"I never lost money by turning a profit."
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"It is not size that counts in business. Some companies with $500,000 capital net more profits than other companies with $5,000,000. Size is a handicap unless efficiency goes with it."
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"Profits are better than wages."
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"Evil companions bring more hurt than profit."
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"Why is pot against the law? It wouldn't be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can't make a profit off it, would it?"
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"The best plan is to profit by the folly of others."
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"Civilisation and profits go hand in hand."
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"Profit is the celebration of service."
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"Profit per se is not my motive."
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"I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves."
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"Investors have to remember: corporate profits are going up, but stocks are going up faster. How can that continue indefinitely? Investors can only earn what companies themselves can earn; the government or the markets themselves don't kick anything in. How can you get anything more out of a farm than what it grows?"
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"Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits."
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"Kickstarter isn't a profit center, it's an organizer and an instigator."
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"Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail."
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"Το know how to profit by good advice, requires nearly as much ability as to know how to act for one'self."
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"For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become."
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"The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists."
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"The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser."
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"The proper man understands equity, the small man profits."
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"Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit."
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