Trey Parker Quotes

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.

For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.

Corporations are not capable of doing things out of the goodness of their hearts. They don’t have hearts.

The public be damned. What does the public care for railroads except to get as much out of them for as small a consideration as possible? I don't take any stock in this silly nonsense about working for anybody's good but our own, because we are not. When we make a move, we do it because it is in our interest to do so, and not because we expect to do somebody else good.

I know many businesspeople in Russia who have knowingly signed up to effectively compromise their values for their own profit motive to become part of this criminal apparatus in Russia.

You have to be cynical because this is a business. Everyone is making money out of you.

Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

At times, some journalists see nothing in the people apart from an opportunity to make material gain. They see them as consumers to whom we sell commodities at huge profits that keep our bank accounts growing.

It's a sin to have your films not to make money.

In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may survive. In business, we give bonuses to people who sacrifice others.

Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.

There is nothing to be embarrassed about being profitable.

They're always saying I'm a capitalistic pig. I suppose I am. But... it's good for my drumming.

There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

All those men have their price.

Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.

I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs.

He who thinks that anything can be accomplished with money will himself likely to do anything for money.

Must we always look for the political opinions of our businessmen precisely where they suppose their immediate pecuniary advantage to be found?