Bill Maher Quotes

One can be in business and pursue bad profit. That is, by practicing cronyism—rigging the system to undermine competition, innovation and opportunity, making others worse off. Good profit should lead you to improve your ability to help others improve their lives. But that’s not how many businesses act today.

It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office.

As with products on supermarket shelves, the public has a right to know where their financial products and services come from.

From the right to know will flow the right to demand, and get, tougher laws and safer practices.

Advocates of GMO labeling aren't seeking a warning label. We're simply asking for a factual, non-judgmental disclosure on the back of the package.

I've always believed consumers have a right to know what's in their food.

I think I understand the relationships between different people within the company: people who are straightforward employees, people who can impact the bottom line, and people who share in the bottom line. I don't think you can understand inequality in America unless you understand what's driving profitability.

Consumers have the right to know important information about the service they are choosing to purchase and/or use.

We're in this business to make money, but then nobody wants to talk about how much money we're making. That's serious, but nobody will talk about it.

Success is what sells.

Many times people ask me, "What is sin and what is virtue? And how to decide?" If you decide your decision will be wrong. If you choose you will be wrong. All choice is wrong. There is no way to decide. There is no need to decide what is sin and what is virtue. You only need a transparent mind, a clarity, a thoughtless mind, a no-mind, a mirror-like consciousness. In that consciousness WHATSOEVER HAPPENS is virtue. In that consciousness WHATSOEVER CANNOT HAPPEN is sin.

Microsoft is unlawfully taking advantage of its Windows monopoly to protect and to extend that monopoly and undermine consumer choice.

Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.

I know transplanted human worth will bloom to profit otherwhere.

Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worst there.

Knowledge has the power to help us avoid making bad choices that produce bad results.

Don't get the idea that I've turned green. My business is making money, and I think this is going to make a lot of money.

Popular support for alternative energy has been very high for years. But it harms corporate profits.

The brands that will thrive in the coming years are the ones that have a purpose beyond profit.

For any woman reading this, I hope it helps you to know you have options. I want to encourage every woman, especially if you have a family history of breast or ovarian cancer, to seek out the information and medical experts who can help you through this aspect of your life, and to make your own informed choices.

The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

You know what's a savvy business move? Making a profit.

Every one fastens where there is gaine.

Capitalism is like Japanese Knotweed: nothing kills it off. If there were only two people left on the planet, one of them would find a way of making money out of the other.

All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.