Profit Quotes

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
John C. Maxwell

Smart, Strong, Mistakes

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.
Thomas Paine

Power, Human, Christian

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
William Wordsworth

Life, Future, Live

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Dale Carnegie

Successful, Mistakes, Different

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce

Individual, Device, Ingenious

How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.
Lucille Ball

Love, Mistakes, Divorce

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
Warren Buffett

Enemy, Friend, Rather

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Education, Age, Health

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
George Orwell

War, Country, Against

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
Warren Buffett

Today, Growth, Yesterday

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
H. L. Mencken

Marriage, Trust, End

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Friendship, Men, Business

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
Ron Paul

War, Except, Position

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
Jesus Christ

Soul, Whole, Shall

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.
Richard Bach

Best, Business, Give

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wisdom, Give, Cannot

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

Talk, Listen, Badly

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
W. Edwards Deming

Business, Friends, Service

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.
Woody Allen

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.
Nhat Hanh

Life, Work, Peace

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

Desire, Direction, Line

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
Orison Swett Marden

Great, Yourself, Chance

It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good, Self, Advice

Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
Calvin Coolidge

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.
Donald Trump

Business, Mean, Country

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Change, Nor, Cause

Poets wish to profit or to please.
Horace

Wish, Please, Poets

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.
Desiderius Erasmus

Nature, Nothing, Cannot

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
Henry Miller

Makes, Madness, Insane

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
Sophocles

Sweet, Deception

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