Profit Quotes

Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

There's no such thing as business ethics; there's just ethics. And ethics makes no concessions for the real or imagined necessities of making a profit.

Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.

Republics have a longer life and enjoy better fortune than principalities, because they can profit by their greater internal diversity. They are the better able to meet emergencies.

There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.

What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit.

If customer ignorance is a profit centre for you, you're in trouble.

If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It's management's risk and management's responsibility. Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?

We Shall Build Good Ships Here; At A Profit If We Can, At A Loss If We Must, But Always Good Ships.

If conservatives get to call universal healthcare 'socialized medicine,' I get to call private, for-profit healthcare 'soulless, vampire bastards making money off human pain.'

A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.

We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.

So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.

Inside an organization there are only cost centers. The only profit center is a customer whose check has not bounced.

Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product.

Personally I do not believe in the likelihood of Persian oil deposits being worked at profit.

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

I never lost money by turning a profit.

Profit in business comes from repeat customers

The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.

They speak of "This Dojo" and "That Dojo". They are looking for profit.

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it.

Profits are better than wages.

Two of the biggest drivers of airline profit are change fees and baggage fees.

It is not size that counts in business. Some companies with $500,000 capital net more profits than other companies with $5,000,000. Size is a handicap unless efficiency goes with it.

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.

Truly visionary and successful companies have discovered that there is no conflict between the pursuit of profit and having a pursuit beyond profit.

The UN is but a long-range, international banking apparatus clearly set up for financial and economic profit by a small group of powerful One-World revolutionaries, hungry for profit and power.

Derivative trading with mark-to-market accounting degenerates into mark-to-model. Two firms make a big derivative trade and the accountants on both sides show a large profit from the same trade.

They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because they're working on the Oscars show. It's the biggest show in the world.

American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.

I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses, nor pursue measures by which they may profit, and then profit by their measures.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

I, who fall short in managing my own affairs, can see just how it would profit my neighbor if I managed his.

Some of the largest financial institutions can build a profit model on tricking people.

A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.

Teach players the game at an early age and stop treating them like cash cows for everyone to profit off of.

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves

It is imperative to contest all factions for complete victory, so the army is not garrisoned and the profit can be total. This is the law of strategic siege.

The for-profit education industry has proven equal to the task.

With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.

Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

While the end-of-the-world scenario will be rife with unimaginable horrors, we believe that the pre-end period will be filled with unprecedented opportunities for profit.

Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.