Best 329 quotes in «profit quotes» category

Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.

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

A day of minor profit or prophet led to a night of drunkenness.

A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.

All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

Amateurs go broke taking large losses, professionals go broke taking small profits.

A market system is not a profit system, it's a profit-and-loss system.

An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits

Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from learning, is betraying knowledge and rendering it worthless

As anyone who goes into dog-rescue knows, it is not a for-profit business, but the rewards are priceless for me.

At every occasion in your life, do not forget to commune with yourself and ask of yourself how you can profit by it.

A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.

At this late stage in the history of American capitalism I'm not sure I know how much testimony still needs to be presented to establish the relation between profit and theft.

Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.

A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

Before you count the profit, count the cost of a working mother.

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

Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend.

Big business is willing to destroy the planet for short-term profits

Broadcast TV is still the mothership and it will be for the foreseeable future. Audiences may be declining slightly but revenues are going up and profits are going up.

Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.

Business is no longer a matter of profits alone. Profits must come through public confidence, and public confidence is given to any merchant in proportion to the service which he gives to the public.

Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits.

Creativity is not like the weather: You can do something about it. And you can measure it well enough to determine its effect on sales and profits.

Capital which overreaches for profits; labor which overreaches for wages, or a public which overreaches for bargains will all destroy such other. There is no salvation for us on that road.

Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.

Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.

During the period of capital moving from one employment to another, the profits on that to which capital is flowing will be relatively high, but will continue so no longer than till the requisite capital is obtained.

Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.

Even genius is tied to profit.

Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be.

Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.

For who that noght dar undertake, Be riht he schal no profit take [For who that dare not undertake, By right he shall no profit take. i.e., Nothing ventured, nothing gained.]

Football is the most successful cult, in terms of members and profits, in human history. Oh wait, there's also religion.

For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.

Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.

A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.

He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.

Gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.

Growth and profit are a product of how people work together.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Honor and profit lie not all in one sack.

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

I don't care if what we do makes a profit; I care whether we get somebody out of a wheelchair.

If customer ignorance is a profit centre for you, you're in trouble.

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.

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety,but profit.

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

If you do something for fun and create the best possible product, then the profit will come.