Profit maximisation — An attempt to make as much profit as possible in a given time period

Profit satisficing

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The way you really find out about the performer's seriousness about the cause is how long they stay with it when the spotlight gets turned off. You see a lot of celebrities switch gears. They go from the environment to animal rights to obesity or whatever. That I don't have a lot of respect for.

You have to work with people you really love.

To be appreciated by a whole 'nother generation of fans, all of a sudden discovering you, it's kind of what I did with the classic bands I love - the ones that influenced me.

I consider myself very much a team player.

It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave me a tennis racquet for Christmas, tennis is a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any age. It's also something you never forget once you learn.

Trust the acting.

Reason is powerless in the expression of love.

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

For me, what is most important is the element of surprise. If I can surprise you with every film of mine, that is exactly what I am trying to do.

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.

It is important to remember that I am not in the G-8; I am just an invited guest.

When I was getting injured so much, I spoke to my family and my manager and said, 'I need my body to recover.' The first thing I thought was that I needed to stay upright. When I went back to Brazil to play, after a few months, my body was perfect.

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

As an athlete, you are literally programmed to endure a specific amount of pain.

I'm still a fiscal conservative, and I'm inclined to pay down debt.

It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.

Life is to blame for everything.

This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

The greatest danger to our future is apathy.

In anything, I always give my all. I'm not a good loser.

Wait for the person who will do anything to be your everything.

I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.

Even the poorest in Israel are looked upon as freemen who have lost their possessions, for they are the sons of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.