(1836 quotes found)
“That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.”
Amos Bronson Alcott
“Such is American business, I guess, where the desire for obscene profit mutes any discussion of conscience.”
Bill Watterson
“Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.”
Elizabeth Hardwick
“When the shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an economic support of every human right we possess and without it, all rights would soon disappear”
Dwight David Eisenhower
“It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.”
Esther Dyson
“I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.”
Richard Bach
“No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.”
Thomas Hardy
“The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.”
Warren Buffett
“The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.”
Pierre Charron
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