#profit

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

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

I think I have the best house in the world. I thank God to have it. I thank God that I finished it. And I hope that I will live enough to take profit of it. ↗

— Max Azria

#enough #finished #god #hope #house

I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction. ↗

— William Banting

#affliction #alike #am #being #constitutions

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#far #individual #only #profitable #society

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#nature #profit #right #state

We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#bought #got #investment #liquor #money

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit. ↗

— Josh Billings

#fools #fun #living #out #profit

A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture. ↗

— Uwe Boll

#around #budget #dark #dead #easier