Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
—Stephen Leacock
You may break any written law in America with impunity. There is an unwritten law that you break at your peril. It is: do not attack the profit system.
—Mary Heaton Vorse
Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well-ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt.
—Edna Ferber
If you count all your assets you always show a profit.
—Wilson Mizner