Quotes with profit

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Bruce Vilanch 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.
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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  • Bob Dole Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.
    Bob Dole
    American politician and attorney (1923 - )
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  • Adolph P. Gouthey To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is as impossible as it is to live without being born.
    Adolph P. Gouthey
    American writer
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  • John Churton Collins To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
    John Churton Collins
    British literary critic (1848 - 1908)
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  • Boris Johnson Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix, and stay conscious.
    Beth Pearson, Has Howard got news for Boris?, The Herald (Glasgow), 13 November 2004, p. 15.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Lewis H. Lapham Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible.
    Lewis H. Lapham
    American essayist and editor (1935 - )
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  • George Orwell War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Machiavelli War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • William Shakespeare We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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