Profit

Famous quotes containing the word profit:

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

“Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
And the profit and loss.
A current under sea
Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youth
Entering the whirlpool.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

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