Profit is what happens when you do everything else right.
There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.
If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God.
Once you privatize something, it becomes a for-profit business.
So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn't making - let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year.
Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.
The three pillars of development (economic, social and environmental) must be strengthened together. But it is evident that two of the pillars - economic and social - are subsidiary to, and underpinned by, the third: a vibrant global ecology. Neither dollars nor our species will out-survive our planet. The earth can survive happily without people or profit
I don't care if what we do makes a profit; I care whether we get somebody out of a wheelchair.
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.
You can profit by disappointment - if it is turned into inspirational dissatisfaction with a positive mental attitude.
People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.
The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit.
The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.
Today's consumers are eager to become loyal fans of companies that respect purposeful capitalism. They are not opposed to companies making a profit; indeed, they may even be investors in these companies - but at the core, they want more empathic, enlightened corporations that seek a balance between profit and purpose.
The proper man understands equity, the small man profits.
Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.
A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.
Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.
It was my duty to have loved the highest; It surely was my profit had I known: It would have been my pleasure had I seen. We needs must love the highest when we see it, Not Lancelot, nor another.
Wikipedia is a non-profit. It was either the dumbest thing I ever did or the smartest thing I ever did.