#profit

If you put these five things together - you can't use money to attract talent, you can't advertise, you can't take risks, you can't invest in long-term results, and you don't have a stock market - then we have just put the humanitarian sector at the most extreme disadvantage to the for-profit sector on every level, and then we call the whole system charity, as if there is something incredibly sweet about it. ↗

— Dan Pallotta

#fundraising #non-profit #change

Love is Compassion, Endurance, Equanimity, Impartiality, Magnetic, Patient and Just (and Where Justice Is Not, Hate-Traders Profit) ↗

— Elizabeth Lucye Robillard

#profit #war #love

Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#capitalism #force #government #money #philosophy

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. ↗

— Aeschylus

#profitable #seem #thing #wise

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise. ↗

— Aeschylus

#man #many #profitable #things #wise

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#closed #delight #expectation #good #good book

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

I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#hope #i #make #movies #need

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart. ↗

— Scott Adams

#between #difference #expense #look #makes

We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#calculations #choose #driven #face #global