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“Business is better able to solve societal problems than charity. Because solutions are sustained anywhere there is a profit motive.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Businesses profit by solving social problems. Therefore, it's business - not charity or government - that should be employed to solve many of the big societal problems of today. Whether it's the climate crises, or gender equity, or pollution or whatever... Business can solve those problems.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Businesses are uniquely capable of creating social value and solving social problems - they have this wonderful fuel called the profit motive.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Anyone who is truly crazy, in my book, wouldn't be able to understand the dialectic of crazy and not-crazy. Listen, I've worked for the pharmaceutical companies, they have a vested belief in making you believe that if you have a chemical imbalance you need them to be 'cured' of your current issues and personality. Indefinitely. Imagine diagnosing personality only in terms of its negative aspects. Does this strike you as a strategy designed for health? The only way to deal with a problem is to fucking deal with it. Get inside what positive motivation, what intention, makes you behave in the way you are... and how you could maybe satisfy that need in a healthier or at least more agreeable manner. America wants quick, easy and painless; being a real person is slow, difficult and very messy.”
― James Curcio, Join My Cult!

“The profit motive is powerful. It incentivizes people to be valuable, efficient and productive. Because profit cannot be sustainability obtained without first being valuable, efficient and productive.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“There was a time when the [National baseball]League stood for integrity and fair dealing. Today it stands for dollars and cents. Once it looked to the elevation of the game and an honest exhibition of the sport. Today its eyes are on the turnstile. Men have come into the business for no other motive than to exploit it for every dollar in sight.

Brotherhood Manifesto, November 1889”
― Mike Sowell, July 2, 1903: The Mysterious Death of Hall-Of-Famer Big Ed Delahanty

“While the bottom line is important, profits aren’t everything. That’s the bottom line.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, The Path to a Meaningful Life

“In business, there are only 2 rules: if incurring a loss, how to turn profitable; and if running at a profit, how to scale it.”
― Chintha Sai Bhargav Reddy