Profit Quotes - Page 5

• It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

  John Hersey

  Children, Fall, Vision

  John Hersey (1960). “The Child Buyer”

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• What makes stocks valuable in the long run isn't the market. It's the profitability of the shares in the companies you own. As corporate profits increase, corporations become more valuable and sooner or later, their shares will sell for a higher price.

  Peter Lynch

  Running, Long, Investing

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• Y a veces empiezo a pensar que la vida humana es tan barata para las empresas estadounidenses como la vida animal, siempre que se obtengan grandes beneficios.

  Tom Scholz

  Animal, Pensamiento, América

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• When I visited coffee farms in Ethiopia, the farmers could not believe we spend a week's wages in their country on a cup of coffee in ours, because they see so little of the profits. Oxfam's fair trade campaign helps right this wrong.

  Colin Firth

  Country, Coffee, Believe

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• During the period of capital moving from one employment to another, the profits on that to which capital is flowing will be relatively high, but will continue so no longer than till the requisite capital is obtained.

  David Ricardo

  Moving, Moved On, Employment

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo, Esq., M.P.: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.380, London, J. Murray

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• Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. G.B. Stern "If you count all your assets, you always show a profit."

  Robert Quillen

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Being Thankful

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• Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Special, Advertising, Realizing

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.159, Vintage

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• Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.

  Tim Robbins

  War, Iraq, Cost

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• Si se abre la mente, las oportunidades de abordar tanto los beneficios como las condiciones sociales son ilimitadas. Es un proceso de innovación.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Opportunity, Innovation, Mind

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• Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Past, Bankers, Banking

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• At long as a stock is acting right, and the market is right, do not be in a hurry to take profits. One should never permit speculative ventures to run into investments.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Running, Acting Right, Long

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• Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production.

  David Ricardo

  Agriculture, Cost, Might

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (2000). “The Works of David Ricardo, Esq., M.P.: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.372, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits

  John F. Kennedy

  Jobs, Enough, Economy

  Address to the Economic Club of New York, delivered 14 December 1962, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it, a suspicion that cannot be totally ignored.

  Gerry Spence

  Quests, Slavery, Today

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.36, Macmillan

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• When people are against profits they're against business; when they're against business, they're against employment; when they're against employment, it's not surprising that a large number of them are unemployed.

  Richard J. Needham

  Numbers, People, Employment

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• Un operador con éxito es racional, analítico, capaz de controlar las emociones, práctico y orientado a los beneficios.

  Trucha de Monroe

  Éxito, Capaz, Emoción

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• La esclavitud, ya lo sabes, no es otra cosa que el trabajo involuntario de muchos. Por lo tanto, para deshacerse de la esclavitud es necesario que la gente no desee beneficiarse del trabajo forzado de otros y lo considere un pecado y una vergüenza. Pero van y suprimen la forma externa de la esclavitud y disponen que ya no se puedan comprar ni vender esclavos, y se imaginan y aseguran que la esclavitud ya no existe, y no ven ni desean ver que existe, porque la gente sigue queriendo y considerando bueno y correcto explotar el trabajo ajeno.

  Leo Tolstoy

  People, Wish, Doe

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• En el mundo económico hay todo tipo de instituciones que se apartan del modelo simple de precio/mercado en el que trabajé en una etapa anterior y que ha sido la corriente principal de las teorías económicas desde Adam Smith y David Ricardo. Existen todo tipo de relaciones contractuales entre empresas y particulares que no se ajustan a la teoría simple de los precios - sistemas de reparto de beneficios, etc. - y la explicación de todo ello se hizo evidente de repente. Ahora entendemos por qué surgieron y que se basan en diferencias de información en la economía.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Simple, Diferencias, Mundo

  Fuente: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Pride, Equality, Trying

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Three, Chapter XIV, 1840.

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• A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men’s works, for his own memory sake, into short room.

  Roger Ascham

  Memories, Men, May

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• More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them.

  Sófocles

  Dirty, Men, Doom

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Sophocles”

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• Privacy, after all, was the most relative of privileges. It was granted us by society under ungenerous conditions, the most fundamental of them that whether for pain or profit, by design or accident, we not call public attention to ourselves.

  Diana Trilling

  Pain, Design, Attention

  Diana Trilling (1981). “Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor”, Harcourt

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• Marriage is a lot of things-an alliance, a sacrament, a comedy, or a mistake; but it is definitely not a partnership because that implies equal gain. And every right-thinking woman knows the profit in matrimony is by all odds hers.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Marriage, Mistake, Thinking

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). "La provincia del corazón"

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• You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Age, Enlightenment, Half

  Paddy Chayefsky (1995). “The screenplays”

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• Even genius is tied to profit.

  Pindar

  Money, Genius, Tied

  Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”

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