Best 329 quotes in «profit quotes» category

Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

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

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

Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization.

Profit is what we have left after we make a donation to a worthwhile cause.

Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.

Profit is proof that the capitalist has given something to society that it cherishes more than the material wealth it has given to the businessman.

Profit is the celebration of service.

Profits are part of the mechanism by which society decides what it wants to see produced.

Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.

'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.

Profit is a blessing, if it's not stolen.

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

Profits are better than wages.

Profit is what happens when you do everything else right.

Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity.

Profit maximization is the murderous strategy of global corporation hierarchies

Short-term can be terminal.

Sell practical, tested merchandise at a reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings - and they will always come back.

Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No.

Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.

Show me who makes a profit from war, and I'll show you how to stop the war.

Socialism will be here the day we share our profits to the degree we share our failures.

Size of industry, concentration of market, or production notwithstanding, the consumer is best served when the businessman is completely free to pursue his profit goals.

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

Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!

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

The answer is the disruptive innovator, an outsider, who creates a product or service for the non-existing consumer in a non-existing market for almost no profit.

The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life.

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

The best businesses are really ones that can combine passion, profits, and purpose.

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.

The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.

The concept of profit maximization is, in fact, meaningless.

The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.

The corporation, like the psychopathic personality it resembles, is programmed to exploit others for profit.

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.

The difference in the profit and loss is usually ... do not quit.

The entire pursuit of value investing requires you to see where the crowd is wrong so that you can profit from their misperceptions.

The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.

The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.

The fastest surging woman leadership position is heading non-profit organizations. Women are not rejecting leadership positions -- they're rejecting politics.

The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.

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

The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.

The profit on a good action is to have done it.

The profit orientation is only one orientation of a person. The same people who are interested in profit-making are also selfless. I am not saying that capitalist theory is wrong. I am saying that it has not been interpreted and practiced fully.