A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
— John C. Maxwell
Unbelievable Profitability quotations
Authentic marketing is not the art of selling what you make but knowing what to make. It is the art of identifying and understanding customer needs and creating solutions that deliver satisfaction to the customers, profits to the producers and benefits for the stakeholders.

We are the only species of mammal that doubts our ability to give birth.
It's profitable to scare women about birth. But let's stop it. I tell women: Your body is not a lemon.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.
Let us put our trust in God and console ourselves with the thought that all is well, if it is in accordance with the will of the Almighty, as He knows best what is profitable and beneficial to our temporal happiness and our eternal salvation.
Is slavery - owner, victim, profit, and domination - exclusive to the human race? Have blacks, Jews, women and children been the only victims of this atrocity? Have not cows been enslaved? What about pigs, chickens, turkeys, fish, sheep? If they’re not enslaved, then what are they? Free?
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
We try to remember that medicine is for the patient.
We try never to forget that medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits. The profits follow, and if we have remembered that, they have never failed to appear. The better we have remembered it, the larger they have been.
The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.
Information is Power. Think For Yourself. CAUTION: proper use of the brain is not endorsed by federal governments nor huge corporations involved in serious financial profit from a brainwashed and enslaved population. Mild discomfort may occur as confusing independent thought challenges popular views of the world.
What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
We need to really start taking care of each other and not profiting off of each other's miseries. That shouldn't be our reality. That shouldn't be what we aspire to. It's not admirable in any way, shape, or form.
The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.
Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.
If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice, anger, pride and stupidity commonly profit far beyond charity, modesty, justice and thought, perhaps we must stand fast a little, even at the risk of being heroes.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
Profit is the payment you get when you take advantage of change.
The purpose of the corporation must be redefined as creating shared value, not just profit per se. This will drive the next wave of innovation and productivity growth in the global economy.
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men;
for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.
Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.
It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions.
Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions.
We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason;
nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.
We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.
Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned.
It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits.
Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
Take advantage of little sufferings even more than of great ones.
God considers not so much what we suffer as how we suffer. . . Turn everything to profit as the grocer does in his shop.
If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.