Quotes for All
Money is an instrumentality of the profit motive and must be issued and backed only by private enterprisers. Economic and political perversities are inescapable while government is admitted to money power. Since all national governments have, up to the present, been money issuing powers we may justly attribute all the economic and political ills of … Read more
When shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an economic support of every human right we possess and without it, all rights would disappear. Dwight D. Eisenhower
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. Dale Carnegie
We in America count on the profit motive to get people to do the right thing. That’s our basic American notion when it comes to business. Chris Matthews
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. Ambrose Bierce
That, to me, is a kind of brilliant environmental ju-jitsu – using the energy of the market and the profit-motive to get businesses to invest in preserving and improving natural systems. Ramez Naam