Personal Profit Quotes

Did the occupation of other countries improve our own happiness? Does the individual German get anything out of such conquests?

Some shareholders believe it is all about price and a few people's pockets.

Everybody's over here to make money for themselves.

Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston.

I'm no robin hood, I enjoy making the money.

I don't care whether the people believe me to be a prophet, seer, or revelator or not - I have been very profitable to this people, and I have seen a good many things, and I have revealed many things.

America's skyscrapers were not built by public funds nor for a public purpose: they were built by the energy, initiative and wealth of private individuals for personal profit. And, instead of impoverishing the people, these skyscrapers, as they rose higher and higher, kept raising the people's standard of living - including the inhabitants of the slums.

For Trump, it's always about Trump and how he makes more money.

The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face.

My wife is really unhappy with my agent. But I'm the big winner.

There's money to be made, and I want mine.

I've made millions of dollars with the body I have, so where's the pain in that?

No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money!

I just want to get the most money I can.

I don't want to do anything that capitalizes personally on the fact that I've been in public service.

All you have to do is follow the money and if you follow the money, it leads right back to Donald Trump's pockets.

Hillary Clinton has perfected the politics of personal profit and theft. She ran the State Department like her own personal hedge fund, doing favors for oppressive regimes and many others in exchange for cash. Then when she left, she made $21.6 million giving speeches to Wall Street banks and other special interests in less than two years - secret speeches that she does not want to reveal to the public. Lobbyists, CEOs, and foreign governments totally own her, and that will never change if she ever became president.

A hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal gain.