#profit

Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit. ↗

— Paul Getty

#industries #notorious #operate #profit #their

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

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#learn #pleasure #profit #read #which

Today the Internet is run by private sector interests within the United States under the supervision of a nonprofit entity formed by the U.S. Department of Commerce. ↗

— Robin Hayes

#department #entity #formed #interests #internet

He only profits from praise who values criticism. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#only #praise #profits #values #who

We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem. ↗

— Stephanie Herseth

#boasting #companies #consumers #fix #multinational

Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit. ↗

— Hesiod

#freight #greater #large #larger #load

This land may be profitable to those that will adventure it. ↗

— Henry Hudson

#land #may #profitable #those #will

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. ↗

— George Orwell

#classes #country #foreign #foreign country #going

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

#dearly #derive #great #instruction #makes