#profit

Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

#mankind #more #nothing #profitable #right

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people. ↗

— E. B. White

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If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work. ↗

— Nhat Hanh

#daily #daily life #everyone #happy #kind

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

— Thomas Hardy

#learn #pleasure #profit #read #which

I founded Netflix. I've built it steadily over 12 years now, first with DVD becoming profitable in 2002, a head-to-head ferocious battle with Blockbuster and evolving the company toward streaming. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#becoming #blockbuster #built #company #dvd

Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#cent #excess #greed #i #idiot

And if we are in this state, if we had an eternity of probation, what reason have we to suppose that we should profit by it - if we had ever so long a time to chose for ourselves we should pursue our own will, to gratify our carnal I desires. ↗

— Elias Hicks

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As soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the calculations of the capitalists in the investment of capital in newly-created branches of production. ↗

— Rudolf Hiferding

#branches #calculations #capital #capitalist #capitalists

The food industry profits from providing poor quality foods with poor nutritional value that people eat a lot of. ↗

— Mark E. Hyman

#food #food industry #foods #industry #lot

Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable. ↗

— Trey Parker

#profitable #right #sometimes