Economic Profit

Famous quotes containing the words economic and/or profit:

“Society’s double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent than economic discrimination because it is more insidious, less tangible. Economic disadvantages involve ascertainable amounts, but the very nature of societal value judgments makes them harder to define, their effects harder to relate.”
—Anne Tucker (b. 1945)

“Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)