Best 329 quotes in «profit quotes» category

Kickstarter isn't a profit center, it's an organizer and an instigator.

More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them.

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.

Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

No offense but I don't relish being someone's science experiment. Been there, done that, and sold the T-shirt for profit. (Sebastian)

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

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

No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs.

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.

Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Profit maximization is the murderous strategy of global corporation hierarchies

Short-term can be terminal.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life.

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

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 brands that will thrive in the coming years are the ones that have a purpose beyond 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 engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.

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

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 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.