"What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits."
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"A day of minor profit or prophet led to a night of drunkenness."
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"I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life."
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"If you mean to profit, learn to please."
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"Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit."
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"Change amuses the mind, but rarely profits."
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"Business is about profit, yes, and it is about more than profit. At its best, it is about expanding the possibilities of humanity."
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"Capitalism is not about the profit motive. Capitalism is about free markets. What you do in the market, in your free will, is the essence of capitalism."
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"The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it."
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"We can ill afford to have activities conducted as "non-profit," that is, as activities that devour capital rather than form it, if they can be organized as activities that form capital, as activities that make a profit."
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"Profit is not a cause but a result-"
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"Even genius is tied to profit."
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"When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers."
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"A profit is not without honor save in Boston."
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"A right judgment draws us a profit from all things we see ."
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"Profit is a blessing, if it's not stolen."
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"Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit."
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"Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it."
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"More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them."
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"Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product."
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