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Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend.

Eric Sevareid

We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience.

George Washington

No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect.

William Shakespeare

He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.

Horace Mann

War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Publilius Syrus

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.

Amos Bronson Alcott

While the quarter may provide a glimpse of the current state of the business, we believe that investors are far more interested in the potential impact of potential pending cost cuts on the company?s profit and loss.

Keith Bachman

Realizing these goals will result in $2.5 billion in overall profit improvement.

Doug Steenland

I don't get the problem here at all. We're not making a profit.

Keith Winkowski

If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Robert Townsend

It's just profit-takers moving in after what has been a very, very good run in the share price.

Arthur Lim

We could, in fact, have the whole business in profit. But we want to keep growing. We did not get $10 million in the bank to earn interest.

Grant Baker

Rosy earnings results spurred the market. But as firms with poor profit figures often unveil their results in late April, the index likely will face downward pressure.

Liu Yu

I don't think it will be as dramatic as yesterday, but we will see some gains despite profit taking.

Terry Milne

Our profit growth was a bit stronger than we expected.

Don Blair

We're more than happy to profit from short-term fluctuations, and we think this morning's dramatic drop is very short-term.

Dan Ahrens

We think the largest emerging threat is very different. Today's threats are not based on notoriety, but on profit.

Gary Mcdaniel

What is IT agility? It's the mixture of art and engineering that delivers robust 80% solutions fast enough to capitalize on opportunities before profit margins drop.

Michael Hugos

We are ready for the fourth quarter. Reaching pro forma profit does not require heroics, just execution.

Warren Jenson

This is the down side of the hot real estate issue we're experiencing. If the private sector could make a profit doing this [developing affordable housing], they'd already be doing it.

Christopher Williams

No one knows what the market will look like next year and a profit warning from Intel does not bode well.

Haruki Takahashi

Their guidance for returning to profit in the fourth- quarter will probably be due to seasonality factors. There's still a possibility of loss in the first quarter of 2006.

Teo Chon Kiat

She has decided to stay away from it (the offices) till the air is cleared over the issue (office of profit).

Rajiv Shukla

Any for-profit entity of (Google's) magnitude using land owned by the people should not escape paying their fair share.

Larry Stone

I believe that to solicit funds from private individuals, to open bank accounts, and to disburse and manage these funds without a duly-registered non-profit status is against the law.

Mary Johnson

We're looking at companies that are close to making a profit. And there are not too many of those.

Jeffrey Silber

I do believe that what we're seeing here is profit taking, which is a means of insurance that you need to take when the market has run very hard into a profit season that's got very high expectations about it.

Jamie Spiteri

Italy is an attractive retail market for everyone. If BNP can come in and cut costs and improve profit, it could make the market more competitive.

Andrew Sentance

When the international prices rise, we expect the government to cut its share of profit and its revenue earnings and share the burden of the increase with the common man.

Arun Jaitley

Investor expectations about profit gains at brokerages grew stronger.

Atsushi Osa

The higher prices of Dram chips and the more profitable Nand flash memory products will help the company to record profit this year.

Richard Chang

It is not a for-profit bill - it is a for-safety bill.

Joe Robinson

We're predicting that if fuel prices remain around these sorts of levels, then it could have an impact of around 40 percent on our after-tax profit.

Ralph Norris

We expect to maintain profit at last year's level if we get subsidies and government bonds.

Sarthak Behuria

I once heard profit is the applause you get for taking care of customers and your people.

Ken Blanchard

We work off of a back log, ... But that puts us in a real profit squeeze.

Frank Adams

The market is looking forward to signs of accelerating profit growth, which could add potential to stocks.

Juergen Lukasser

Whatever profit you're making on those customers, getting that extra year or so out of them can make the difference between profitability or not. A lot of carriers are toeing a fine line.

Dylan Brooks

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Online trading is a high-cost business that lends itself to more consolidation going forward, ... And that will have a big impact on giving E-Trade more opportunity to improve its profit margins.

David Decker

Our forecast for a 2006 P/E ratio of about 19 is reasonable given the profit outlook. These are not value stocks.

Alexander Young

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.

Jesus Christ

These H shares are attractive because their profit outlook has turned around in the past year. Next I think we'll see investors move to red chips.

Antony Mak

So far they haven't been willing to tell us much about it. There are many things we need to know, including how they divide the revenue with content providers, and when and how big a profit they're expecting NOW to contribute.

Marvin Lo

Investors initially guessed Japan's high-techs were quite independent of the U.S. market, but everyone's been quite worried since there have been so many profit warnings.

Masafumi Nakayama

The Nasdaq is up, but there's a lot of profit taking going on underneath. A lot of money has been made in short amount of time.

Paul Cox

The results are generally in line with expectations. But growth in net profit in 2006 will not be as (strong) as in 2005.

Faisal Hasan

The estate profited unfairly after I made the payments. I'm not looking to profit.

Jackie Peterson

What we're seeing is a tremendous increase in the number of complaints and horror stories, including fatalities, associated with the rush to corporate, profit driven health care in our country.

Harvey Rosenfield

This sounds ironic, but the growing need for fresh labor and investment are now weighing on profit trends, together with high levels of commodity prices.

Osamu Katano

Defendant does not intend to profit in any way from the Oklahoma City bombing tragedy and in the event this court imposes no fine, or a nominal fine, and does not order restitution to exceed $4,100, the defendant will sign and file with the court an agreement and promise not to profit from the Oklahoma City bombing tragedy.

Michael Mcguire

I'm not interested in profit. But it's a huge offer, which we have to consider. I don't want to lose him, but it's a huge sum of money.

Sir Bobby Robson

This impacted our operating profit by $30 million and our total utility expense rose by $100 million in the quarter.

Tom Schoewe

December's usual inventory write-offs and increased marketing costs led the operating profit margin to fall to 8 pct from 11 pct a quarter earlier.

Chu Woo Sik

For profit businesses, our young entrepreneurs need guidance in developing a business and professional attitude and putting together a business plan and a policy so that they can approach banks for small business grants and loans.

Gilbert West

We are not looking just to increase the number of models and go aggressively after unit sales, the most important thing is to pursue profit. But we are not going to complain if sales keep increasing as they have.

Fumio Urano

Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Ambrose Bierce

Perhaps there is some profit taking before (the Fed).

Stephen Carl

It's normal profit-taking. It's quarter-end, it's Friday, the market's near the 16,000 resistance level.

Antony Mak

We believe that this richer product mix is where the profit growth is for Dell.

James Schneider

It's one thing to put this business on the books. It's far more important to maximize the profit from it.

Brian L. Halla

Our solid basic business makes the achieved level of profitability sustainable. We therefore expect a profit for the current year of the same level as in 2005.

Nikolaus Von Bomhard

The fallout from these mergers is often measured in jobs as the combined entity cuts overlapping positions and sheds workers in an effort to maintain profit margins.

John Challenger

They're really applying the principles of entrepreneurial management even if they're not making a profit.

Josh Lerner

It's hard to perpetrate fraud-for-profit without some kind of third- party professional being involved, whether an appraiser, loan officer, real estate broker -- someone to extract the money from the lending channel.

Mark Fleming

The market has met some resistance at this level. Investors are taking profit after the rally and the entire commodity complex including metals is down. It might drop to $70 and then people may come in to buy then.

Tetsu Emori

Speculators are already looking at this. Negative news is a chance to make a profit. People will short the currency.

Craig Russell

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.

Pliny the Elder

Profit growth seems accessible and coherent with economic growth.

Christophe Donay

We are in desperate need of immediate help. For most of us, the profit margin has become nonexistent.

Joe Smith

The data indicate that firms continue to struggle to pass higher costs through to consumers, with profit margins being squeezed as a result.

Joseph Capurso

If there is a chance [for a profit], it is going to go to the Hill District.

David Morehouse

Strong financial performance is essential to ensure that Preferred Care is able to meet all of its claims responsibilities as well as any unforeseen medical expenses. As a not-for-profit health plan, our earnings are our only source of capital.

Tom Combs

Our price realization and what our customers are willing to pay for has been very encouraging for us. That's why you see another very good profit year coming up and a lot of cash being generated.

Robert Lane

Hutchison has risen more than HK$10 this week so at this level it will see some profit taking.

Peter Lai

It's one of those win-win situations. If all the certificates are sold, there's no profit. But it's good for local business. If some are not redeemed, we make some money.

Mel Pearlman

You need to put Fiat Auto's performance in parallel with those of Renault and Peugeot, both of whom issued profit warnings.

Patrice Solaro

We saw a tremendous outpouring of goodwill in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, but we also know that con artists will take every opportunity to exploit and profit from those who have experienced great loss.

Greg Abbott

We're making a profit every year, but the thing is, we keep putting that profit back into the business.

Michael Kilpatrick

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.

William Wordsworth

We don't have a big profit margin. We're sitting at around 3 or 4 percent, maybe, and it's going to cut that down to where we're losing money and then how can we stay in business.

Cody Knotts

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.

Cato the Elder

Oh, my God! It's like a travesty of justice. He is basically profiting off the misery of working people. That's what it comes down to.

Bhairavi Desai

They are entitled to make a profit. Certainly they should be entitled to pay the taxes that you and I and everyone else pays.

Sen. Louis Hill

Samsung can continue to generate profit growth, and earnings this quarter will be positive.

Choi Chang Hoon

The drug companies are simply trying to make a profit, ... They are not trying to tell us what the best thing is for our health.

Ron Pollack

It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The dollar lost some of its recent gains on profit-taking as there was little news for the market.

Nobuo Kihara

It's going to be tough to make a profit.

David Cush

We expect 1999 and 2000 to be years of ongoing profit expansion, with better aggregate gains than 1998, which was disappointing.

Abby Joseph Cohen

With the top-notch experience of foreign investors, Chinese insurers can expect to boost their profit margins. Foreign investors also help to raise investor confidence in the initial public offering (IPO).

Wang Guojun

Computers have very tight profit margins, making it difficult to convince manufacturers to be more environmentally friendly in the manufacturing process.

Jim Lynch

We would be very, very fortunate if we broke even in year one. But by year three we should be making a nice profit.

Tony Teixeira

No one -- whether citizen or public official -- will be permitted to illegally profit at the expense of the communities and citizens who so desperately need FEMA funds and assistance in the wake of this region's terrible disaster.

Jim Letten

This is a country that's based on the free enterprise system. And if a profit-making group wants to invest their money in a political campaign, it's their right to do that.

John Kehoe

Consensus was 75-77 cents, because people were expecting another profit warning, so 83 cents is above market expectations.

Nigel Cobby

As a not-for-profit utility, the goal is to extend service to an area that wasn't being served.

Greg Kelly

That's prohibited by law. Unlike retail gas stations, we cannot make a profit on gas.

Dan Considine

He cannot be trusted. He should not be in a position of authority. He should stand down. He should not be allowed in politics again and he certainly should not profit from this.

James Mcpherson

I am losing $2,600 a week on fuel that used to go toward my profit.

Robert Mills

We were overdue for some profit-taking after a great run.

Alec Young

The shares are dropping despite good results because the outlook for the operating profit is extremely conservative.

Christian Schindler

If all you see is what you see on television, no wonder they have a negative impression of the industry. It looks like the industry is profiting from disease instead of being a partner in health care.

Billy Tauzin

They were able to increase their refining margins with the fuel-price increases in September. That's the main reason for the huge profit increase.

Lucrecia Tam

The party has no intention of allowing a free press, but now they have to contend with growing professionalism among journalists, profit seeking by media and the effects of exposure to media outside China.

Joseph Cheng

For a company with that much revenue, it's tough to understand why they don't turn a profit.

Chris Penny

It was too much for the market to overcome. Otherwise, it could have been an even better year profit-wise if so much of (companies') earnings weren't deflected into energy costs.

Rick Meckler

Non-farm income is essential for covering family expenses in today's farming with tight profit margins.

Roger Derouchey

If risk aversion goes up there could be profit-taking in the equity markets and that is a major risk.

Hans Goetti

I've had a non-profit, a couple that have contacted me, saying, we'd like to keep this thing going, maybe a different location, who knows -- it might happen.

Tim Quigley

The JSE was lower today on profit taking and the pull back in markets overseas, especially the East. There is no change in the fundamentals.

Ferdi Heyneke

It's a hard business to make a profit in. It's sad when a club closes. It's like a ship going down.

Jack Kramer

The pirate theme is very popular and appeals to families. Focusing on our theme has brought in a 35 to 40 percent increase in profit.

Andres Cibotti

I think the industry's trap is they're in a quarter-to-quarter profit cycle.

Rick Hind

Both manufacturers are profiting from strongly rejuvenated product lines. Demand in the overall car market is rather restrained.

Michael Raab

It will negatively affect our profit margins.

Richard Natale

The market has had an extremely good run since October and it was due a pause and a bit of profit-taking. I would not be surprised if we get a little bit more.

Roger Cursley

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

Anne Baxter

As Japanese companies can no longer absorb the entire negative impact of rising basic material prices with revenue growth, corporate profit trend will slow down further going forward.

Junichi Makino

My intention was to reduce the revenue of the company and increase the [profit] margins.

Bob Bishop

Potential public relations disaster of profiting from filth and blasphemy.

Stephen Green

It's kind of like a shell game. They'll move the profit around so you won't be able to find it.

Ann Fox

In the UK, our sales momentum is highly encouraging and new business profit is increasingly strongly.

Richard Harvey

Our operating profit surpassed our previous estimate because the one-time profit from returning pension funds to government was larger than expected.

Nobuyuki Oneda

The airlines really focused on creating a business model where the front of the plane paid for the back of the plane. It certainly allowed the [big] carriers to make more profit in the 1990s than they had before, but it invited the competition to come in.

Michael Allen

Hard Day's Night was one of those great films that will never happen again to anyone in their lifetime. UA were in profit before we'd even finished shooting - The advance sales on the album - the film was out before the album was out was more than it cost UA to make the film.

Richard Lester

One of the problems is finding a doctor to work for a non-profit and to come work in such an expensive area. We've lost some doctors because of how expensive it is here.

Charise Mchugh

Most of their operating profit comes from the U.S.. Everyone's been hurt by rising oil and gas, especially smaller and mid-sized pickups.

Pete Hastings

Hawaii is taking the absolutely correct approach to the gasoline industry, ... The more states that follow Hawaii's lead, the sooner we'll be able to force this industry to get back to normal market behavior that benefits the consumer but also allows them a reasonable profit.

Joe Dunn

We had a pretty decent pull-back in spot gold, so I think there is some profit-taking here.

Fergal Smith

It is difficult to know what is happening -- it may be profit-taking, but it is certainly not a trend reversal.

Robin Bhar

A lot of this comes on the back of year-end profit taking on what has been a successful position for the market.

Todd Elmer

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

Thomas Paine

It's a savage profit warning for the UK.

Christian Maher

The content isn't the focus. There's so much information available out there right now. It's become a minimum standards. The focus still must be looking at the transaction. That's where the profit lies.

Adam Weiner

These people are profit motivated. Members are not so profit motivated. We just want the lifestyle we bought into.

Robert Dion

Shell is profiting from the current high oil prices, but we are all paying the price. Oil companies must be forced to face up to their wider responsibilities - on climate change, on the environment and on human rights.

Craig Bennett

There's profit-taking, and investors are concerned about interest rates. At this level, investors are cautious.

Tony Tong

I was the first woman doctor in Silverton. We were turning a profit in six months; it couldn't have gone better.

Sarah Peters

It's a profit-driven practice, it's a disturbing practice.

Aaron Reyes

We'll be investigating the first profit statement put out by the company and any consequences to shareholders.

John Burke

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

Thomas Hardy

I didn't see any survivalists; it seemed to be more for profit.

Fred Williams

For the full year, we expect to achieve a good increase in both operating profit before exceptional items and adjusted earnings per share, the two measures of our financial progress.

Martin Broughton

Investors are prioritizing investment into the financial sector now. Fundamentals look good and I expect banks to post further profit gains.

Hideyuki Ookoshi

There won't be surprises on the upside. The market will be resilient, though profit-taking will continue on Chinese equities.

Mandy Chan

Most H-shares have reached irrational highs so investors are now taking profit.

Castor Pang

Cardinal is gaining a lot of market share, increasing margins and acquiring proprietary products that they can sell at a higher profit.

Rick Drake

The principal conclusion is that we expect profit growth to continue through our new forecast horizon.

Abby Joseph Cohen

It was never about making a profit or marketing anything. It was about creating a dialogue between artists.

Nick Harmer

He didn't have any particular expertise in the industry with all of the legislation and the legal issues surrounding the industry. This was an opportunity to get out at a nice profit.

Martin Feldman

They said they were a for-profit organization, and you can't make a profit using accommodations taxes.

Frans Mustert

That's the most important thing: juxtaposing our positive vision for the city against Mike Bloomberg, ... He shouldn't profit from this in the least.

Fernando Ferrer

It's a tremendous financial leap for a historically under-funded non-profit.

Jackie Johnson

This is truly a collaborative project, bringing in advisors from the nonprofit, the for-profit, the academic and the government sectors. We all have an interest in improving how we meet the needs of nonprofits.

Joe Baker

Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.

Fran Lebowitz

I average 250 miles a day in this car. I fill up every day, going to the cheapest pump I can find going home, and it costs $35 to $50. That cuts into my profit quite a bit.

Joseph Anderson

The search engines are increasingly aiming their strategic efforts at traditional content originators and aggregators like newspaper publishers. The irony is that these search engines exist, largely, because of the traditional news and content aggregators and profit at their expense.

Gavin O'reilly

I don't think that she has been treated any different than any other celebrity. Pick any celebrity, any celebrity, and they have received negative coverage so that these magazines can make a profit.

Martin Singer

No one really expected a lower rate. It's just that, in the absence of good news, a flat rate added to the profit taking.

Marcos Basaglia

Merck has been hopelessly disappointing. The profit development is significantly below forecasts despite higher sales.

Heino Ruland

We became a not-for-profit, but we need to grow.

Jeanne Board

I do not ask to profit. I ask for what is fair and proper.

Jackie Peterson

The city is more interested in providing a service to the community than making a profit.

Nancy Jones

The profit margins of these companies are utterly unsustainable. And this should be the inflection year for the Indian firms.

Rod Bourgeois

Non-profit entities are always looking for ways to assist one another with their special projects.

Patrick Hotard

They live in the real world, too. I don't think there was any attempt to maximize the reported (profit) numbers.

Mark Gilman

There was a little profit taking on the light volume and because of some uncertainty over the Y2K problem.

Jorge Gonzalez

Our mission is not just to make a profit, it is to fulfill a calling . . . An ethical standard is higher than a legal standard.

Dianna Booher

They were going to make a huge profit on it.

Jane Redding

The biggest opportunity now is in the not-for-profit systems.

Steve Higdon

At this stage, it appears that the momentum from our accelerated profit improvement effort will continue in the second quarter.

Christopher B. Galvin

If it had been a profit-maker and good for the students, then we probably would have kept it.

Lynne Baker

He's forcing students to sell things. The bottom line is that they are operating a for-profit business.

Bill Grant

One of the porn industry?s major marketing tools for making that enormous profit is e-mail. And many of the e-mails they send are hitting the in-boxes of children and teens.

Matthew Prince

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

The good development at the truck division is showing up more than ever in the profit.

Andreas Renschler

We're going to develop all these guys and if we put the work in, at the end we'll profit from it.

Richard Mann

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

Plutarch

For Xerox, the accounting function was just another revenue source and profit opportunity, ... As a result, investors were misled and betrayed.

Stephen Cutler

The profit is what we give back to the community, and that's what we all do this for.

Brendan Barber

We're education based in the sense that each person that signs on is trained for the job they are placed in. It offers that individual an opportunity to see what other avenues they could explore as far as choosing a career path in the non-profit sector.

Dennis Huratiak

This is the fourth year of profit growth so we are far beyond a recovery. We are at an economic expansion period.

Stefan Rheinwald

More student-athletes would be able to travel and to dress on the field, and it would give institutions the ability to bring more people along for the playoffs and for the title game. Making a profit is an individual institutional decision, but our motivation is to help them not spend as much money and be able to celebrate the event. This will hopefully allow people to do that.

Damani J. Leech

The market has been sitting very long for some time and as such it expects to see some profit-taking.

Simon Weeks

Profit is not a dirty word. It doesn't matter if they're making $100-million or $100,000 on the project. That's not our concern as council members. Our concern should be is it a good project for the city and does it meet the code and requirements, and that's it.

John Dingfelder

Given we are almost 6-8 months ahead of an imminent slowdown in orders, we recommend that clients start to take some profit in equipment names in general.

Avinash Kant

The Shanghai Composite Index may test the key 1300 level again today, but further gains will be limited by profit-taking pressure.

Ding Chaoyu

The return to profit, plus lower contributions to the employees' pension fund thanks to a new law, will definitely help the government sell the bank.

Dimitris Haralambopoulos

But the key here is really going to be guidance. Everyone is looking for signs of the rolling over of profit growth, although not as much as the Fed or higher energy prices might indicate.

Jack Ablin

As in 2004, we have achieved another record level of profit.

Peter Wuffli

We have delivered what we said we would deliver, ... We have got very strong profit growth in a number of our businesses.

John Varley

I think that's possible, but I don't think that's his main motive. His motive is profit. But we certainly could reap some benefit out of it.

Barry Cottrell

In the wake of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, millions of Americans dug into their pockets to help those in need, ... A few, sadly, tried to profit from the misfortune of others. Given the immense suffering occasioned by this storm, these crimes are disturbing and disappointing.

Chuck Rosenberg

Input price pressures are abating and this should reduce uncertainty and pressure on profit margins in coming months.

David Hensley

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

Byron Paulson

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.

George Grosz

Honda, which achieved profit increases amid higher fuel prices and U.S. interest rates, will become even more popular following the stock split.

Shigemi Nonaka