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Even a cursory run through American history shows exceptionalism has been used to justify bloodshed, oppression, and profit.
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
My dream is to make the world sound better, but the only way to do that is to let businesses see that there is profit in it.
The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.
Some of the most successful products are born from a personal need to solve a problem rather than a desire to turn a profit.
I think canceling a game that is making a profit, along with destroying jobs and an online community, is entirely unethical.
The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious. [Lat., Cui homini dii propitii sunt aliquid objiciunt lucri.]
If you have company-owned stores, you make 100 percent of the profit from each one, but you have less entrepreneurial spirit.
The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.
It's no surprise companies that quickly grow in value attract those who may want to also profit from the hard work of others.
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.
Love works not for profit nor reward; yet God has ordained that great gain shall be the certain result of every labor of love.
Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.
Why is pot against the law? It wouldn't be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can't make a profit off it, would it?
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.
If the small government concept grows, we have fewer dollars leaving our pockets, we have more folks motivated to make a profit.
The culture around here is much less cutthroat than it is in, say, Silicon Valley, or even within the non-profit culture in D.C.
There isn't one thing the federal government does that anybody in Big Business would emulate, at least not in the profit sector.
Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!
There are many who condemn my crew and I for taking the law into our own hands and for taking on the barons of corporate profit.
When I have people trust me with their money, I am obligated to give them a great film. I am not obligated to give them a profit.
It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.
They're out there, this appalling idea that there are companies that profit - not just profit but profit enormously - through war.
Business is about profit, yes, and it is about more than profit. At its best, it is about expanding the possibilities of humanity.
Profit or loss is not guaranteed. That depends on the consumer and depends on the product. That's a risk that business people take.
Sell practical, tested merchandise at a reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings - and they will always come back.
Typically, we make money when we buy things. We count the profits later, but we know we have captured them when we buy the bargain.
So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
Our view is that just because Amazon can disrupt somebody else's profit stream, it doesn't mean that Amazon earns that profit stream.
In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.
For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.
Obesity is awesome from a Wall Street perspective. It's not just one disease - there are all sorts of related diseases to profit from.
When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.
Writers in a profit making economy are an exploitable commodity whose works are products to be marketed, and are so judged and handled.
When I was at university in Birmingham, I used to spend half my grant betting on horse racing. Seven terms out of nine, I made a profit.
Tobacco is the only industry that produces products to make huge profits and at the same time damage the health and kill their consumers.
We in America count on the profit motive to get people to do the right thing. That's our basic American notion when it comes to business.
Market-led globalization is leading to a race to the bottom, where efficiency and profit matter more than a fair share for working people.
Everything is always about people trying to make profit: Profits to this, profits to that, the more the merrier, and there's no end to it.
Food should come from the place of its origin, and stay there. It shouldn't spend its time crisscrossing the globe for the sake of profit.
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety,but profit.
All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments.
If you're in a system where you must make profit in order to survive. You are compelled to ignore negative externalities, effects on others.
You can't have a healthy society unless you have healthy companies that are making a profit, that are employing people and that are growing.
Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.
Multiplex cinema culture has created a level-playing field for directors where small budget movies are able to break even, even make profit.
An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made.