profit-driven mentality Quotes

It was men's ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain.

No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.

The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.

Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages to outweigh all other motives, because the effort it demands of the mind is so very much less. Nothing is so clear and so simple as a row of figures.

There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them

In speaking of the capitalists who strive only for profit, only to get rich, I do not want to say that these are the most worthless people capable of doing nothing else. Many of them undoubtedly possess great organising talent, which I would not dream of denying. We Soviet people learn a lot from the capitalists. But if you mean people who are prepared to reconstruct the world, of course you will not be able to find them in the ranks of those who faithfully serve the cause of profit. ..The capitalist is riveted in profit and nothing can tear him away from it.

Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.

It's a very American thing that everything has to be a business. Americans think... I like America, or I would not be here. There are great qualities to this country. But this sense that everything has to be a business is sometimes overwhelming.

Whoever has a keen eye for profits, is blind in relation to his craft.