#profit

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. ↗

— Richard Rogers

#aesthetic #follows #form #our #principle

Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#gangster #playing #profitable #unfortunately #very

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does. ↗

— Paul Samuelson

#companies #does #enterprises #europe #hardly

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles. ↗

— Paul Samuelson

#become #before #canals #internet #later

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. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#carolina #constant #continent #indeed #indies

Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#cannot #day #even #good #good people

Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial - but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#bed #book #changed #congenial #corporate

I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.' ↗

— Chelsea Clinton

#academic #adage #difference #grandmother #happens

As a captain whose vessel is about to crash on the rocks empties its souls of doubt, so are the hesitant useful for throwing off of an enterprise nearing its end: blame must be cast in failure, profits divided easily in success. ↗

— Bauvard

#doubt #enterprises #failure #funny #hesitancy

Many small businesses would rather face an angry barbarian horde than tackle their cash flow statement or price a new product. ↗

— Nicole Fende

#profit #small-business #business