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The facility of obtaining food is beneficial in two ways to the owners of capital, it at the same time raises profits and increases the amount of consumable commodities.
David Ricardo
Time
Food
Increases
Beneficial
Ways
Facility
Obtaining
Same
Owners
Commodities
Same Time
Capital
Amount
Profits
Raises
Two
Economic theory dictates that the value of a company is basically the present value of its future profits. To estimate Facebook's value through its future profits, we need to have a view on its user growth and how this will evolve in the next 10 to 50 years.
Didier Sornette
Future
Facebook
Will
Value
Evolve
Economic
Through
Economic Theory
How
Years
Dictates
Estimate
Next
View
Theory
User
Company
Growth
Present
Profits
Basically
Need
I hope there will be some good news and some good profits, and people will realize we have a lot of outstanding executives, and a lot of companies that are doing a good job, and those are good companies to invest in.
Don Nickles
Hope
Good
News
People
Good Job
Will
Job
Good News
Those
Some
Invest
Outstanding
Executives
Doing
Lot
Realize
Companies
Profits
While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their own throats; they keep reducing space for the one feature that attracts new young readers in the first place; the comic strips.
Elayne Boosler
Space
First
Lost
Own
Young
Strips
One Thing
Feature
Throats
Over
New
Attracts
First Place
Readers
Readership
Comic
Editors
Reducing
Comic Strips
Fret
Owners
Currently
The One Thing
Place
While
Newspaper
Cutting
Keep
Shrinking
Thing
Profits
I believe that a newspaper is a great civic asset and that ownership is best in the hands of foundations or wealthy families that want to own it for reasons other than maximizing profits. I also believe newspapers should remain in local hands.
Eli Broad
Best
Great
Own
Ownership
Believe
Other
Local
Wealthy
Civic
Remain
Also
Families
Than
Hands
Maximizing
Want
Newspaper
Newspapers
Should
Reasons
Foundations
Asset
Profits
If large financial institutions can break the law and accumulate million in profits - and, if they get caught, settle by paying out of those profits - they do not have much incentive to follow the law.
Elizabeth Warren
Financial
Law
Settle
Those
Out
Follow
Institutions
Caught
Accumulate
Get
Break
Much
Incentive
Paying
Large
Million
Profits
I don't think anyone went the polls and said, 'I am casting my vote to make sure that Wall Street has better chances to make bigger profits off the backs of the American people.'
Elizabeth Warren
Vote
People
Better
Think
Backs
Casting
Make
Sure
Said
Am
Off
Wall
Wall Street
American
Polls
Anyone
Bigger
American People
Street
Profits
Chances
Ireland cannot become the collector general for the world. We can only tax on profits generated in the country here.
Enda Kenny
World
Country
Become
Collector
General
Only
Ireland
Tax
Cannot
Profits
Here
We need a pro-worker trade approach that puts American jobs - not corporate profits - front and center.
Eric Garcetti
Approach
Corporate
Jobs
Puts
Trade
American
Front
Center
American Jobs
Profits
Need
I think, for OPEC, the main challenge is to have a price level which brings good profits to them, good incentives for the investments, but at the same time, to prevent prices going to very high levels.
Fatih Birol
Time
Good
Challenge
Think
High
Prevent
Price
Prices
Main
OPEC
Investments
Very
Same
Going
Same Time
Which
Them
Incentives
Level
Profits
Levels
Brings
In some cases, corporations engaged in this activity have as much as 16 percent of their profits generated through the holding of 'janitor's insurance.'
Gene Green
Holding
Corporations
Some
Cases
Percent
Through
Insurance
Janitor
Much
Engaged
Activity
Profits
Twentieth-century welfare state capitalism was historically unique in that national income was split between wages and profits, labour and capital.
Guy Standing
Capitalism
Welfare
National
State
Split
Between
Welfare State
Wages
Historically
Labour
Capital
Unique
Income
Profits
In the old 20th-century income distribution system, the shares of income going to capital, mainly in profits, and labor, in wages and non-wage benefits, were roughly stable. But that system is no more.
Guy Standing
Benefits
Old
System
Distribution
More
Shares
Mainly
Wages
Were
Labor
Going
Stable
Capital
Roughly
Income
Profits
He only profits from praise who values criticism.
Heinrich Heine
Values
Criticism
Only
He
Praise
Who
Profits
False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.
Hesiod
Man
Confidence
Wealth
Poverty
Shame
Him
Accompanies
False
Greatly
Either
Poor
Profits
Single-payer is about making our society a better place. It's about putting people over profits.
J. B. Pritzker
People
Better
Society
Our
About
Better Place
Putting
Over
Making
Place
Profits
Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
J. M. Roberts
Would
Collectively
Only
Bear
Indirectly
Imperialism
Share
Genuinely
Expect
Burdens
Who
Popular
Even
Among
Profits
Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.
James Buchan
Business
Depend
Profit
Rate
Higher
Always
Interest
Required
Profits
The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.
James Lovelock
Will
Power
Out
About
Rival
Put
Reduce
Lot
Oil
Oil Companies
Regard
Disinformation
Who
Companies
Nuclear
Nuclear Power
Profits
Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.
James Surowiecki
Risks
Reward
Reap
Defense
Tremendous
Those
Able
Rarely
Supposed
Contractors
Which
While
Confronting
Profits
An increase in shareholder value can arise for reasons other than greater efficiency, such as increased power and the resulting ability to increase profits by raising prices.
Janet Yellen
Value
Power
Increase
Increased
Other
Ability
Resulting
Prices
Arise
Greater
Efficiency
Than
Reasons
Profits
Raising
The oil companies, the big polluters, and the climate deniers are incredibly powerful. They will do everything they can to protect their profits.
Jay Inslee
Will
Big
Incredibly
Everything
Powerful
Protect
Climate
Oil
Oil Companies
Companies
Profits
The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits ahead of quality care for its patients.
Jerrold Nadler
Health
Anger
Quality
Care
Benefit
System
Puts
Forces
Very
Reform
Stoke
Patients
Which
Against
Worked
Hard
Populist
Profits
From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you can maximise profits, the overwhelming tendency must be to see people as units of production, as indices in your accountants' books.
Jimmy Reid
Success
You
People
Overwhelming
Heights
Suite
Books
Must
See
Atmosphere
Tendency
Executive
Judged
Accountants
Where
Which
Success Is
Production
Your
Units
Profits
Extent
Olympian
Timber extraction provides big profits at the expense of local communities. Providing communities with unfettered access to harvest a forest that is protected in perpetuity provides better and more reliable incomes.
Johan Eliasch
Better
Big
Extraction
Local
Harvest
Reliable
More
Protected
Access
Timber
Perpetuity
Provides
Providing
Forest
Expense
Unfettered
Communities
Incomes
Profits
There is a profiteer when it comes to oil. 36 to 63 cents per gallon is swept off the top. And who profits from that? The government profits from it. And what does the government do with much of that money? It puts it into so-called 'alternative energy,' with so-called phony 'green jobs' that we're yet to see being produced.
John Fleming
Government
Money
Energy
Top
Phony
Jobs
See
Per
Puts
Alternative
Does
Off
Green
Being
Oil
So-Called
Cents
Gallon
Much
Produced
Who
Swept
Profits
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