Profit famous quotes

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

#Profit #Jimmy

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

#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

#Hard Work #Use #Profit

I never lost money by turning a profit.
-- Bernard Baruch

#Lost #Profit

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

#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

#Umpires #Giving #Profit

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

#Wrecks #Wreckage #Profit

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

#Band #Profit #Members

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

#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

#People #Profit #Function

A profit is not without honor save in Boston.
-- Carolyn Wells

#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

#Believe #Investment #Profit

Profit per se is not my motive.
-- Chris Hughes

#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

#America #People #Profit

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

#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

#Loss #Ships #Profit

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

#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

#Philosophy #Knowledge #Profit

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

#Wages #Profit #Farmers

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

#Fall #Profit #Labour

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

#Wages #Way #Profit

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

#Differences #Variation #Profit

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

#Integrity #Lines #Profit

Profit is the celebration of service.
-- Denis Waitley

#Celebration #Profit

You do not require an invitation to make profits.
-- Dhirubhai Ambani

#Profit #Invitations

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

#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

#Roots #Incentives #Profit

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

#Diagnosis #Way #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

#Retirement #Profit #Lost

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

#Mistake #Divine #Profit

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

#Management #Behavior #Profit

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

#Forget #Profit #Communes

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

#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

#Culture #Valleys #Profit

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

#Names #Plunder #Profit

I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.
-- Felix Rohatyn

#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

#Self #Advice #Profit

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.
-- Frederic Bastiat

#Profit

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

#Banking #Today #Profit

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

#Ignorance #Trouble #Profit

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

#Profit #Remembered

The greatest human achievements have never been for profit.
-- H. P. Lovecraft

#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

#Wish #May #Profit

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

#Track #Records #Profit

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

#Race #Profit #Insidious

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

#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

#Ships #Profit #Admire

Poets wish to profit or to please.
-- Horace

#Wish #Poet #Profit

He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.
-- Iain Pears

#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

#Fool #Economy #Profit

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

#Opportunity #Profit #Businessman

We don't see profit as a blind instrument.
-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Thought Provoking #Blind #Profit

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

#Children #Pay #Profit

Man cannot live by profit alone.
-- James A. Baldwin

#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

#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

#Acquiescence #Carrying On #Profit

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

#Believe #Profit #Term

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

#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

#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

#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

#Long #Investment #Profit

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

#Personality #Corporations #Profit

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

#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

#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

#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

#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

#Humanity #Possibility #Profit

Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.
-- Joseph A. Schumpeter

#Expression #Entrepreneur #Profit

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

#Wise #Men #Profit

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

#Heart #Tree #Profit

By definition startups usually do not turn a profit.
-- Kevin Harrington

#Definitions #Profit #Turns

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

#Data #Hackers #Profit

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

#Past #Profit #Exile

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

#Greed #Thieves #Profit

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

#People #Profit #Private Sector

We make our profits through content and services.
-- Lei Jun

#Profit

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

#Business #Treats #Profit

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

#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

#Needs #Profit #Stage

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

#Children #Getting High #Profit

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

#Numbers #Trying #Profit

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

#Victory #Vanquish #Profit

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

#People #Liberty #Profit

Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins.
-- Lope de Vega

#Treasure #Profit #Goblin

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

#Loss #Technology #Profit

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

#Use #World #Profit

Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
-- Ludwig von Mises

#Profit

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

#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

#Damage #Profit #Produce

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

#Self #Doe #Profit

Short-term can be terminal.
-- Mark McCormack

#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

#Care #Profit #Wheelchairs

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

#People #Principles #Profit

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

#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

#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

#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

#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

#Way #Figure Skating #Profit

Profits are what you make when not working.
-- Michael Pare

#Profit

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

#Profit #Embarrassed #Private Sector