#profit

When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit. ↗

— Albert Maltz

#belief #certainly #communist #found #future

Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. ↗

— William Moulton Marston

#defeat #important #knowledge #offers #personality

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. ↗

— John C. Maxwell

#big #big enough #correct #enough #his

Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#doing #institutions #maximize #maximizing #mean

What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence? ↗

— Jerome Cavanagh

#city #country #down #fear #man

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses. ↗

— Shirley Chisholm

#comes #loses #morality #profit #seldom

Civilization and profit go hand in hand. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#go #hand #profit

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#attention #convert #converts #desire #economic

With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing. ↗

— Toshihiko Fukui

#balance sheets #banks #businesses #continue #existing

The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry. ↗

— James Larkin

#cannot #carry #carrying #employers #good