Profit

Famous quotes containing the word profit:

    Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.
    Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)

    For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
    Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Mark, 8:36.

    What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
    François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)