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We are washed both on coming into the world and on going out of it, and we take no pleasure from the first washing nor any profit from the last.
James Stephens
World
First
Profit
Pleasure
Out
Both
Take
Coming
Nor
Any
Going
Washed
Washing
Last
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.
Jane Austen
Good
Business
People
Poet
Profit
Other
Enough
Out
No Business
Good Ones
Write
He
Taking
Fair
Fame
Scott
Mouths
Bread
Not Fair
Should
Novels
Many rogue sites exist to make a profit and others are enormously expensive to maintain. If they don't have the resources to continue stealing intellectual property, they'll wither away.
Jared Polis
Property
Profit
Others
Resources
Stealing
Maintain
Make
Wither
Continue
Exist
Intellectual
Intellectual Property
Rogue
Sites
Expensive
Many
Away
The primary goal of publishing general fiction and non-fiction was never profit - though profit was essential to stay in the game. Publishing is a vocation in which the work is its own reward, an insufficient goal for today's conglomerates.
Jason Epstein
Work
Today
Game
Reward
Own
Profit
Though
Stay
Vocation
General
Never
Primary
Primary Goal
Insufficient
Non-Fiction
Goal
Essential
Fiction
Which
Publishing
I think anyone who uses the web is smart and will profit.
Jason Mraz
Smart
Will
Profit
Think
Web
Anyone
Who
Uses
So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.
Jeff Goodell
You
World
Profit
Days
Know
Look
Make
Around
Built
How
Just
Want
Them
Billion
Whole
Never argue with a profit.
Jeff Rich
Business
Profit
Argue
Never
No matter what Sarah Palin and these geniuses she surrounds herself with try to tell you, climate change is not a liberal versus conservative thing, but the people who profit from ignoring it want you to believe it is.
Jimmy Kimmel
You
Change
People
Conservative
Matter
Try
Believe
Profit
Liberal
Herself
Tell
Geniuses
She
Climate
Climate Change
Versus
Surrounds
Want
Ignoring
Sarah
Sarah Palin
Who
Thing
Palin
I make no apology for wanting to make a profit - the more I make, the bigger percentage will go to charity. So most of the work I do now is motivated by that.
John Caudwell
Work
Charity
Will
Profit
Percentage
More
Most
Make
Motivated
Go
Wanting
Bigger
Apology
Now
You can't live if you don't eat, but you don't live to eat. And neither does business exist primarily to make a profit. It exists to fulfill its purpose, whatever that might be.
John Mackey
You
Business
Whatever
Live
Profit
Neither
Eat
Purpose
Primarily
Make
Does
Exist
Exists
Might
Fulfill
It breaks even. We lose ten, twenty grand every year. But then the people who are working say, Look, I'll kick this back in, I don't need to take this profit share. It's very cooperative.
John Zorn
People
Year
Lose
Profit
Every
Back
Kick
Say
Ten
Take
Share
Look
Very
Grand
Breaks
Then
Working
Who
Even
Twenty
Cooperative
Need
Where we're living we have a certain amount of our profit every year it's like a percentage 5 or 7% or something like that that we set aside specifically for charity things.
Jon Fishman
Charity
Year
Living
Profit
Every
Our
Percentage
Something
Like
Where
Aside
Certain
Specifically
Amount
Things
Set
Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
Entrepreneur
Value
Profit
Entrepreneurial
Production
Expression
Many entrepreneurs embrace profit-making and charitable purposes. Companies such as shoes seller Toms and eyeglass firm Warby Parker sell products at a profit with a pledge to devote part of their earnings to the needy. The number of for-profit businesses with a built-in charitable dimension has proliferated.
Josh Hawley
Shoes
Profit
Needy
Earnings
Pledge
Dimension
Charitable
Embrace
Parker
Purposes
Entrepreneurs
Part
Firm
Devote
Sell
Seller
Products
Businesses
Companies
Many
Toms
Number
I will always come back to do Australian films. I think it matters. I think we can make films that people go and see. And I don't think it's too much to ask that films in this country make a profit and that we embrace them.
Josh Lawson
People
Too Much
Will
Country
Matters
Profit
Think
Films
Too
Back
Embrace
See
Come
Make
Always
Go
Australian
Them
Ask
Much
My dream is to make the world sound better, but the only way to do that is to let businesses see that there is profit in it.
Julian Treasure
World
Better
Profit
Way
Dream
See
Only
Make
Sound
Businesses
Technology isn't the enemy, it is our ally, but only if we adopt a new model that puts people before profit. I realize that we seem far from that model, but I have seen it in action and it is a beautiful thing. So I'm not willing to give up yet. Hope is the last thing to die.
Justin Sane
Beautiful
Hope
Technology
People
Enemy
Seen
Before
Action
Profit
Our
Willing
Seem
Give
Adopt
Only
Ally
Puts
New
Beautiful Thing
Up
Model
Die
Far
Realize
Thing
Last
Male actors get into production, share profit, and they don't take money at times but are involved in some capacity which is economical and resourceful. These things suit them; as they have made a place for themselves, they have command over the box office.
Kangana Ranaut
Money
Made
Profit
Resourceful
Some
Take
Share
Economical
Over
Involved
Box
Box Office
Command
Male
Male Actors
Times
Office
Get
Place
Which
Them
Capacity
Themselves
Production
Actor
Things
Suit
I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media industry themselves or from - they recognize the value of communications and are more ready to put money into a less profitable enterprise, namely the media.
Karl Rove
Money
Job
Value
Creation
Busy
Profit
Think
Conservatives
Liberals
Job Creation
Recognize
Enterprise
Wealthy
More
Investing
Put
Namely
Industry
Ready
Either
Them
Themselves
Communications
Less
Many
Media
Profitable
Many companies claim they have core values, but typically what they're referring to are generic beliefs: having integrity, making a profit, responding to customers and so on. These values only have meaning when they're defined in terms of how people behave and are ranked to set priorities.
Ken Blanchard
Integrity
People
Values
Profit
Defined
Claim
Ranked
Responding
Having
Only
Generic
Terms
Priorities
How
Making
Referring
Behave
Customers
Meaning
Companies
Many
Beliefs
Set
Core
Core Values
A hacker doesn't deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.
Kevin Mitnick
Hacker
Profit
Destroy
Data
Deliberately
His
Activities
Lawmakers must stand up for companies that choose public safety over profit margins.
Kevin de Leon
Safety
Profit
Must
Lawmakers
Over
Up
Public
Stand
Stand Up
Choose
Companies
Public Safety
Margins
In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.
Lajos Kossuth
Future
Past
Profit
Tried
Exile
Prepare
Chasing profits and building a long-term profit model are two different things.
Lewis Howes
Chasing
Building
Profit
Long-Term
Model
Different
Different Things
Things
Profits
Two
Some of the most successful products are born from a personal need to solve a problem rather than a desire to turn a profit.
Lewis Howes
Problem
Profit
Solve
Some
Born
Rather
Most
Than
Personal
Turn
Successful
Products
Desire
Need
I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit.
Lisa Bonet
Energy
Profit
Corporate
Devalued
Felt
Motivated
Behind
Disingenuous
Disrespected
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