#profit

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#corporation #device #individual #individual responsibility #ingenious

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#growth #investor #profit #today #yesterday

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#fluctuations #folly #friend #look #market

The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive. ↗

— Lee Child

#big #bigger #british #cliff #either

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#bottom #bottom line #contemporary #eliminates #expression

Some take pains to be biblical, but many [Christian financial teachers, writers, investment counselors, and seminar leaders] simply parrot their secular colleagues. Other than beginning and ending with prayer, mentioning Christ, and sprinkling in some Bible verses, there's no fundamental difference. They reinforce people's materialist attitudes and lifestyles. They suggest a variety of profitable plans in which people can spend or stockpile the bulk of their resources. In short, to borrow a term from Jesus, some Christian financial experts are helping people to be the most successful 'rich fools' they can be. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#finances #financial-planning #fool #foolish #hoarding

Friends, I'm angry about what's happening in politics today! Why is it wrong to ask the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations to pay their fair share? ↗

— Richard Trumka

#angry #ask #corporations #fair #fair share

Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have profitable connections with German chemical firms after the war ends. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#american #cases #chemical #connections #doing

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. ↗

— George Washington

#bought #dearly #derive #errors #experience

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#cause #change #cheaply #climate #climate change