Seneca: Crime Committed by Profits

Seneca Money Quote saying that those that benefit from criminal acts have as good as committed them. Seneca said:
 

 

“He has committed the crime who profits by it” — Seneca

 
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John Steinbeck: Bank Monster Growing

John Steinbeck Money Quote saying bank must constantly grow in profit and can’t stop without dying – profit and growth is their reason to exist. John Steinbeck said:
 

 

“The bank – the monster has to have profits all the time. It can’t wait. It’ll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can’t stay one size” — John Steinbeck

 
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Adam Smith: High Wages, High Profits

Adam Smith Money Quote saying business owners fully blame wages for increasing the cost of goods, but rarely believe profits have any deleterious effect. Adam Smith said:

Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits
— Adam Smith

 
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Bernie Sanders: Get Richer by Hiding Profits

Bernie Sanders Money Quote saying in reference to the leak of Appleby law firm data that shows how the wealthy hide profits in offshore tax havens to avoid paying taxes on them. Bernie Sanders said:

[Paradise Papers] shows how these billionaires and multinational corporations get richer by hiding their wealth and profits and avoid paying their fair share of taxes
— Bernie Sanders

 
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Adam Smith: Pernicious Effects of Gain

Adam Smith Money Quote saying retailers complain of the high cost of wages but never of profits. Adam Smith said:

Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people
— Adam Smith

Elayne Boosler: Newspapers Cut Comics

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While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their own throats; they keep reducing space for the one feature that attracts new young readers in the first place; the comic strips
— Elayne Boosler

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Norman Eisen: Trump Hotel Emoluments

Norman Eisen Money Quote as former chief White House ethics lawyer for President Obama acknowledging Trump Hotel profits have been resolved emoluments clause concerns based on plan put forward by Trump ethics lawyers – but no other aspect of his businesses are included. Norman Eisen said:

The emoluments clause is not written to say that all emoluments are permitted except for Trump hotel profits
— Norman Eisen

Sheri Dillon: Trump Hotel Profits to Treasury

Sheri Dillon Money Quote saying as conflict of interest attorney for Donald Trump that any profit from foreign government payments made to his hotels would be donated to the U.S Treasury. Sheri Dillon said:

President-elect Trump [will] voluntarily donate all profits from foreign government payments made to his hotels to the United States Treasury. This way it is the American people who will profit
— Sheri Dillon