Best 329 quotes in «profit quotes» category

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

The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

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

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 profit on a good action is to have done it.

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

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

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 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'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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.

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

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

Tobacco is the only industry that produces products to make huge profits and at the same time damage the health and kill their consumers.

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

Unless we change direction, models show that the profit of the entire consumer goods sector could be wiped out by 2050.

To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit.

Transcendent values like trust and integrity literally translate into revenue, profits and prosperity.

U.S. companies rely on the European market for more than half of their global foreign profits.

Wall Street is where prophets tell us what will happen and profits tell us what did happen.

Virtual business out sources all the work and in sources all the profits.

We all like to see everybody make a profit... a very little.

We must take the profit out of war.

We don't see profit as a blind instrument.

We know that BP cuts safety corners, takes risks, and is unconcerned about anything other than their own profit.

Well if you've got information about a company, or you believe that a company is undervalued, you can go out and buy their stock and you can make some profit on it.

We're essentially continuing a system where profits are privatized and...losses socialized.

What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.

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

We've got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.

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

What profit has not that fable of Christ brought us!

What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings.

When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.

When consumers know things, they tend to make informed choices, and that could affect corporate profits. I'm sorry, but your right to know is always going to be outweighed by their right to hide it from you.