Search in quotes: profit

No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en.

Quote by William Shakespeare about philosophy, pleasure

The public, who consume the new commodity or profit by the new invention, are much better judges of its merit than the government can be.

Quote by Charles Babbage about invention, judges, merit, public

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

Quote by Richard Bach about affair

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

Quote by Scott Adams about nation, intelligence, people, contentment

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

Quote by Aeschylus about wisdom, things

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

Quote by Aeschylus about wisdom, things, man

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about society

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

Quote by Henry Ford about worry, affair

The employee who has performed his duties faithfully and without fault for 5 years will be given an increase of five cents per day in his pay - provided the profits allow it.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about commerce, day

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.

Quote by Thomas Paine about opinion, christianity, power, human imperfections

Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.

Quote by Trey Parker about rightness

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

Quote by Ron Paul about economy, war

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.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about meetings, pleasure

In the business world, lower profits reflect less demand for your product. But in government the opposite is true demand for our services increases in hard times.

Quote by Sonny Perdue about affair, world

On the other hand, they wanted to tax the windfalls or profits of the stock exchange. This time, I took the position of the rightists against it.

Quote by Shimon Peres about time

Duty that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about duty

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Quote by Dale Carnegie about success, man

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

Quote by Joseph Conrad about delusion

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

Quote by John Milton about respect, self-control, rightness, nothing

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

Quote by George Meredith about soul, body, nothing