menninger on absence, anxiety, creativity, experience, fear, freedom, giving, learning, maturity, profit, reality, satisfaction, and serenity

in absence anxiety creativity experience fear freedom giving learning maturity profit reality satisfaction serenity

In positive terms, we can state that psychological maturity entails finding greater satisfaction in giving than in receiving; having a capacity to form satisfying and permanent loyalties; being primarily a creative, contributing person; having learned to profit from experience; having a freedom from fear (anxiety) with a resulting true serenity and not a pseudo absence of tension; and accepting and making the most of unchangeable reality when it confronts one.

William C. Menninger


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A Quote by William A. Irwin on body, exercise, friendship, learning, life, needs, play, profit, relaxation, time, and value

in body exercise friendship learning life needs play profit relaxation time value

One of the best lessons that anyone can learn in life is how to use time wisely. Consider what can be done in ten minutes. If you need a little mental relaxation, you can sit down with a friend and play a game of cards. If you need some physical recreation, you can engage in a few exercises that will help tone up your body. Perhaps you have a friend who for weeks or months has been looking for a letter. Then there may be among your acquaintances someone whose friendship you would value highly and whose counsel would be profitable. Learn to use ten minutes intelligently. It will pay you huge dividends.

William A. Irwin


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A Quote by Dr. W. Edwards Deming on individuality, learning, needs, profit, and work

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What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.

W. Edwards Deming (1900 - 1993)


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A Quote by unknown on future, past, profit, present, and wisdom

in future past present profit wisdom

Wisdom: to live in the present, plan for the future, and profit from the past.

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A Quote by unknown on experience, goals, potential, and profit

in experience goals potential profit

It may be that the most benefit occurs when something is dealt with for its own sake, rather than for the attainment of some external goal. If one is too eager to wring profit from an experience, the potential slips through his grasping fingers.

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A Quote by unknown on mistakes, order, and profit

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In order for you to profit from your mistakes, you have to get out and make some.

Unknown

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A Quote by Ambrose Gwinett Bierce on corruption, politics, profit, and trust

in corruption politics profit trust

Corrupt, adj.: In politics, holding an office of trust or profit.

Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914)

Source: Not Your Average Dictionary


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A Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot on death and profit

in death profit

Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell And the profit and loss.

T.S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)

Source: The Waste Land, 1922, Death by Water


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A Quote by Thomas J. Watson on business, employees, leadership, philosophy, profit, and words

in business employees leadership philosophy profit words

Put First Things First! These four words cover an entire philosophy which can be applied with profit by every business leader, by every executive and by every employee.

Thomas Watson (1874 - 1956)

Source: Thomas J. Watson in Men–Minutes–Money, a Collection of Excerpts from Talks . . .


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A Quote by Thomas Paine on christianity, church, inventions, judaism, mankind, power, and profit

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All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)


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A Quote by Thomas á Kempis on god, good, knowledge, love, profit, thought, and trust

in God good knowledge love profit thought trust

Who is so wise as to have a perfect knowledge of all things? Therefore trust not too much to thine own opinion, but be ready also to hear the opinion of others. Thought thine own opinion be good, yet if for the love of God thou foregoest it, and followest that of another, thou shalt the more profit thereby.

Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)

Source: Of the Imitation of Christ


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A Quote by Theodore Roosevelt on human rights, profit, and welfare

in human rights profit welfare

The man who holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)


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A Quote by Samuel Gompers on company, crime, failure, people, and profit

in company crime failure people profit

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

Samuel Gompers (1850 - 1924)


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A Quote by Samuel B. Pettengill on profit, success, and worth

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The successful producer of an article sells it for more than it cost him to make, and that's his profit. But the customer buys it only because it is worth more to him than he pays for it, and that's his profit. No one can long make a profit producing anything unless the customer makes a profit using it.

Samuel B. Pettengill


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A Quote by Russell C. Leffingwell on age, children, community, democracy, destruction, effort, freedom, honesty, hope, individuality, men, privacy, profit, risk, and slavery

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There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise system. These are, in the end, inseparable. Those who would destroy freedom have only first to destroy the hope of gain, the profit of enterprise and risk-taking, the hope of accumulating capital, the hope to save something for one's old age and for one's children. For a community of men without property, and without the hope of getting it by honest effort, is a community of slaves of a despotic State.

Russell C. Leffingwell


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A Quote by Robert Quillen on profit

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If you count all your assets you always show a profit.

Robert Quillen


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A Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson on age, education, health, money, and profit

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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)


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A Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson on divinity, men, philosophy, poets, profit, sacred, and saints

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To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)


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A Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson on books, discovery, good, heart, mind, passion, profit, and thought

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'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

Source: Society and Solitude. Success


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A Quote by Publilius Syrus on advice and profit

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Many receive advice, but the wise profit from it.

Publilius Syrus (fl. 1st Cent. BC -)


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A Quote by Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus Pliny, the Younger on books and profit

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There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit

Pliny the Younger (c. 62 - c. 113)


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A Quote by Pierre Charron on deed, divinity, excellence, god, good, learning, nature, profit, study, wisdom, and world

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Pierre Charron (1541 - 1603)


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A Quote by Philip Salisbury on confidence and profit

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You cannot do away with the competitive system so long as trademarks remain to distinguish one product from another. You cannot cut out large-scale manufacture so long as there are established brands which breed consumer confidence and thus make mass production not only possible and profitable, but also economical.

Philip Salisbury


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A Quote by Paul Brooks on abuse, environment, health, laws, life, murder, privacy, profit, present, and understanding

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We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops.

Paul Brooks

Source: The Pursuit of Wilderness (1971)


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A Quote by Patrick Henry on profit

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Caesar had his Brutus-Charles the First, his Cromwell-and George the Third-('Treason,' cried the Speaker) . . . may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.

Patrick Henry (1736 - 1799)

Source: Speech in the Virginia Convention, 1765. W. Wirt’s Patrick Henry.


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A Quote by Orison Swett Marden on chance, education, opportunity, preparation, and profit

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Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)

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A Quote by Prophet Muhammad on day, god, learning, and profit

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The one who would have the worst position in God's sight on the Day of Resurrection would be a learned man who did not profit from his learning.

Muhammad (570 - 632)

Source: Sayings of Muhammad. by Prof. Ghazi Ahmad


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A Quote by Madame Marie Curie on desires, doubt, efficiency, good, humanity, impossibility, interest, life, men, needs, organize, practicality, profit, research, society, wealth, and work

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Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. Without doubt, these dreamers do not deserve wealth, because they do not desire it. Even so, a well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research.

Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)

Source: Eve Curie (trans. Vincent Sheean), Madame Curie, Simon and Schuster, NY, 1946


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A Quote by Malcolm S. Forbes on profit

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When profit is unshared it's less likely to grow greater.

Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)


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A Quote by Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis on absence, business, failure, profit, and success

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In business, the earning of profit is something more than an incident of success. It is an essential condition of success. It is an essential condition of success because the continued absence of profit itself spells failure.

Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856 - 1941)


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A Quote by John Maynard, Baron Keynes of Tilton on profit

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The engine which drives Enterprise is not Thrift, but Profit.

John Maynard (1883 - 1946)

Source: A Treatise on Money, 1930


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A Quote by John Locke on agriculture, army, dignity, fashion, idleness, men, profit, sports, thought, and understanding

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The great men among the ancients understood very well how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state, and thought it no lessening to their dignity to make the one the recreation to the other. That indeed which seems most generally to have employed and diverted their spare hours, was agriculture. Gideon among the Jews was taken from threshing, as well as Cincinnatus amongst the Romans from the plough, to command the armies of their countries . . . and, as I remember, Cyrus thought gardening so little beneath the dignity and grandeur of a throne, that he showed Xenophon a large field of fruit trees all of his own planting . . . Delving, planting, inoculating, or any the like profitable employments would be no less a diversion than any of the idle sports in fashion, if men could be brought to delight in them.

John Locke (1632 - 1704)

Source: Two Treatises of Government, 1698


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A Quote by John Gay on heaven, honor, kindness, mind, privacy, profit, resignation, and serenity

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Give me, kind Heaven, a private station, A mind serene for contemplation! Title and profit I resign; The pot of honour shall be mine.

John Gay (1685 - 1732)

Source: Fables, Part ii. The Vulture, the Sparrow, and other Birds.


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A Quote by John Churton Collins on advice, good, profit, and wisdom

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

John Churton Collins (1848 - 1908)


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A Quote by John Calvin Coolidge on failure, needs, profit, and service

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No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)


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A Quote by John C. Maxwell on correction, mistakes, and profit

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A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

John C. Maxwell

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A Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe on oppression and profit

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Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)


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A Quote by Joan Gilbert on history, profit, and sentimentality

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Every civilizing step in history has been ridiculed as 'sentimental', 'impractical', or 'womanish', etc., by those whose fun, profit or convenience was at stake.

Joan Gilbert (1931 -)


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A Quote by James Russell Lowell on bravery, cowardice, fame, justice, nobility, profit, prosperity, sharing, spirit, and truth

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Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.

James Lowell (1819 - 1891)

Source: The Present Crisis.


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A Quote by H. L. Mencken on friendship, interest, marriage, profit, and trust

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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. . . . Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)


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A Quote by Herbert John Gladstone on belief, dreams, life, profit, and time

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Believe me when I tell you that thrift of time will repay you in after life, with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams; and that waste of it will make you dwindle, alike in intellectual and moral stature, beyond your darkest reckoning.

Herbert John Gladstone (1854 - 1930)


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A Quote by Henry David Thoreau on books, college, pleasure, profit, and study

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Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

Source: 19 February 1854, Journal VI: 130


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A Quote by Harry Emerson Fosdick, D.D. on change, christianity, and profit

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Harry Fosdick (1878 - 1979)


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A Quote by George R. Harrison on gold, profit, and truth

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In the long run, digging for truth has always proved not only more interesting but more profitable than digging for gold.

George R. Harrison (1898 - ?)


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A Quote by François Fénelon on achievement, admiration, belief, certainty, children, cleverness, conformity, faith, happiness, humility, ideas, innocence, integrity, men, passion, pride, profit, prudence, salvation, simplicity, spirit, stability, women,

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There is a great difference between a lofty spirit and a right spirit. A lofty spirit excites admiration by its profoundness; but only a right spirit achieves salvation and happiness by its stability and integrity. Do not conform your ideas to those of the world. Scorn the "intellectual" as much as the world esteems it. What men consider intellectual is a certain facility to produce brilliant thoughts. Nothing is more vain. We make an idol of our intellect as a woman who believes herself beautiful worships her face. We take pride in our own thoughts. We must reject not only human cleverness, but also human prudence, which seems so important and so profitable. Then we may enter - like little children, with candor and innocence of worldly ways - into the simplicity of faith; and with humility and a horror of sin we may enter into the holy passion of the cross.

Francois Fenelon (1651 - 1715)

Source: Meditations


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A Quote by Francis Quarles on books, friendship, men, profit, and truth

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Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend, rather than the gloss of a sweet-lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.

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A Quote by Carl L. Becker on abuse, advertising, laws, lies, practicality, privacy, profit, questions, speech, and time

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No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?

Carl L. Becker


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A Quote by Siddhartha Gautama Buddha on good, kindness, profit, wealth, miser, hoard, riches, and treasure

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A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards up his riches will have no profit.

Buddha (563 - 483 BC)

Source: The gospel of Buddha - Page 27 by Gautama Buddha, Paul Carus, Olga Kopetzky


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A Quote by Blaise Pascal on clarity and profit

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Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.

Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)

Source: W. H. Auden and L. Kronenberger (eds.) The Viking Book of Aphorisms, New York: Viking Press, 1966.


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A Quote by Bernard Mannes Baruch on labor, men, profit, progress, sharing, society, and yielding

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Society can progress if men's labors show a profit - if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.

Bernard Baruch (1870 - 1965)


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A Quote by Benjamin Franklin on death, debt, honor, hope, hunger, idleness, life, needs, profit, taxes, trade, and wishes

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Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor; but then the trade must be worked at and the calling followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while idleness and neglect increase them.

Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)


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A Quote by Benjamin Franklin on honor, profit, and trade

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He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.

Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

Source: Correct Quotes for DOS, WordStar International, 1991.


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A Quote by B. C. Forbes on business, profit, satisfaction, and yielding

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Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

B. C. Forbes (1880 - 1954)


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A Quote by Ayn Rand on learning, profit, and reality

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When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.

Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)

Source: Atlas Shrugged, 1957


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A Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer on consequences, genius, music, nobility, painting, philosophy, poetry, profit, purpose, reward, and work

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Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)


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A Quote by Arthur Brisbane on life, losing, possibility, and profit

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Every minute that you save by making it useful, more profitable, is so much added to your life and its possibilities. Every minute lost is a neglected by-product - once gone, you will never get it back.

Arthur Brisbane (1864 - 1936)

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