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

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
Amos Bronson Alcott

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.
Henry George

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
Pliny the Elder

The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for the rest of this continent, they were constant losers in trade.
Ezra Stiles

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.
George Grosz

The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.
Peter Maxwell Davies

The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
L. Neil Smith

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

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.
Todd Gitlin

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.
Tom Petty

The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.
Steve Winwood

The press don't like to say nice things because nice is boring. It's much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we're responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit.
Michael Bay

The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.
Moses Mendelssohn

The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not.
Eric Anderson

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

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
E. B. White

The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.
Frederick Soddy

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
Samuel Gompers

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.
Abu Bakr