“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.” PeopleIfsNeedsYearsPersonsLyingTurnsPayDrinkTaxesProfitGravesEnormousProfitable Author:Anton Chekhov
“What the English call "comfortable" is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries go on for ever. Hence the new want is not so much a want of those who have it directly, but is created by those who hope to make profit from it.” WantTurnsConditionsGoes OnComfortComfortableDiscoveryProfitEndlessDiscomfort Book:Philosophy of right Source: Philosophy of right
“I thought that, given the system of rewards central to our economic system, in which profit maximization is valued above all else and specifically above life, it is probably just as irresistible to the owners of capital (human or otherwise) to exploit workers (and the land): "Nothing personal," they say as they load their property onto the ship bound for the Middle Passage, "but a man's gotta turn a dime."” MenHumansTurnsGivenEconomicLandMiddlePropertyRewardsWorkersBoundsProfitShipsOwnersPassagesLoadExploitsIrresistibleDimesEconomic SystemsMiddle PassageProfit Maximization Book:The Culture of Make Believe Source: The Culture of Make Believe
“Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit.” NeedsCareTurnsInvolvedProfitHealth CareEnterpriseCanadaGet InvolvedPublic HealthHealth Care SystemPrivate Enterprise Author:Sarah Palin
“The essence of capitalism is expressed in two of its basic features: a) profit maximization and b) market competition. In their abstract formulations none of them was supposed to have anything conspiratorial against the poor. But in real life they turn out to be the "killers" of the poor - by making rich the richer and poor the poorer.” TwoRealTurnsPoliticsPoorEconomyRichCapitalismEssenceCompetitionProfitReal LifeFeaturesAbstractLiberalismKillersProfit Maximization Author:Muhammad Yunus
“Truth is the only good and the purest pity. ... Men lie for profit or for pity. All lies turn to poison, but a lie that is told for pity or shame breeds such a host of ills that no power on earth can compass their redemption.” MenEarthLyingTurnsTruth IsShameProfitPityRedemptionPoisonHostCompassLying Men Book:The Clash Source: The Clash
“All I want to do is make serious movies that explore social issues and turn a profit, and slip the schnitzel to Jane DePugh.” WantTurnsSocialIssuesSeriousProfitSlipsSocial IssuesJaneSchnitzel Book:Hollywood Nocturnes Source: Hollywood Nocturnes