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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.
Author:
John Zorn
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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.
Author:
Chuck Zito
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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.
Author:
Xun Zi
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A person is born with a liking for profit.
Author:
Xun Zi
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Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?
Author:
Ed Wood
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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.
Author:
Steve Winwood
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The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
Author:
E. White
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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.
Author:
Bruce Vilanch
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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.
Author:
Paul Valery
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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.
Author:
Frederick Tennyson
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Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.
Author:
Johannes Tauler
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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.
Author:
William Sumner
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To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants.
Author:
Peter Stuyvesant
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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.
Author:
Maurice Strong
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Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year.
Author:
Howard Stringer
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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.
Author:
Ezra Stiles
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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.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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Although NFL teams have common interests such as promoting the NFL brand, they are still separate, profit-making entities, and their interests in licensing team trademarks are not necessarily aligned.
Author:
John Stevens
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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.
Author:
George Soros
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
Author:
Sophocles
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A movie that costs only $1.6 million doesn't have to be a cultural event to turn a profit.
Author:
Steven Soderbergh
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The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.
Author:
Frederick Soddy
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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.
Author:
Sam Sheppard
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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.
Author:
Connie Sellecca
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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.
Author:
Allyson Schwartz
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Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.
Author:
Joseph Schumpeter
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Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.
Author:
Tom Scholz
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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.
Author:
James Rouse
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I think right now the jury is out on where and how much profit is available in the consumer electronics industry, because if you look at the current consumer electronics players, the biggest ones on the planet struggle to make profit consistently.
Author:
Kevin Rollins
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Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
Author:
Richard Rogers
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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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.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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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.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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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.
Author:
David Ricardo
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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.
Author:
B. Reece
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Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
Author:
Quintilian
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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
Author:
Plutarch
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Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.
Author:
John Philips
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The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.
Author:
Tom Petty
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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.
Author:
Lester Pearson
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War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
Author:
Ron Paul
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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.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
Author:
George Orwell
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Our people get profit-sharing checks. I got a report the other day that says that 84 percent of our people participate in our stock purchase program, where they can buy stock at a 15 percent discount.
Author:
David Neeleman
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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.
Author:
Brian Mulroney
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I think anyone who uses the web is smart and will profit.
Author:
Jason Mraz
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If you count all your assets you always show a profit.
Author:
Wilson Mizner
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To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Author:
Wilson Mizner
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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.
Author:
Henry Miller
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Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
Author:
Arthur Miller
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There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.
Author:
George Meredith
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Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.
Author:
Natalie Merchant
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The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.
Author:
Moses Mendelssohn
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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.
Author:
H. Mencken
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When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.
Author:
Michael McKean
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Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions.
Author:
Robert McChesney
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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.
Author:
John Maxwell
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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.
Author:
Jose Marti
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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.
Author:
Orison Marden
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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.
Author:
Albert Maltz
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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.
Author:
John Lewis
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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.
Author:
Richard Lester
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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.
Author:
Donna Leon
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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Author:
Harper Lee
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In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.
Author:
Lajos Kossuth
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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.
Author:
Bill Janklow
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I think that George Lucas' 'Star Wars' films are fantastic. What he's done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films and poured it into developing digital sound and surround sound, which we are using today.
Author:
Peter Jackson
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Poets wish to profit or to please.
Author:
Horace
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In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
Author:
Thomas Hobbes
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Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
Author:
Thomas Hobbes
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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.
Author:
Rudolf Hiferding
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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.
Author:
Elias Hicks
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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.
Author:
Hesiod
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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.
Author:
John Hersey
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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
Author:
Thomas Hardy
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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.
Author:
Elizabeth Hardwick
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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.
Author:
George Grosz
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
Author:
Samuel Gompers
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The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.
Author:
Todd Gitlin
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Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
Author:
Paul Getty
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That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.
Author:
Henry George
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What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?
Author:
Robert Fulghum
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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Author:
Harry Fosdick
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Where we're living we have a certain amount of our profit every year it's like a percentage 5 or 7% or something like that that we set aside specifically for charity things.
Author:
Jon Fishman
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I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.
Author:
Diane Feinstein
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We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.
Author:
Sam Ewing
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Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
Author:
Arthur Erickson
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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.
Author:
Desiderius Erasmus
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
Author:
Pliny Elder
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While mainstream media is led by profit, ratings and popularist culture and filtered by the current political climate, Alternative Media is lead solely by the convictions of the campaign and film maker.
Author:
Ben Edwards
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Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.
Author:
Bob Dole
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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.
Author:
W. Deming
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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.
Author:
Peter Davies
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When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.'
Author:
Mitch Daniels
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All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.
Author:
Charles Cotton
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Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
Author:
Calvin Coolidge
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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!
Author:
Robert Collier
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For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
Author:
Jesus Christ
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When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
Author:
Shirley Chisholm
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You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
Author:
Paddy Chayefsky
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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?
Author:
Jerome Cavanagh
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Author:
Dale Carnegie
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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.
Author:
Alex Campbell
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
Author:
Warren Buffett
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The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
Author:
Warren Buffett
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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.
Author:
Jimmy Breslin
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A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.
Author:
Marvin Bower
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I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit.
Author:
Lisa Bonet
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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.
Author:
Uwe Boll
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Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
Author:
Josh Billings
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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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.
Author:
Michael Berryman
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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.
Author:
Daniel Bernoulli
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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.
Author:
Michael Bay
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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.
Author:
Anne Baxter
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I never lost money by turning a profit.
Author:
Bernard Baruch
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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.
Author:
Bernard Baruch
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Hollywood is going to have to find a way of meeting those profit goals.
Author:
Peter Bart
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I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity.
Author:
Roy Barnes
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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.
Author:
William Banting
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We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good.
Author:
Steve Ballmer
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How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.
Author:
Lucille Ball
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There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.
Author:
Abu Bakr
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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.
Author:
Richard Bach
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We need to take excellent care of our customers, and do so at a profit.
Author:
Gerard Arpey
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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.
Author:
Kofi Annan
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The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not.
Author:
Eric Anderson
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Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent.
Author:
Christiane Amanpour
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If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.
Author:
Woody Allen
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
Author:
Amos Alcott
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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.
Author:
Aeschylus
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Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
Author:
Scott Adams
