Best 329 quotes in «profit quotes» category

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

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

The future of profit is purpose.

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

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

The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

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

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 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 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 more ways than one to measure profits and losses.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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