Quotes About Profit

It was really my experience at Standing Rock that was pretty pivotal for me because I saw how corporations were literally militarizing themselves against American citizens so that they could kind of maximize their profit margins on fossil fuels.

The top-tier teams, it's about winning. It's about filling the stands and making enough money to pay for the other sports.

A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.

Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.

We must not close our eyes to the fact that there are conspiring men who would pollute young boys, and girls of corresponding age, for sake of increasing profits.

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

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.

Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.

On this system the main contractor was not the employer of the navvies. This then was the classical method which ensured expedition and profit, and kept the main contractor free from any direct responsibility for the navvies. Only a few

Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale. What used to be apocalyptic fantasy is today no more than sober realism....

Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests of cotton and slavery threatened our political integrity before the Civil War, so now the great special business interests too often control and corrupt the men and methods of government for their own profit. We must drive the special interests out of politics.

If you wish to draw profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faith, and never with the design of gaining a reputation for learning.

There is naturally in every man a desire to know, but what profiteth knowledge without the fear of God?

If thou knewest the whole Bible, and the sayings of all the philosophers, what should all this profit thee without the love and grace of God?

Thou wilt be quickly deceived if thou lookest only upon the outward appearance of men, for if thou seekest thy comfort and profit in others, thou shalt too often experience loss. If thou seekest Jesus in all things thou shalt verily find Jesus, but if thou seekest thyself thou shalt also find thyself, but to thine own hurt. For if a man seeketh not Jesus he is more hurtful to himself than all the world and all his adversaries.

What doth it profit thee to enter into deep discussion concerning the Holy Trinity, if thou lack humility, and be thus displeasing to the Trinity?

Do not those who always seek consolation deserve to be called mercenaries? Do not those who always think of their own profit and gain prove that they love themselves rather than Christ? Where can a man be found who desires to serve God for nothing? Rarely indeed is a man so spiritual as to strip himself of all things. And who shall find a man so truly poor in spirit as to be free from every creature? His value is like that of things brought from the most distant lands.

For what would it profit us to know the whole Bible by heart and the principles of all the philosophers if we live without grace and the love of God? Vanity of vanities and all is vanity, except to love God and serve Him alone.

For what would it profit us to know the whole Bible by heart and the principles of all the philosophers if we live without grace and the love of God?

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

If a person wishes to gain freedom of spirit and not be always troubled, let him begin by not being frightened by the cross, and he will see how the Lord also helps him carry it and he will gain satisfaction and profit from everything.36

The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.

Let's face it - negativity sells records.