Profit Quotes:

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

- Alan Ladd

topic: Profit, Jimmy, Jimmy Stewart

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

- Alvin Toffler

topic: Sausage, Profit

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

topic: Hard Work, Use, Profit

I never lost money by turning a profit.

- Bernard Baruch

topic: Lost, Profit, Lost Money

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

topic: Law, Pot, Profit

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

topic: Umpires, Giving, Profit, Citibank, Arbitrage

If it's wrong to wreck the planet, it's wrong to profit from the wreckage.

- Bill McKibben

topic: Wrecks, Wreckage, Profit

The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.

- Bonnie Raitt

topic: Band, Profit, Members, Non Profit

Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.

- Carlos Ghosn

topic: Crosses, Profit, Aspect

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

topic: People, Profit, Function

A profit is not without honor save in Boston.

- Carolyn Wells

topic: Boston, Honor, Profit

I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.

- Charles Koch

source: "Koch Responds to Buffett’s Call for Tax Hikes" by Daniel Foster, www.nationalreview.com. August 19, 2011.

topic: Believe, Investment, Profit, Non Profit

Profit per se is not my motive.

- Chris Hughes

source: "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.

topic: Profit, Motive

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

topic: America, People, Profit, Profit Motive

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

topic: Would Be, Profit, Righteous

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

topic: Loss, Ships, Profit

We all like to see everybody make a profit... a very little.

- Cullen Hightower

topic: Money, Littles, Profit

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

topic: Philosophy, Knowledge, Profit

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

- David Ricardo

source: 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

topic: Wages, Profit, Farmers, Labourers

There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.

- David Ricardo

source: David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.31

topic: Fall, Profit, Labour

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down....

- David Ricardo

source: David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1888). “Works: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author”

topic: Wages, Way, Profit

The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits;...

- David Ricardo

topic: Differences, Variation, Profit

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Integrity, Lines, Profit, Bottom Line

Profit is the celebration of service.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Celebration, Profit

You do not require an invitation to make profits.

- Dhirubhai Ambani

topic: Profit, Invitations

When you see someone who has turned his passion into a profit, ask yourself, ‘Why not me?

- Donny Deutsch

topic: Passion, Why Not, Profit

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

- Edward Norton

topic: Roots, Incentives, Profit

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

topic: Retirement, Profit, Lost, Enron

To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Mistake, Divine, Profit

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

- Eliot Spitzer

topic: Management, Behavior, Profit, Shareholders

At every occasion in your life, do not forget to commune with yourself and ask of yourself how you can profit by it.

- Epictetus

topic: Forget, Profit, Communes, Every Occasion

Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend.

- Eric Sevareid

topic: Dream, Brotherhood, 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..

- Ethan Zuckerman

source: "Dot-coms turn declining small town into 'Silicon Village'" by Perri Peltz, cnn.com. December 30, 2000.

topic: Culture, Valleys, Profit, Silicon, Non Profit

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

- Ezra Heywood

topic: Names, Plunder, Profit, Robbery

I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.

- Felix Rohatyn

source: "Felix Rohatyn’s ‘Dealings’" by Robert Teitelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2010.

topic: Believe, Profit, Capitalist

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

topic: Self, Advice, Profit

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

- Frederic Bastiat

topic: Profit

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

- Frederick Soddy

topic: Banking, Today, Profit

If customer ignorance is a profit centre for you, you're in trouble.

- Gary Hamel

topic: Ignorance, Trouble, Profit

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

- George W. Merck

topic: Profit, Remembered

The greatest human achievements have never been for profit.

- H. P. Lovecraft

source: 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.

topic: Achievement, Profit, Humans

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

topic: Wish, May, Profit

I've had such a great track record in making a huge profit when the movies are smaller.

- Harvey Weinstein

topic: Track, Records, Profit

There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit ...

- Helen Keller

topic: Race, Profit, Insidious

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

- Henry Ford

topic: War, Profit, Show Me

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

topic: Ships, Profit, Admire

Poets wish to profit or to please.

- Horace

topic: Wish, Poet, Profit

He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.

- Iain Pears

source: Iain Pears (1999). “AN Instance of the Fingerpost”, p.112, Penguin

topic: Profit, Villainy

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

topic: Fool, Economy, Profit

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

- J. Paul Getty

topic: Opportunity, Profit, Businessman, Oppurtunity

We don't see profit as a blind instrument.

- Jacqueline Novogratz

topic: Thought Provoking, Blind, Profit

For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.

- James A. Baldwin

topic: Children, Pay, Profit

Man cannot live by profit alone.

- James A. Baldwin

topic: Men, Profit, Live By

Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.

- James Buchan

topic: Profit, Interest, Rate

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

topic: Acquiescence, Carrying On, Profit

Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits.

- Jeremy Grantham

topic: Believe, Profit, Term

Once you privatize something, it becomes a for-profit business.

- Jesse Ventura

topic: Profit

Proving that profit is economically and morally justifiable, rather then the result of exploitation, has been a central preoccupation of neoclassical economists.

- Jim Stanford

source: "Economics For Everyone". Book by Jim Stanford, 2008.

topic: Preoccupation, Results, Profit

Wikipedia is a non-profit. It was either the dumbest thing I ever did or the smartest thing I ever did.

- Jimmy Wales

source: "The Wisdom of One". www.theage.com.au. April 25, 2007.

topic: Wikipedia, Profit, Non Profit

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

topic: Long, Investment, Profit, Rosa

The corporation, like the psychopathic personality it resembles, is programmed to exploit others for profit.

- Joel Bakan

source: Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

topic: Personality, Corporations, Profit, Psychopathic

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

- John Bruton

topic: Europe, Half, 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.]

- John Gower

topic: Risk, Profit, Dare

Things of greatest profit are set forth with least price. Where the wine is neat there needeth no live blush.

- John Lyly

topic: Wine, Profit, Neat

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

topic: Years, Charity, Profit

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

topic: Humanity, Possibility, Profit

Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.

- Joseph A. Schumpeter

topic: Expression, Entrepreneur, Profit, Free Enterprise

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

topic: Wise, Men, Profit, Rattlesnakes

There is, in the heart, the hard-rendering profit. As if we were plucking the leaves from the trees.

- Katy Lederer

source: Katy Lederer (2008). “The Heaven-sent Leaf: Poems”, Boa Editions

topic: Heart, Tree, Profit

By definition startups usually do not turn a profit.

- Kevin Harrington

topic: Definitions, Profit, Turns

A hacker doesnt deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.

- Kevin Mitnick

topic: Data, Hackers, Profit

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

- Lajos Kossuth

source: Lajos Kossuth (1853). “Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman”, p.30

topic: Past, Profit, Exile

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

- Laozi

topic: Greed, Thieves, Profit

Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

- Larry Elder

topic: People, Profit, Private Sector

We make our profits through content and services.

- Lei Jun

topic: Profit

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

- Leon Leonwood Bean

topic: Business, Treats, Profit, Merchandise

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

topic: May, Tvs, Profit

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

topic: Needs, Profit, Stage, American Capitalism

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 Hine

source: Lewis Wickes Hine, John R. Kemp (1986). “Lewis Hine: photographs of child labor in the new South”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

topic: Children, Getting High, Profit, Profitable

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

topic: Numbers, Trying, Profit

You know how to vanquish, Hannibal, but you do not know how to profit from victory.

- Livy

topic: Victory, Vanquish, Profit

Profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis.

- Llewellyn Rockwell

topic: People, Liberty, Profit

Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins.

- Lope de Vega

topic: Treasure, Profit, Goblin, Morning Dew

It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.

- Lou Gerstner

topic: Loss, Technology, Profit, Protocol, Margins

No mass appeal. Ergo no profit. Ergo no use. The current World Credo.

- Lucille Kallen

source: Lucille Kallen (1980). “C.B. Greenfield: the Tanglewood murder”, Simon & Schuster

topic: Use, World, Profit, Credo

Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.

- Ludwig von Mises

topic: Profit

I've made a profit from everything I have done in life.

- Magnus

topic: Done, Made, Profit

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

topic: Damage, Profit, Produce, Tobacco Industry

Short-term can be terminal.

- Mark McCormack

source: Mark H. McCormack (2016). “What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School: Notes from a Street-smart Executive”, p.164, Bantam

topic: Business, Finance, Profit

I don't care if what we do makes a profit; I care whether we get somebody out of a wheelchair.

- Mark Noble

topic: Care, Profit, Wheelchairs

A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.

- Marvin Bower

source: Marvin Bower (1966). “The will to manage: corporate success through programmed management”

topic: People, Principles, Profit, Caliber

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

- Matt Taibbi

topic: Gambling, Fancy, Profit

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 Azria

source: "A Fashionable Life: Max & Lubov Azria" by Marshall Heyman, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 12, 2009.

topic: Thank God, Enough, Profit

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

topic: Rap, Making Money, Profit

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

topic: Baseball, Tradition, Profit

When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.

- Michael McKean

topic: Way, Figure Skating, Profit

Profits are what you make when not working.

- Michael Pare

topic: Profit

Mitt Romney understands the private sector, he understands how profit is created, and he isn't embarrassed by it.

- Michele Bachmann

topic: Profit, Embarrassed, Private Sector

Profit is not an event. It's a habit.

- Mike Michalowicz

source: "Mike Michalowicz: Turning Life Lessons Into Bestselling Business Advice". Interview with Tim Knox, interviewingauthors.com.

topic: Events, Habit, Profit

The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits

- Milton Friedman

topic: Responsibility, Social, Profit

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.

- Moses Mendelssohn

topic: Profit, Theory, Process

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!

- Mother Jones

topic: Children, Cities, Profit, City Hall

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.

- Murray Walker

topic: Gone, Guarantees, Profit, Bad Grades, Bad Hair

For a long time, the for-profit world has told us in the not-for-profit sector to behave more like businesses.

- Nancy Lublin

source: "Our Not-for-Profit Business" by Nancy Lublin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2008.

topic: Long, World, Profit

Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.

- Natalie Merchant

topic: Worry, Be True To Yourself, Profit, Large Companies

Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.

- Nicholas Murray Butler

topic: Succeed, Failing, Profit, Business Plan

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

- Noah Porter

source: Noah Porter (1874). “Books and Reading, Or, What Books Shall I Read and how Shall I Read Them?”, p.13

topic: Pleasure, Profit

Education is not for profit. If you're not in education for profit, it's not going to be a fair critique for education.

- Noam Chomsky

topic: Profit, Critique

So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.

- Norman Mailer

topic: Cancer, Profit, Crisis

We're essentially continuing a system where profits are privatized and...losses socialized,

- Nouriel Roubini

topic: Loss, Profit, Continuing

Grant me profits only, grant me the joy of profit made, and see to it that I enjoy cheating the buyer!

- Ovid

topic: Cheating, Joy, Profit

Food should come from the place of its origin, and stay there. It shouldn't spend its time crisscrossing the globe for the sake of profit.

- Paolo Bacigalupi

source: "The Windup Girl". Book by Paolo Bacigalupi, 2009.

topic: Sake, Should, Profit

Transcendent values like trust and integrity literally translate into revenue, profits and prosperity.

- Patricia Aburdene

source: Patricia Aburdene (2005). “Megatrends Two Thousand and Ten”, Hampton Roads Publishing Company Incorporated

topic: Integrity, Prosperity, Profit

The promise of every product and service is a better life. Profits are the prize for delivering on the promise.

- Patrick Dixon

topic: Promise, Better Life, Profit

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.

- Paul Ormerod

source: "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

topic: Views, Belief, Profit

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

- Paul Polman

source: "Rio+20: Unilever CEO on the need to battle on to save the world" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2012.

topic: Profit, Consumers, Goods

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

- Peter Drucker

topic: Facts, Profit, Profit Maximization

Even genius is tied to profit.

- Pindar

topic: Money, Genius, Profit

We can profit only by our own misfortunes and those of others. The former, though they may be the more beneficial, are also the more painful; let us turn, then, to the latter.

- Polybius

topic: May, Painful, Profit

What profit has not that fable of Christ brought us!

- Pope Leo X

topic: Fables, Christ, Profit

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

- Publilius Syrus

topic: Advice, Profit

There are more ways than one to measure profits and losses.

- Randy Pausch

topic: Loss, Way, Profit, Profit And Loss

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

- Ricardo Semler

topic: Giving, Way, Profit

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

- Ricardo Semler

source: "The doughnut dimension" by Charles Handy, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2005.

topic: Effort, Growth, Profit

Less volatile stocks tend to have negative abnormal profits; more volatile stocks tend to have positive abnormal profits.

- Robert Haugen

source: "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 11, The Negative Payoff to Risk, p. 113, 1999.

topic: Negative, Abnormal, Profit

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

- Robert Orben

topic: Wall, Prophet, Profit

America, the land of the free, is turning itself into the land of the free ride. [U.S. airlines] are operating in protected markets. They are hoovering up public funds and they still can't make a profit.

- Rod Eddington

topic: Land, America, Profit, Land Of The Free

We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.

- Sam Ewing

topic: Wisdom, World, Profit

To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit.

- Sam Farr

topic: Agriculture, Able, Profit

Legitimate profit is good. What's bad is profiteering,

- Shaffi Mather

topic: Profit

... one doesn't really profit from experience; one merely learns to predict the next mistake.

- Shirley Hazzard

source: Shirley Hazzard (2004). “Cliffs of Fall: And Other Stories”, p.13, Macmillan

topic: Mistake, Next, Profit

The way customers relate to brands and how profit is generated has changed so dramatically almost every professional is being challenged to reconsider what they do in order to stay relevant.

- Simon Mainwaring

topic: Order, Way, Profit

The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life.

- Sir John Richard Hicks

source: 1935 Econometrica,'The Theory of Monopoly'.

topic: Quiet, Economics, Profit, Quiet Life, Monopoly Power

We must take the profit out of war.

- Smedley Butler

topic: War, Profit

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

- Sophocles

topic: Dirty, Men, Profit

Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits.

- Stephen Young

source: Stephen Young (2003). “Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest with the Public Good”, p.87, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

topic: Morality, Behavior, Profit, Antimatter

We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good.

- Steve Ballmer

topic: Years, Lasts, Profit, Last Five Years

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

- Steve Eisman

source: "Steve Eisman’s Next Big Short: For-Profit Colleges" by Andy Kroll, www.motherjones.com. May 27, 2010.

topic: Tasks, Profit, Equal, Proven

A Movie That Costs Only $1.6 Million Doesn't Have to Be a Cultural Event to Turn a Profit.

- Steven Soderbergh

topic: Cost, Events, Profit

Be helpful - even if there's no immediate profit in it.

- Susan Ward

topic: Educational, Helpful, Profit

Writers in a profit making economy are an exploitable commodity whose works are products to be marketed, and are so judged and handled.

- Tillie Olsen

topic: Commodity, Economy, Profit

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

- Tony Hsieh

topic: Great Business, Good Business, Profit

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

- W. Edwards Deming

topic: Inspirational, Business, Profit, Customer Experience, Inspirational Customer Service

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

- Wally Lamb

topic: Denial, Driven, Profit

I liked the results of the profits in the markets.

- Walter Schloss

topic: Investing, Profit, Results

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

- Walter Ulbricht

topic: Needs, Principles, Profit

Look for companies with high profit margins.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Looks, Investing, Profit, Profit Margin

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

- William E. Gladstone

topic: Dream, Time Management, Profit, Sanguine

Amateurs go broke taking large losses, professionals go broke taking small profits.

- William Eckhardt

topic: Loss, Broke, Profit

America can no longer afford to get the Nobel Prizes while our competitors get the profits.

- William J. Clinton

source: Source: www.yesmagazine.org

topic: America, Profit, Nobel

Profit is what happens when you do everything else right.

- Yvon Chouinard

topic: Profit

At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'.

- Yvon Chouinard

topic: Goal, Profit, Masters, Zen Master, Patagonia

Never let making a profit stand in the way of doing the right thing.

- George W. Jenkins

topic: Way, Profit, Doing The Right Thing

Profits are part of the mechanism by which society decides what it wants to see produced.

- Henry Wallich

topic: Business, Want, Profit, Mechanism

The ultimate in wisdom is to live in the present, plan for the future and profit from the past.

- Jacob Braude

topic: Past, Live In The Present, Profit

The key word in profiteering is profit.

- Martin Shkreli

topic: Keys, Profit

Perhaps profit isn't everything, but nothing works without profit. Profit is the basis for independent journalism.

- Mathias Dopfner

topic: Independent, Journalism, Profit

It's completely legitimate for a company to continue striving for growth and higher profits. But business activities have to be conducted in a sustainable manner.

- Paul Achleitner

topic: Growth, Strive, Profit

Unfortunately, Congress is protecting the profits of those opposed to protecting the planet.

- Ray Metcalfe

topic: Congress, Profit, Planets

Well if you've got information about a company, or you believe that a company is undervalued, you can go out and buy their stock and you can make some profit on it.

- Robert F. Engle

topic: Believe, Information, Profit, Undervalued

Fearlessness begets happiness, which begets creativity, which begets innovation, which begets profits.

- Ben Chestnut

source: Twitter post from May 26, 2015

topic: Creativity, Innovation, Profit, Begets

You know what's a savvy business move? Making a profit.

- Cenk Uygur

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Moving, Profit, Savvy

Wars are popular. Contractors make profits; the aristocracy glean honour.

- Ramsay MacDonald

topic: War, Aristocracy, Profit, Contractor

You know, my background, I was at a non-profit for years.

- Elizabeth Emken

source: "Early Start with John Berman and Zoraida Sambolin". www.cnn.com. August 31, 2012.

topic: Years, Profit, Backgrounds, Non Profit

Profits are the ultimate measure of how efficiently we provide customers with the best products for their needs. Profits are required to survive and grow.

- Henry Ford II

topic: Needs, Profit, Grows

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.

- John Pugsley

topic: Goal, Size, Profit

The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.

- Charles Caleb Colton

source: Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

topic: Wisdom, Next, Profit

A market system is not a profit system, it's a profit-and-loss system.

- Charles Koch

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Loss, Profit, Profit And Loss

When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.

- Adam Smith

source: Adam Smith (2010). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.335, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Errors, Ordinary, Profit

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.

- Paul Haggis

topic: Years, Enough, Profit, Stock Price

Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.

- Aesop

source: Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.35, Aesop

topic: Hurt, Evil, Profit

Το know how to profit by good advice, requires nearly as much ability as to know how to act for one'self.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

source: "Maximes Et Réflexions Morales".

topic: Self, Advice, Profit

Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity

- Peter Drucker

topic: Purpose, Tests, Profit, Validity

We can ill afford to have activities conducted as "non-profit," that is, as activities that devour capital rather than form it, if they can be organized as activities that form capital, as activities that make a profit.

- Peter Drucker

source: Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.227, Routledge

topic: Form, Profit, Ill, Non Profit

Profit is not a cause but a result-

- Peter Drucker

source: Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.65, Routledge

topic: Causes, Results, Profit

No one ever went broke by taking a profit.

- Jesse Lauriston Livermore

topic: Broke, Profit

I know transplanted human worth will bloom to profit otherwhere.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

source: Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.96, Broadview Press

topic: Profit, Humans, Knows

It was my duty to have loved the highest; It surely was my profit had I known: It would have been my pleasure had I seen. We needs must love the highest when we see it, Not Lancelot, nor another.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

source: 'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Guinevere' (1859) l. 652

topic: Needs, Pleasure, Profit, Lancelot

I have found that leadership is leadership is leadership. It applies whether you are in government or in corporate life or in non-profit life.

- Colin Powell

source: Source: www.egonzehnder.com

topic: Government, Found, Profit, Non Profit

If one is guided by profit in one's actions, one will incur much ill will.

- Confucius

source: Confucius (1992). “Confucius: The Analects”

topic: Ill Will, Action, Profit

The proper man understands equity, the small man profits.

- Confucius

source: Confucius (1956). “Confucian analects”, Commodius Vicus

topic: Education, Men, Profit, Small Man

Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

topic: Law, Goes On, Profit

In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.90, New Directions Publishing

topic: Profit, Blunders, Committed

When profit is unshared, it's less likely to grow greater.

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Profit, Grows, Greater

The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious. [Lat., Cui homini dii propitii sunt aliquid objiciunt lucri.]

- Plautus

topic: Men, Giving, Profit

There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it. [Non enim potest quaestus consistere, si eum sumptus superat.]

- Plautus

topic: Business, Profit, Exceed

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

- Pliny the Elder

topic: Profit, Folly, Plans

It is of no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

- Publilius Syrus

topic: Action, Neglect, Profit

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

- Publilius Syrus

source: "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 629, 1856.

topic: Doe, Sage, Profit, Despicable

Change amuses the mind, but rarely profits.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Mind, Profit

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Change, Mind, Profit

Honour and profit lie not in one sacke. [Honour and profit lie not in one sack.]

- George Herbert

topic: Lying, Profit, Honour

Honour without profit is a ring on the finger.

- George Herbert

source: George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.251

topic: Profit, Fingers, Rings

No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.

- George Herbert

source: George Herbert (1861). “The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel”, p.267

topic: Profit, Honour

I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.

- Andre Gide

topic: Hate, Hatred, Profit

Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.

- Andre Gide

source: "The Immoralist". Book by André Gide. Translated by R. Howard, 1902.

topic: Action, Profit, Motive

There are too few rich and too few profits.

- Margaret Thatcher

source: Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

topic: Rich, Profit

Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one’s self without thought of profit.

- Marguerite Yourcenar

topic: Self, Doe, Profit

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.

- John Bunyan

source: John Bunyan (2017). “Pilgrim's Progress (Illustrated Edition)”, p.78, Whitaker House

topic: Care, Speak, Profit, Pilgrims Progress

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

- Marilyn vos Savant

topic: Causes, Donation, Profit