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.

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

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.

As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.

We approach closer and closer to socialism.

In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity.

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.

To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants.

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?

The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

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?

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

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.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

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.

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.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can wreak havoc on their quality of life and economic viability. When natural disasters strike, we must do all we can to assist the backbone of our economy.

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.

I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit.

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.

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.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

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.

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.

We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.

When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.

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.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.

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.

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

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.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.