Best 329 quotes in «profit quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.

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

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

Short-term can be terminal.

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life.

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

The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.

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 best way to invest corporate profits is to give them to the employees.

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.

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

The brands that will thrive in the coming years are the ones that have a purpose beyond profit.

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

The future of profit is purpose.

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

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 profits follow, and if we have remembered that, they have never failed to appear.

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 mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.