#profit

Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have. ↗

— Mark Cuban

#being #being rich #broader #family #financial

In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic. ↗

— Mark Cuban

#benefits #celebrating #curtain #distasteful #encouraging

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. ↗

— Henry Ford

#absolutely #business #devoted #embarrassingly #large

What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history. ↗

— Barney Frank

#american #american history #because #could #encouragement

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#content #does #justice #lack #profits

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one. ↗

— Henry George

#just #profit #really #unjust #which

In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#companies #company #contribution #expressed #function

Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be. ↗

— Seth Godin

#because #easier #fading #governments #industries

Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#careful #chaste #clean #command #faithful

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#gather #grows #information #sleep #unprofitable