#profit

The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. ↗

— Mary Astell

#life #life is too short #matters #short #span

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#lost #money #nobody #profit #taking

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

#best #business #give #i #make

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product. ↗

— Russell Baker

#being #journalism #product #profits #street

I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#because #belong #cannot #compromises #grants

Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#arab #being #benefit #calculations #destroyed

We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit. ↗

— Sam Ewing

#after #born #everything #into #nothing

For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of science, and there weren't a lot of profits. ↗

— Rebecca Skloot

#done #get #growing #just #lot

The fate of the humanities faculty in the burgeoning world of for-profit higher education is easy to predict, but painful to contemplate. Universities that, by virtue of their very mission, validate economic efficiency and productivity above all else also sanction apathy toward the humanities. (p. 97) ↗

— Frank Donoghue

#humanities #education

Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation. ↗

— Ralph Allen

#always #cultural #forgotten #good #help