I started paddy cultivation not for profit.

One of the degrees I have is in business, and I was a healthcare administrator that ran a 365-bed skilled nursing facility for years and generated several million dollars a year profit for them. So I have a background in business.

Knopf is solidly profitable, and that is how I intend to keep it.

Anybody can leverage celebrity for profit.

From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the U.S. economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good.

The plundering for profit of the world's natural resources has threatened the very sustainability of the planet.

It should be a crime to make a profit off somebody being sick.

The clash between capital and labour, between those seeking to maximise profit and those with only their toil to sell, was the driving force for the creation of the trade unions in the 19th century.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

Male actors get into production, share profit, and they don't take money at times but are involved in some capacity which is economical and resourceful. These things suit them; as they have made a place for themselves, they have command over the box office.

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

I think anyone who uses the web is smart and will profit.

As Americans, we shouldn't like bailouts. Where I come from, if someone takes a risk and they're going to make the profit from that risk, they shouldn't have the taxpayer pay for the losses.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Legitimate profit is good. What's bad is profiteering.

Increasingly, I'm inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a profit.

The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.