quotes about Profit
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Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.
-- Alan Ladd -
Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
-- Alvin Toffler -
One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
-- B. Carroll Reece -
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Why is pot against the law? It wouldn't be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can't make a profit off it, would it?
-- Bill Hicks -
What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.
-- Bill Janklow -
If it's wrong to wreck the planet, it's wrong to profit from the wreckage.
-- Bill McKibben -
The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.
-- Bonnie Raitt -
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Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.
-- Carlos Ghosn -
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.
-- Carlos Ghosn -
A profit is not without honor save in Boston.
-- Carolyn Wells -
I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.
-- Charles KochSource : "Koch Responds to Buffett’s Call for Tax Hikes" by Daniel Foster, www.nationalreview.com. August 19, 2011.
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Profit per se is not my motive.
-- Chris HughesSource : "I Think It Would Be Fun to Run the New Republic: Chris Hughes as Charles Foster" by Tim Carmody, www.wired.com. March 9, 2012.
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We in America count on the profit motive to get people to do the right thing. That's our basic American notion when it comes to business.
-- Chris Matthews -
If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety,but profit.
-- Clement of Alexandria -
We Shall Build Good Ships Here; At A Profit If We Can, At A Loss If We Must, But Always Good Ships.
-- Collis Potter Huntington -
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We all like to see everybody make a profit... a very little.
-- Cullen Hightower -
There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.
-- Daniel Bernoulli -
The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.
-- David RicardoSource : David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.68
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There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.
-- David RicardoSource : David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.31
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There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down....
-- David RicardoSource : David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1888). “Works: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author”
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The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits;...
-- David Ricardo -
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
-- Denis Waitley -
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You do not require an invitation to make profits.
-- Dhirubhai Ambani -
When you see someone who has turned his passion into a profit, ask yourself, ‘Why not me?
-- Donny Deutsch -
The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.
-- Edward Norton -
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.
-- Edwin Lefevre -
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Many Enron employees lost 70 percent to 90 percent of their retirement assets after the company indicated that it would re-state profit reports,
-- Elaine Chao -
To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.
-- Eliot Spitzer -
At every occasion in your life, do not forget to commune with yourself and ask of yourself how you can profit by it.
-- Epictetus -
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Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend.
-- Eric Sevareid -
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..
-- Ethan ZuckermanSource : "Dot-coms turn declining small town into 'Silicon Village'" by Perri Peltz, cnn.com. December 30, 2000.
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Interest is theft, Rent Robbery, and Profit Only Another Name for Plunder.
-- Ezra Heywood -
I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.
-- Felix RohatynSource : "Felix Rohatyn’s ‘Dealings’" by Robert Teitelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2010.
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It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
The profit of the one is the profit of the other.
-- Frederic Bastiat -
The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.
-- Frederick Soddy -
If customer ignorance is a profit centre for you, you're in trouble.
-- Gary Hamel -
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The profits follow, and if we have remembered that, they have never failed to appear.
-- George W. Merck -
The greatest human achievements have never been for profit.
-- H. P. LovecraftSource : Unpublished letter to the "Providence Journal" (13 April 1934), quoted in "Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy", edited by J. T. Joshi, (pp. 115-116), 1976.
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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
-- Haile Selassie -
I've had such a great track record in making a huge profit when the movies are smaller.
-- Harvey Weinstein -
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There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit ...
-- Helen Keller -
Show me who makes a profit from war, and I'll show you how to stop the war.
-- Henry Ford -
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.
-- Hesiod -
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He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.
-- Iain PearsSource : Iain Pears (1999). “AN Instance of the Fingerpost”, p.112, Penguin
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Profits and prices are the street signs of the economy. Only fools flout them. The much-maligned price system works not only to secure supply but to conserve.
-- Ilana Mercer -
There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.
-- J. Paul Getty -
We don't see profit as a blind instrument.
-- Jacqueline Novogratz -
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.
-- James A. Baldwin -
Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.
-- James Buchan -
The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry.
-- James Larkin -
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Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits.
-- Jeremy Grantham -
Once you privatize something, it becomes a for-profit business.
-- Jesse Ventura -
Proving that profit is economically and morally justifiable, rather then the result of exploitation, has been a central preoccupation of neoclassical economists.
-- Jim StanfordSource : "Economics For Everyone". Book by Jim Stanford, 2008.
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Wikipedia is a non-profit. It was either the dumbest thing I ever did or the smartest thing I ever did.
-- Jimmy WalesSource : "The Wisdom of One". www.theage.com.au. April 25, 2007.
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Rosa Luxemburg maintained that the capitalist system can keep up its rate of investment (and therefore its profits) only so long as it is expanding geographically.
-- Joan Robinson -
The corporation, like the psychopathic personality it resembles, is programmed to exploit others for profit.
-- Joel BakanSource : Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.69, Simon and Schuster
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U.S. companies rely on the European market for more than half of their global foreign profits.
-- John Bruton -
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.]
-- John Gower -
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Things of greatest profit are set forth with least price. Where the wine is neat there needeth no live blush.
-- John Lyly -
Where were living we have a certain amount of our profit every year its like a percentage 5 or 7% or something like that that we set aside specifically for charity things.
-- Jon Fishman -
Business is about profit, yes, and it is about more than profit. At its best, it is about expanding the possibilities of humanity.
-- Jon Miller -
Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.
-- Joseph A. Schumpeter -
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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.
-- Josh Billings -
There is, in the heart, the hard-rendering profit. As if we were plucking the leaves from the trees.
-- Katy LedererSource : Katy Lederer (2008). “The Heaven-sent Leaf: Poems”, Boa Editions
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By definition startups usually do not turn a profit.
-- Kevin Harrington -
A hacker doesnt deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.
-- Kevin Mitnick -
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In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.
-- Lajos KossuthSource : Lajos Kossuth (1853). “Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman”, p.30
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Throw away profit and greed, and there won't be any thieves.
-- Laozi -
Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
-- Larry Elder -
We make our profits through content and services.
-- Lei Jun -
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Sell practical, tested merchandise at a reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings - and they will always come back.
-- Leon Leonwood Bean -
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.
-- Leslie Moonves -
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.
-- Lewis H. Lapham -
There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.
-- Lewis HineSource : Lewis Wickes Hine, John R. Kemp (1986). “Lewis Hine: photographs of child labor in the new South”, Univ Pr of Mississippi
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Perhaps my number one rule is: Don't try to make a profit on a bad trade, just try to find the best place to get out.
-- Linda Bradford Raschke -
You know how to vanquish, Hannibal, but you do not know how to profit from victory.
-- Livy -
Profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis.
-- Llewellyn Rockwell -
Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins.
-- Lope de Vega -
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It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.
-- Lou Gerstner -
No mass appeal. Ergo no profit. Ergo no use. The current World Credo.
-- Lucille KallenSource : Lucille Kallen (1980). “C.B. Greenfield: the Tanglewood murder”, Simon & Schuster
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
-- Ludwig von Mises -
I've made a profit from everything I have done in life.
-- Magnus -
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Tobacco is the only industry that produces products to make huge profits and at the same time damage the health and kill their consumers.
-- Margaret Chan -
Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one’s self without thought of profit.
-- Marguerite Yourcenar -
Short-term can be terminal.
-- Mark McCormackSource : Mark H. McCormack (2016). “What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School: Notes from a Street-smart Executive”, p.164, Bantam
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I don't care if what we do makes a profit; I care whether we get somebody out of a wheelchair.
-- Mark Noble -
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A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.
-- Marvin BowerSource : Marvin Bower (1966). “The will to manage: corporate success through programmed management”
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'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.
-- Matt Taibbi -
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.
-- Max AzriaSource : "A Fashionable Life: Max & Lubov Azria" by Marshall Heyman, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 12, 2009.
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I've always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had always been rapping.
-- Meek Mill -
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Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.
-- Michael Lewis -
When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.
-- Michael McKean -
Mitt Romney understands the private sector, he understands how profit is created, and he isn't embarrassed by it.
-- Michele Bachmann -