Quotes tagged ‘Profit’

“There’s a direct correlation between corporations that are getting rich, and the fact that we have students who are shackled with debt. There is a direct correlation between the White House and the people who are benefiting from detention beds that are profitized [sic].”

— Ilhan Omar, ips-dc.org

“[to Senator Carmichael] You're the beneficiary of the cruelest kind of murder... murder for profit!”

— Diana Maddox, William Gray, Russell Hunter, John Russell, George C. Scott, imdb.com

“The Scholar: Tell me, brother, what is the greatest Jihad? Christian Aumont: To kill the unbelievers in battle. The Scholar: No. Christian Aumont: No? The Scholar: The Holy Profit, peace be upon Him, said that war against the unbelievers is the lesser Jihad. The greatest Jihad is to battle you own s…”

— Kamran Pasha, Christian Aumont, Alex Nesic, imdb.com

“I've known good criminals and bad cops. Bad priests. Honorable thieves. You can be on one side of the law or the other. But if you make a deal with somebody, you keep your word. You can go home today with your money and never do this again. But you took something that wasn't yours. And you sold it f…”

— Peter Gould, Gordon Smith, Mike Erhmantraut, Jonathan Banks, imdb.com

“It’s hard making it in a society that only cares about profit and pleasure. No wonder God has turned His back on us. No wonder there are no children. He doesn’t want them to grow up in this screwed-up world. Who can blame Him?”

— Margaret Atwood, Andrew Pryce, Robert Curtis Brown, imdb.com

“Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.”

— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org

“It's hard making it in a society that only cares about profit and pleasure. No wonder God has turned His back on us. No wonder there are no children. He doesn't want them to grow up in this screwed-up world.”

— Margaret Atwood, Kira Snyder, Andrew Pryce, Robert Curtis Brown, imdb.com

“Profit is the applause you get for creating a motivating environment for your people and taking care of your customers.”

— Ken Blanchard, twitter.com

“...taxes are not raised to carry on wars, but that wars are raised to carry on taxes.”

— Thomas Paine, amazon.com

“Death can only be profitable: there’s no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a grave for hundreds or thousands of years, if you count it up the profit turns out to be enormous.”

— Anton Chekhov, amazon.com