Best 329 quotes in «profit quotes» category

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

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 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 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.

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

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

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.

I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity

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

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

Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.

Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.

Profit is a blessing, if it's not stolen.

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.

Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization.

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

Profit maximization is the murderous strategy of global corporation hierarchies

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 is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

Profits are better than wages.

Profit is what happens when you do everything else right.

Sell practical, tested merchandise at a reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings - and they will always come back.

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

Short-term can be terminal.

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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