Profit Quotes · Page 24

It's no surprise companies that quickly grow in value attract those who may want to also profit from the hard work of…

— Evan Spiegel

We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it.

— Tim Cook

I started doing the star turn and making a profit off it. Now I'm kind of one of them.

— David Spade

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

— Lou Gerstner

Knowledge born from actual experience is the answer to why one profits; lack of it is the reason one loses

— Gerald M. Loeb

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

— Richard Bach

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

— Paddy Chayefsky

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

I don't care if it's five dead cops, a dead black citizen in Minnesota or in Louisiana, there are people trying to…

— Rush Limbaugh

He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises…

— Edmund Burke

The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade…

— Lincoln Steffens

America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization…

— Alice Walker

I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate…

— Heather O'Neill

At long as a stock is acting right, and the market is right, do not be in a hurry to take profits.…

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

I think I have the best house in the world. I thank God to have it. I thank God that I finished…

— Max Azria

“Businesses are uniquely capable of creating social value and solving social problems - they have this wonderful fuel called the profit motive.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

Already nature is serving all those uses which science slowly derives on a much higher and grander scale to him that will…

— Henry David Thoreau

Some sleep too much...there must be an excellent reason for the injunction to retire and arise early. ...You will profit by this…

— Joe J. Christensen

My percentage of winners is only about 50/50, because I cut my losers very quickly. The maximum loss I allow is 7%,…

— David Ryan

I'm not pro-war. But I think war has been the dominant condition of humankind, and peace has been the anomaly - certainly…

— Philip Gourevitch

“Privilege implies exclusion from privilege, just as advantage implies disadvantage," Celine went on. "In the same mathematically reciprocal way, profit implies loss.…

— Robert Anton Wilson

But I am mistaken in speaking of a Christian republic; the terms are mutually exclusive. Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We must recover the whole sense of gift, of gratuitousness, of solidarity. Rampant capitalism has taught the logic of profit at all…

— Pope Francis

If bankers can push the loans and make more profits for the bank, they get paid higher bonuses. They often also get…

— Michael Hudson

Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.

— Tom Scholz

For small business men and women, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.

— Tony Abbott

Not everybody's actions are based on ideas. Some people's actions are based on profit.

— Pavel Durov

Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black…

— Angela Davis

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise…

— Quintilian

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

— Anonymous

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

— Nancy Lublin

My dream is to make the world sound better, but the only way to do that is to let businesses see that…

— Julian Treasure

Entrepreneurs believe that profit is what matters most in a new enterprise. But profit is secondary. Cash flow matters most.

— Peter Drucker

I want to do and I'm giving all the profits to charity, is to teach people to meditate. All it takes is…

— Russell Simmons

Profit or loss is not guaranteed. That depends on the consumer and depends on the product. That's a risk that business people…

— Mukesh Ambani

Beethoven and Michelangelo, who sold their artworks for profit, were entrepreneurs and capitalists.

— Tyler Cowen

If you suffer [death] in the way of God, it will be your profit in this world, and your reward in the…

— Hassan al-Banna

The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth.

— Robert Pollin

Sex is currency. What's the use of being beautiful if you can't profit from it?

— Lili St. Cyr

What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with…

— Saib Tabrizi