There can’t be opportunity or jobs without investment and profit.

When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there’s something amiss.

I can hire out for editing, proofreading, formatting, and cover design, and those are fixed, sunk costs. Once those are paid, I can earn 70% on a self-pubbed ebook.

Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honor, and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure, and pays with pain; he promises profit, and pays with loss, he promises life, and pays with death. But God pays as he promises; all his payments are made in pure gold

Then the business game is to make profits out of others, and to prevent others from making profits out of you.

If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity and faith, and seek not at any time the fame of being learned

Labor takes its share in wages; capital takes its share in profits.

In America, the average playwright makes less than a receptionist in a non-profit theatre. We don’t have decent health insurance – or any health insurance at all.

The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity

It is a law of competition that people who can do difficult things which others cannot will earn more profit.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit

What better way to enslave a man than give him the vote and call him free? What does it profit a man to be able to vote when he has to choose between a Democrat and a Republican— Tweedledee and Tweedledum?

The greatest human achievements have never been for profit.

The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work

It is not a good fancy,’ said the llama. ‘What profit to kill men?’ Very little – as I know; but if evil men were not now and then slain it would not be a good world for weaponless dreamers.

A driver today is an athlete out for hire, his mind is on profit.

The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit

The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn’t start writing music until he was four.

Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!

Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity.

Profit is not a cause but a result-.

Entrepreneurs believe that profit is what matters most in a new enterprise. But profit is secondary. Cash flow matters most.

Civilization and profit go hand in hand

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need. It performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.

I know that my people cannot possibly profit from the oppression of any other group which seeks the right to peaceful existence

Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves

Duty – that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

We didn’t become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn’t come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn’t do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.