Gain

Gain is an increase in wealth, often through profit or an increase in value of an investment.

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• And if you mean to profit, learn to please.
  • Charles Churchill, Gotham (1764), Book II, line 88.

• Share the advice betwixt you: if both gain, all
  The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis receiv'd,
  And is enough for both.
  • William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well (1600s), Act II, scene 1, line 3.

• Men that hazard all
  Do it in hope of fair advantages:
  A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.
  • William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act II, scene 7, line 18.

• No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en;
  In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
  • William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1593-94), Act I, scene 1, line 39.

• As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it.
  • George Washington, in Congress on his appointment as Commander-in-Chief (June 16, 1775).

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 306.

• Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
  • Thomas Carlyle, Essays, Goethe's Helena.

• Little pains
  In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.
  • John Philips, Cider, Book I, line 126.

• Necesse est facere sumptum, qui quærit lucrum.
  • He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
  • Plautus, Asinaria, I, 3, 65.

• Lucrum malum æquale dispendio.
  • An evil gain equals a loss.
  • Syrus, Maxims.

• Hoc scitum'st periculum ex aliis facere, tibi quid ex usu sit.
  • From others' slips some profit from one's self to gain.
  • Terence, Heauton timorumenos, I, 2.