Profit

Famous quotes containing the word profit:

“We go to gain a little patch of ground
That hath in it no profit but the name.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“For the profit of travel: in the first place, you get rid of a few prejudices.... The prejudiced against color finds several hundred millions of people of all shades of color, and all degrees of intellect, rank, and social worth, generals, judges, priests, and kings, and learns to give up his foolish prejudice.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“You know how to vanquish, Hannibal, but you do not know how to profit from victory.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)