Quotes about Profiting

Ibn Khaldun

Buy cheap and sell dear.

Abd al-Rahman Ibn Mohammad. He is generally regarded to be the World’s first social scientist. The largest statue in Tunisia of not of a military leader of king, but of this social scientist. This economic adage is uttered the world over, but the first writing of it that we have found is Ibn Khaludun

Jennifer Granholm

It's that Romney is taking advantage of the government's 'free stuff,' too, and has been profiting from it handsomely for a long, long time - even as he rails about the 'free stuff' that the government provides other people.

William Pitt the Younger

Sorry I am to hear the liberty of speech in this house, imputed as a crime. No gentleman ought to be afraid to exercise it. It is a liberty by which the gentleman who calumniates it might have profited, and by which he ought to have profited.

In this instance Pitt and a few others were arguing against the Stamp Act. They were accused of fomenting rebellion by advocating the same position of the rebellious colonists. Criticism of government policy is often castigated by claiming that enemies of the nation will take aid and comfort by the criticism and be encouraged in their conflict. In this case it was the Stamp Act. In more modern times those members of Congress in America who opposed the Iraq War and wanted withdrawal of U. S. troops were accused of aiding, comforting and encouraging the enemy. It is the favorite tactic of governments under attack for its foreign policy.

Orison Swett Marden

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

Mark Cavendish

It's so ironic that the better you get the easier it becomes to win.

Pramila Jayapal

Profiting from student loans is usury, and we just can't continue to allow it.

Elizabeth Warren

We shouldn't be profiting from our students who are drowning in debt while giving a great deal to the banks. That's just wrong.

Thomas J. Walsh

I wouldn't depend on the Justice Department for investigative purposes, nor would I approach the Attorney General's office for information if I were you …. It is my conviction that the man would go to any lengths to protect himself and his friends—and make no mistake about it, the people we are after are friends of the Attorney General. Harry Daugherty has had a hand in every dirty piece of business which has come out of the Harding administration. There is every reason to believe that, at the very least, Daugherty is one of the men who knows the whole sordid story of the oil leases—and there is enough evidence to warrant the suspicion that he himself might have profited from them

The advice turned out to be essentially correct.

Profiting Quotes