Best 329 quotes in «profit quotes» category

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

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.

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

Even genius is tied to 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.

Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

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

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

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

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.

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.]

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

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

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.

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.

Honor and profit lie not all in one sack.

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

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

If you mean to profit, learn to please.

I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

I mean, Donald Trump hasn't even been sworn in yet. And so I do believe that he has set up a plan where the revenue or the profits that are coming to the hotel will be given directly to the Treasury.

I thank God to have it. I thank God that I finished it. And I hope that I will live enough to take profit of it.

In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before the interests of a deified market, which become the only rule.

In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.

Inside an organization there are only cost centers. The only profit center is a customer whose check has not bounced.

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

Interest is theft, Rent Robbery, and Profit Only Another Name for Plunder.

In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.

Investors have to remember: corporate profits are going up, but stocks are going up faster. How can that continue indefinitely? Investors can only earn what companies themselves can earn; the government or the markets themselves don't kick anything in. How can you get anything more out of a farm than what it grows?

It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce.

It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.

It is not size that counts in business. Some companies with $500,000 capital net more profits than other companies with $5,000,000. Size is a handicap unless efficiency goes with it.

It should be a crime to make a profit off somebody being sick.

It is worth pointing out that assuredly not more than one person out of a hundred who stayed in the market after after 1925 emerged from it with a net profit and that the speculative losses taken were appalling.

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

It is now abundantly clear that the Clintons set up a business to profit from public office. They sold access and specific actions by and really for I guess the making of large amounts of money.

I've always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had always been rapping.

It's safe to say that the value of the property had shot up considerably and in the end I made a pretty satisfying profit.

It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.

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

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

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