(1836 quotes found)
“Civilization and profit go hand in hand.”
Calvin Coolidge
“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.”
James Rouse
“Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“No profit grows where no pleasure is taken; In brief, sir, study what you most affect”
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.”
“Profit is the ignition system of our economic engine.”
Charles Sawyer
“Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity”
Arnold Bennett
“It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend”
Eric Sevareid
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