Profit Quotes · Page 25

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

— Tony Hsieh

You ought to be able to make a nice profit and also do something to change the world.

— John Paul DeJoria

We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.

— Kofi Annan

Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the…

— Voltaire

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are…

— Henry Miller

To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants.

— Peter Stuyvesant

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

— Leon Leonwood Bean

Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is…

— Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

We are fighting a Labour Party whose avowed enemy is capitalist bosses, whose instinct is to see income as a common pool…

— Liz Truss

Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit…

— Christiane Amanpour

Judge yourself and beware of passing judgement on others. In judging others we expend our energy to no purpose; we are often…

— Thomas a Kempis

The commendable conduct of man is shown by his discriminate treatment of merits and sympathetic regard for pleasure and pain, profit and…

— Dayananda Saraswati

Man does work for profit in order to enjoy pain; but in a positive sense, he works to enjoy the excitement and…

— Frederick Herzberg

I think right now the jury is out on where and how much profit is available in the consumer electronics industry, because…

— Anonymous

This is business: they don't care about your lyrics; The better you sell, the better future for their children. Controversy sells, so…

— Cormega

We sold sugar with the specific conditions established by American buyers, which in turn dominated the internal market and production in Cuba.…

— Che Guevara

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had…

— Lou Holtz

When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money.…

— Tom Petty

We want to encourage investors to target businesses that focus on achieving more than just profits - by placing their money into…

— Brad Duguid

We welcome private investment, but any company or national firm will be a partner of a venture where the result will go…

— Evo Morales

The role of business is to provide products and services that make people's live better - while using fewer resources - and…

— Charles Koch

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. The successful man will profit from…

— Dale Carnegie

IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money…

— Jack Ma

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

— Paolo Bacigalupi

An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.

— Aristophanes

I plan to publicize my breakups and profit from them like other celebrities.

— Trixie Mattel

I think canceling a game that is making a profit, along with destroying jobs and an online community, is entirely unethical.

— Mercedes Lackey

Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.

— Boris Johnson

Gawker was a site built to destroy lives. Its mission was to discover the worst moment in a person's life - and…

— Ben Domenech

I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.

— Walt Disney

A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget.

— John F. Kennedy

To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.

— Akio Morita

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

— Michele Bachmann

The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.

— James Gould Cozzens

War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people…

— Smedley Butler

We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment.

— Eden Phillpotts

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

— Sam Ewing

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

— Ramsay MacDonald