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Work neither for fame nor profit. An artist should aspire only to inspire.

For what is socialism? With the frills removed, it is people collectively running society. Instead of being the prisoners of anarchic capitalist competition and the mad rush for profit at any cost, it is working together for the common good. Our tremendous co-operative power would be controlled, not by a ruling class in the search for ever greater profits, but democratically and for the fulfillment of human need.

Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade. We are selling bread at the price of jewels... Let us take the profit, the private economic profit, out of medicine, and purify our profession of rapacious individualism... Let us say to the people not 'How much have you got?' but 'How best can we serve you?

A lie is more profitable than the truth. That is why we have elections.

When you think of the amount of turnover and profit made by most companies in this country - and especially the big chains, it's a shame that they pay their employees minimum wage and no more than that. What that really says is: 'We're paying you minimum wage, because we're not allowed to pay you any less.

Why just order a pizza, when you can get a restraining order for the delivery guys, make them come to you, sue them, and get all the profit?

The greatest profit, is to make your own gain.

The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.

In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.

Truth, meanwhile, was a weaponthat even a damaged fist could still grasp and wield. It was a remarkably versatile commodity; it could be traded, or help serve an end, or produce aprofit.

I see dead Presidents. Lincoln, Jefferson, Franklin, and Washington.

If you don__ laugh reading this book I__l eat my pocket protector. Wait, did I just admit I had a pocket protector?

Many small businesses would rather face an angry barbarian horde than tackle their cash flow statement or price a new product.

Not a single person has died of boredom reading this book.

Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.

Any profession you engage in, no matter how profitable, unless it is truly helpful and good for others, is a crime against your soul, and the world.

Don't let your past dictate your future,

Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.