#profits

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 acquisition by dishonest means and cunning,' said Levin, feeling that he was incapable of clearly defining the borderline between honesty and dishonesty. 'Like the profits made by banks,' he went on. 'This is evil, I mean, the acquisition of enormous fortunes without work, as it used to be with the spirit monopolists. Only the form has changed. Le roi est mort, vive le roi! Hardly were the monopolies abolished before railways and banks appeared: just another way of making money without work. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#banks #earnings #labor #leo-tolstoy #monopolies

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

Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs. ↗

— Michael Badnarik

#caused #crimes #criminals #enter #gang

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product. ↗

— Russell Baker

#being #journalism #product #profits #street

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the "four P's" - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#concerned #executives #far #four #making

It's not just a hurricane. It's the demand for gas in China... We're paying $3 a gallon, and the oil companies are making historic profits every quarter. ↗

— Ron Klein

#companies #demand #every #gallon #gas

Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No. ↗

— Philip Roth

#profits #protect #run #should #yes

He has committed the crime who profits by it. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#crime #profits #who

Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home. ↗

— Ted Strickland

#american #american workers #built #expense #freedom