Quotes about Profit

When morality comes up against profit, it's seldom profit that loses.

In order to profit from this path [of prayer] and ascend to the dwelling places we desire, the important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so, do that which best stirs you to love.

In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride—it is always considered a sin. Therefore, no matter how the world uses the term, we must understand how God uses the term so we can understand the language of holy writ and profit thereby.

What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? MARK 8:36

When something brings profit or pleasure to us, we are inclined to call evil good, even if we know it is dead wrong.

What shall it profit a man, if he . . . gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" (Mark 8:36).

Our personalities, our intelligence, and our capabilities are gifts from [God's] own bountiful hand. If we divert their use for our own profit, we become guilty of selfishness.

Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.

It was my duty to have loved the highest; It surely was my profit had I known: It would have been my pleasure had I seen. We needs must love the highest when we see it, Not Lancelot, nor another.

Smart companies fail because they do everything right. They cater to high-profit-margin customers and ignore the low end of the market, where disruptive innovations emerge from.

The obsession with economic profit and technical efficiency puts the human rhythms of life at risk.

Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.