#profit

Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#esteemed #goes #into #know #least

With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#been #brethren #content #extraordinary #human

Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have profitable connections with German chemical firms after the war ends. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#american #cases #chemical #connections #doing

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#cause #change #cheaply #climate #climate change

If a product's future is unlikely to be remarkable - if you can't imagine a future in which people are once again fascinated by your product - it's time to realize that the game has changed. Instead of investing in a dying product, take profits and reinvest them in building something new. ↗

— Seth Godin

#building #changed #dying #fascinated #future

Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year. ↗

— Howard Stringer

#company #did #free #last #last year

I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores vibrant and profitable. ↗

— John Green

#bookstores #crazy #i #i think #independent

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work. ↗

— Nhat Hanh

#daily #daily life #everyone #happy #kind

By definition startups usually do not turn a profit. ↗

— Kevin Harrington

#profit #turn #usually

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

— Thomas Hobbes

#men #nor #pleasure #profit #such