Profit Quotes · Page 17

I did a show called 'Profit' a while back, and I based some of the work on some people that were in…

— Adrian Pasdar

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

— John Lyly

The world's most innovative companies are not corporations driven by profit, but movements driven by a cause.

— Alexander Den Heijer

Maybe that's because guns are sold at a profit, while schools are provided by the government.

— David Boaz

“When you nationalize the expenditures but privatize the revenue, everything is profit.”

— Tanya Thompson

Functional goods sold en masse earn a good return but breakthrough profits come from satisfying emotional needs.

— Michael J. Silverstein

My dream investment would be one where I put the least amount of money in but make the most amount of profit.

— Touker Suleyman

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

— Clarence Darrow

“If everyone at home is healthy, then understand that there is a profit. At that time, even if there is a loss…

— Dada Bhagwan

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…

— Herbert Newton Casson

It is not the government's purpose to make a profit the way a company does, because a company doesn't have to give…

— Jean Chretien

The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Overseas investors have a choice. They can buy property, equities, bonds, or a host of other assets either in the United Kingdom…

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

Corporations, government entities and media conglomerates-fear the ideology of an animal liberationist could catch hold and topple them from their golden thrones,…

— Charlotte Laws

The primary goal of publishing general fiction and non-fiction was never profit - though profit was essential to stay in the game.…

— Jason Epstein

War provides jobs, profits, political payoffs, research funds, and forms of political and economic power that reach into every aspect of society.

— Henry Giroux

Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such…

— Audre Lorde

The cross is the foundation of the Bible: If you have not yet found out that Christ crucified is the foundation of…

— J. C. Ryle

With joint-stock corporations, investors can place bets on the success of many different companies, without having to play a central management role…

— Jim Stanford

And maybe the cereal makers by and large have learned to be less crazy about fighting for market share-because if you get…

— Charlie Munger

In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I…

— Cornel West

All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot…

— Mark Twain

In 2013 Citigroup had profits of $6.4 billion in the United States. They paid no federal income tax and, in fact, received…

— Bernie Sanders

We are so accustomed to the miracle of private enterprise that we habitually take it for granted. But how does private industry…

— Henry Hazlitt

Business success isn't just a selfish aim. Profits spread beyond those who make them and bring jobs and prosperity.

— Margaret Thatcher

Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.

— Jacques Amyot

There is no reason why capitalists and entrepreneurs should be ashamed of earning profits.

— Ludwig von Mises

“The profit was five, split evenly between the two of us, which meant that my fair share was three. (2.5 rounded off is 3.)”

— Jarod Kintz

If the small government concept grows, we have fewer dollars leaving our pockets, we have more folks motivated to make a profit.

— Tim Scott

When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.

— Anonymous

I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision.

— James Dyson

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

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

— Jeremy Grantham

In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“If you don’t laugh reading this book I’ll eat my pocket protector. Wait, did I just admit I had a pocket protector?”

— Nicole Fende

History is littered with people who came up with great ideas and saw others profit from them. You need to make sure…

— Joey Reiman

You have forgotten the One who doesn't care about ownership, who doesn't try to turn a profit from every human exchange.

— Anonymous

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

— Winston Churchill

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

— Jacob Braude

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

— Andre Gide