Profit Quotes

Profit sharing in the form of stock distributions to workers would help to democratize the ownership of America's vast corporate wealth which is today appallingly undemocratic and unhealthy.

You do not require an invitation to make profits.

The greatest human achievements have never been for profit.

We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it.

Obviously the best way to retain the most profit is to not give any of it away. That's something that you certainly learn through the years.

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

Remember the people you address are selfish, as we all are. They care nothing about your interests or profit. They seek service for themselves

What profit has not that fable of Christ brought us!

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Experience has proved to me that real money made in speculating has been in commitments in a stock or commodity showing a profit right from the start.

A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.

We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.

Steve Jobs and Apple taught us that profit is not the ultimate goal, but rather a consequence of something greater.

Amateurs go broke taking large losses, professionals go broke taking small profits.

People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

Be upright in thy whole life; be content in all its changes;so shalt thou make thy profit out of all occurrences; so shall everything that happeneth unto thee be the source of praise

The problem with addicted people, communities, corporations, or countries is that they tend to lie, cheat, or steal to get their 'fix.' Corporations are addicted to profit and governments to power.

Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

Look for companies with high profit margins.

We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.

The entire socioeconomic system is based on production for profit and a growth imperative that cannot be sustained.

At my age, I know myself. If I make a project, it's a way to help me. I don't do it for therapeutic reasons, but I know that the therapy can be a side profit.

Profit isn't a purpose, it's a result. To have purpose means the things we do are of real value to others.

The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real joy of living.

We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.

There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.

No one ever went broke by taking a profit.

Profit is a reward for satisfying the desire of someone else.

As bees extract honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the most awkward circumstances.

Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.

Under perfect competition, in the long run no company makes an economic profit.

Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.

you may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular thing

Perhaps my number one rule is: Don't try to make a profit on a bad trade, just try to find the best place to get out.

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

We have a system that's really founded on profit and on selling pharmaceuticals as opposed to keeping people healthy and then helping them get back to health.

The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.

Profit is like oxygen, food, water, and blood for the body; they are not the point of life, but without them, there is no life.

During the Gold Rush, most would-be miners lost money, but people who sold them picks, shovels, tents and blue-jeans (Levi Strauss) made a nice profit.

In Europe, Socialism is just another political party. It just means that government takes over certain things like hospitals, prisons, military and schools that should not be run for profit.

To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.

I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based.

Throw away profit and greed, and there won't be any thieves.

Wars are popular. Contractors make profits; the aristocracy glean honour.

I believe in God... but I don't believe in religion. Religion is used to manipulate and punish. Used in a thousand ways for profit for even in the church, money is still the 'real' God.

Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.