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"The best plan is to profit by the folly of others." »Pliny the Elder
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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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"Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly." »Plutarch
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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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"Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them." »Dan McKinnon
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"He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure." »Horace
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"To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it." »Churton Collins
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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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"Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you." »Horace
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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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"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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"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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"Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future." »William Wordsworth
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"What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis." »W. Edwards Deming
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"For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end." »H.L. Mencken
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"Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special." »Fran Lebowitz
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"Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail." »Nicholas Murray Butler
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"Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse." »Francis Quarles
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"Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. A well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research." »Marie Curie
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"Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise." »Cato the Elder
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