#profit

The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#profit #freedom

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#end #in the end #operations #people #product

There is nothing to be embarrassed about being profitable. ↗

— Terry Semel

#being #embarrassed #nothing #profitable

Through their donations and work for voluntary organizations, the charitable rich exert enormous influence in society. As philanthropists, they acquire status within and outside of their class. Although private wealth is the basis of the hegemony of this group, philanthropy is essential to the maintenance and perpetuation of the upper class in the United States. In this sense, nonprofit activities are the nexus of a modern power elite. ↗

— Teresa Odendahl

#clinton #hegemony #non-profit #philanthropy #power-elite

The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#disproved #everything #folly #his #much

In the business world, lower profits reflect less demand for your product. But in government the opposite is true - demand for our services increases in hard times. ↗

— Sonny Perdue

#business world #demand #government #hard #hard times

If oil companies were to invest their high profits into alternative fuel research it will help America move toward new forms of energy. ↗

— Rick Renzi

#america #companies #energy #forms #fuel

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

Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term. ↗

— Michael Schudson

#ad #agency #chances #client #either