A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
利润
Profit
Profit is better than fame.
利大于名。
Profit is profit even in Mecca.
即使在麦加，利润也是利润。
I never lost money by turning a profit.
我从来没有因为盈利而亏本。
Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.
没有人会因为获利而赔钱。
Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
文明和利益是相辅相成的。
Movie makers now choose profit over vision.
如今，电影制作人更看重利润而不是愿景。
He only profits from praise who values criticism.
只有重视批评的人才能从表扬中获益。
If you count all your assets you always show a profit.
如果你把所有的资产都计算在内，你总能得到利润。
Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.
一分耕耘一分收获。
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
我们给人忠告，却不能以智慧使人得益处。
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
从好的建议中获益需要的智慧比给出建议更多。
The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.
大亨们是由他们各自对利润的渴望所驱使的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers.
越来越多的人担心，石油公司以牺牲消费者利益为代价赚取了太多利润。
Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.
欣赏小船，但要把货物装进大船;因为所负的担子越重，所获的益处就越大。
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
因此，缺乏才能的学生将不会从这项工作中获得更多的利润，就像从一篇农业论文中获得贫瘠的土壤一样。
Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
提醒人们利润是收入和支出的差额。这会让你看起来很聪明。
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
只有当有钱的阶层认为他们能从中获利时，才会发生对外国的战争。
As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.
因此，进步仅仅意味着更大的权力、更多的利润、更高的生产率、更多的纸张繁荣，所有这些都可以转化为只与大小或规模有关的标准，而不是质量或卓越性。