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• As Americans, we shouldn’t like bailouts. Where I come from, if someone takes a risk and they’re going to make the profit from that risk, they shouldn’t have the taxpayer pay for the losses.

  Henry Paulson

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  Tags in Profit, Taxpayer

• There’s always gonna be people with a lot of money making film, and the goal is to make profit and carry on. It is a business. The goal is to make a living doing it and to be comfortable.

  Clint Howard

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  Tags in Profit, Carry

• ‘Freeing’ a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to the executives and stockholders of various businesses who will continue to profit from, for example, ‘The Garden Party,’ while the descendants of Katherine Mansfield will not.

  Mark Helprin

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  Tags in Profit, Descendants

• He only profits from praise who values criticism.

  Heinrich Heine

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  Tags in Praise, Profit
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  War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Foreign, Profit, Happens

• Our people get profit-sharing checks. I got a report the other day that says that 84 percent of our people participate in our stock purchase program, where they can buy stock at a 15 percent discount.

  David Neeleman

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• I think that George Lucas’ ‘Star Wars’ films are fantastic. What he’s done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films and poured it into developing digital sound and surround sound, which we are using today.

  Peter Jackson

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Think, Profit

• There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers.

  Pete Domenici

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  Tags in Profit

• What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.

  Frederick Tennyson

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  Tags in Profit, Thought, Forever

• The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

  Frederick Soddy

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Great, Profit

• Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.

  Bob Dole

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  Tags in Confusion, Profit

• 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.

  Paul Valery

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  Tags in People, Profit

• Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.

  Paul Samuelson

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• I never lost money by turning a profit.

  Bernard Baruch

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• Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

  Bernard Baruch

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• While mainstream media is led by profit, ratings and popularist culture and filtered by the current political climate, Alternative Media is lead solely by the convictions of the campaign and film maker.

  Ben Edwards

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  Tags in Media, Profit

• We need to take excellent care of our customers, and do so at a profit.

  Gerard Arpey

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  Tags in Customers, Profit

• One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

  B. Carroll Reece

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• And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made.

  Tom Scholz

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  Tags in Human Life, Profit

• Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.

  Tom Scholz

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  Tags in World, Profit