Quotes with profit-seeking

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  • André Gide Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Benigno Aquino III Both President Obama and I shared the conviction that territorial and maritime disputes in the Asia Pacific region should be settled peacefully based on international law. We affirm that arbitration is an open, friendly and peaceful approach to seeking a just and durable solution.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Barbara Jordan But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.
    Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe By seeking and blundering we learn.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - which is the mostest? which is the leastest? They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • Denis Waitley Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Arthur Miller Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 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
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • Boris Yeltsin Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges - challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Alan Cohen Eventually we grow weary of seeking treasures outside
    ourselves and we begin to look within. There we discover
    that the gold we sought, we already are.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Baruch Spinoza Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it we must direct our lives in such a way as to please the fancy of men, avoiding what they dislike and seeking what is pleasing to them.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Camille Paglia Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken 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.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Blake Mycoskie Giving builds loyal customers and turns those customers into supporters... You can find passion and profit and meaning all at once, right now.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Boethius Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don't you agree?
    De Consolatione Philosophia Book 4, Prose 2, 524. Translated from Latin by Ric
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see how useful it is to employ reason in seeking out the laws of taste.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Juliene Berk Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.
    Juliene Berk
    American author
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  • Benjamin Franklin He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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