Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
138
AUTHOR:
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965)
QUOTATION:
The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman’s speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss.
ATTRIBUTION:
WINSTON CHURCHILL, remarks in the House of Commons responding to a Laborite speech on the evils of free enterprise.—James C. Humes, Speaker’s Treasury of Anecdotes About the Famous, p. 45 (1978). Unverified.
