There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.
Daniel Bernoulli

There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.
George Meredith

They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because they're working on the Oscars show. It's the biggest show in the world.
Bruce Vilanch

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.
Bob Dole

To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants.
Peter Stuyvesant

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Wilson Mizner

Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.
Tom Scholz

Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit.
John L. Lewis

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

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

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

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.
Paul Valery

We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so... we used to rotate crops back in the day and, you know, who cares if you're going to make a profit if everybody's too dead or glowing in the dark to be able to purchase anything.
Michael Berryman

We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.
Sam Ewing

We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
Jose Marti

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

We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.
Kofi Annan

We need to take excellent care of our customers, and do so at a profit.
Gerard Arpey

We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good.
Steve Ballmer

Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?
Ed Wood