Profitability. Growth. Quality. Exceeding customer expectations. These are not examples of values. These are examples of corporate strategies being sold to you as values.
I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.
Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.
I really admire the way the fans have joined me in social justice endeavours and the charitable work that I've been involved in. We've raised over $100,000 on Twitter for our non-profit in Uganda.
I always had the old-school model that I'm going to work for as long as I'm relevant and focus on for-profit activities and someday when I retire I'm going to learn about philanthropy.
Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream - but create!
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.
When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they'd like to put us to work rebuilding it, and -- to add insult to injury -- at a profit.
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.
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.
If you wish to draw profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faith, and never with the design of gaining a reputation for learning.
That blasted family could never look at a living thing without wanting to make a profit out of it, preferably by killing it.
The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.
What shall it profit a male if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his immortal genes?
If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!
My cat is a meow factory. Why can’t he manufacture something more profitable, like love?
We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment.
