Best 329 quotes in «profit quotes» category

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The foundation is an instrument forged by citizens who transfer profit from the commercial sector and put it directly to work as risk capital for the general betterment of the society.

The much-maligned price system works not only to secure supply but to conserve. [...] Profits and prices are the street signs of the economy. Only fools flout them.

The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

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

The future of profit is purpose.

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

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

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 principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.

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.

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

The profits follow, and if we have remembered that, they have never failed to appear.

The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.

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

There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.

There are more ways than one to measure profits and losses.

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

There is, in the heart, the hard-rendering profit. As if we were plucking the leaves from the trees.

They don't take eyeballs at the bank. Those who value stocks by eyeballs should go be ophthalmologists, not stock analysts. There is no cyberworld where reach trumps profits.

There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.

There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.

There's something that's so basically corrupt about any system in which a good and fair profit is not enough. There has to be more, every year, every quarter, because your stock price has to rise.

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

The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

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

Things of greatest profit are set forth with least price. Where the wine is neat there needeth no live blush.

There`s sort of a chilling effect on non-profits and the media and a lot of other places because the establishment is so powerful. That`s where the money is.

The second part of the New Right's policy package has been the belief that free-market solutions are always best. It is this latter view which is profoundly mistaken. Markets and profits are crucial, but the pure free-market model itself is deeply flawed.

The studios are making fewer films. They are making more expensive films. Profits are tougher to come by. Not only because of the expense of production. But also because of the expense of promotion and hype. To boil that all down, it's more about hype than it is about filmmaking.

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

Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance.