#profit

The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#excellence #less #more #profitable #pursuit

The one thing people seem to forget is the more oil we have, the lower the price and the lower the profits the oil companies make. ↗

— David Pratt

#forget #lower #make #more #oil

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#arrangement #business #called #derive #friendship

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#cannot #give #profit #we cannot #wisdom

All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on track to earn more than $100 billion before year's end. Yet, at the same time that Big Oil's bottom line is going up, so are Americans' energy costs. ↗

— Allyson Schwartz

#big #billion #bottom #bottom line #companies

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#driven #moguls #period #profit #respective

It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#effort #encouraged #human #human race #individuals

The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#business #capital #exists #great #money

A movie that costs only $1.6 million doesn't have to be a cultural event to turn a profit. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#cultural #event #million #movie #only

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception. ↗

— Sophocles

#comes #deception #even #profit #sweet