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"It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who would profit by the old order, only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new." »Machiavelli
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"No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?" »Carl L. Becker
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"It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well." »Publilius Syrus
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"Many receive advice, few profit by it." »Publilius Syrus
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"The best plan is to profit by the folly of others." »Pliny the Elder
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"There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by." »George Meredith
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"Such truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome." »Thomas Hobbes
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"Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly." »Plutarch
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"What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and yet loses his soul?" »Jesus Christ, Matthew 16:26
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"He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure." »Horace
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"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" »Bible, Mark 8:36
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"Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them." »Dan McKinnon
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"That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit." »Amos Bronson Alcott, Table Talk
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"There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them." »J. Paul Getty
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"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them." »John C. Maxwell
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"To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it." »Churton Collins
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"Modesty is attended with profit, arrogance brings on destruction." »Chinese
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"Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you." »Horace
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"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit." »A. Bronson Alcott
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"The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit." »Samuel Gompers, said in 1908
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"There is no accident so disastrous that a clever man cannot derive some profit from it nor any so fortunate that a fool cannot turn it to his disadvantage." »La Rochefoucauld
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"Speculations and loans in foreign fields are likely to bring us into war... The war-for-profit group has counterfeited patriotism." »Charles Lindberg Sr., 1915
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"War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit." »General Smedley Butler
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"War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel." »Niccolo Machiavelli
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"The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss." »Winston Churchill
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"By six qualities may a fool be known: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without motive; inquiry, without an object; trust in a stranger; and incapacity to discriminate between friend and foe." »Arabic Proverb
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"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." »Thomas Paine, "Age of Reason"
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"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." »Thomas Paine
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"Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong." »Albert Einstein
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"Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs." »Albert Einstein
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