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Profit Quotes - Page 2

Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.

Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

The only purpose of advertising is to make sales. It is profitable or unprofitable according to its actual sales.

Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Claude C. Hopkins, John E. Kennedy, Albert D. Lasker “Scientific Advertising Origins”, Lulu.com

you may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular thing

Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.

John Maynard Keynes (1930). “A treatise on money”

If you're in a system where you must make profit in order to survive. You are compelled to ignore negative externalities, effects on others.

"Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.

Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815”, p.167, Princeton University Press