Quotes with profit-seeking

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  • Charles Sawyer Profit is the ignition system of our economic engine.
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  • Jalal-Uddin Rumi Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure.
    Jalal-Uddin Rumi
    Persian poet (1207 - 1273)
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  • Josh Billings Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson 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
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Buzz Aldrin The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • George Grosz 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.
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  • Thomas Arnold The distinction between Christianity and all other systems of religion consists largely in this, that in these other men are found seeking after God, while Christianity is God seeking after man.
    Thomas Arnold
    English educator and historian (1795 - 1842)
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  • Billy Graham The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
    The quotable Billy Graham (1966)
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Umberto Eco The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Warren Buffett The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • François Fénelon The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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  • Plato The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Juvenal The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Winston Churchill The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Dale Carnegie The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Jean Paul Getty There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.
    Jean Paul Getty
    American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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  • Charles Baudelaire There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Blaise Pascal There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • William Shakespeare These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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