Profit Quotes

Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits.

A Movie That Costs Only $1.6 Million Doesn't Have to Be a Cultural Event to Turn a Profit.

Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.

Ben's emphasis was on protecting his expectation of profit with minimum risk.

The advice "you never go broke taking a profit" is foolish.

The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.

These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.

if companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say.

Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which will necessarily profit.

Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.

He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

If it's wrong to wreck the planet, it's wrong to profit from the wreckage.

A spider web of 'patriots for profit', operating from the highest positions of special trust and confidence, have successfully circumvented our constitutional system in pursuit of a New World Order.

The proper man understands equity, the small man profits.

Many people and companies only have one goal: money, money, and more money. Greed is ok when you let others profit from it, but greed for oneself is bad, it makes you ill.

Write on a subject you love. Your profit center should also be your passion center.

If you can't figure out how to make money on three billion in revenue, when exactly will the profit magic be found? Ten billion? Fifty billion?

The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits.

The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.

If a stock doesn’t act right don’t touch it; because, being unable to tell precisely what is wrong, you cannot tell which way it is going. No diagnosis, no prognosis. No prognosis, no profit.

Many Enron employees lost 70 percent to 90 percent of their retirement assets after the company indicated that it would re-state profit reports.

Donald Trump doesn't care who gets hurt, as long as he makes a profit off it.

The culture around here is much less cutthroat than it is in, say, Silicon Valley, or even within the non-profit culture in D.C.

Interest is theft, Rent Robbery, and Profit Only Another Name for Plunder.

A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried!

Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.

Safe-breaking and vault-breaking are at least as old as the pyramids and burial chambers of Egypt. Poking holes in vaults and safes for profit appears to be as durable as greed.

We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess.

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Have you been working on Sunday? Have you been buying or selling without necessity in the course of this holy day? Give to the poor some alms which will exceed the profit you have made.

Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value as profit are visible surface phenomena

By definition startups usually do not turn a profit.

The industry is littered with self-styled purists who believe the business of media.. the requirement to make a profit.. somehow corrupts the craft.

I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.

The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

The basic issue is whether the financial elite or the government on behalf of the people should have the profit from creating money.

Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins.

When a profit-seeking company proposes to take citizens' private land away for its own gain, people should stand up for their rights.

No private enterprise will ever fall prey to bureaucratic methods of management if it is operated with the sole aim of making profit.

Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

The bottom line is down where it belongs – at the bottom. Far above it in importance are the infinite number of events that produce the profit or loss.

That, to me, is a kind of brilliant environmental ju-jitsu - using the energy of the market and the profit-motive to get businesses to invest in preserving and improving natural systems.

All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments.

The best way to invest corporate profits is to give them to the employees.

The brands that will thrive in the coming years are the ones that have a purpose beyond profit.

However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution.