Profit Quotes · Page 28

Under perfect competition, in the long run no company makes an economic profit.

— Peter Thiel

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits

— John F. Kennedy

In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.

— Adam McKay

The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.

— William Jennings Bryan

A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to…

— Aristotle

We know that BP cuts safety corners, takes risks, and is unconcerned about anything other than their own profit.

— Robert Greenwald

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

— Marilyn vos Savant

There is very little difference between speculation and investment. The only difference is basically that investments are successful speculations because if you…

— George Soros

Instead of hoping he must fear and instead of fearing he must hope. He must fear that his loss may develop into…

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

If I give you the right conditions to work, and I put you in a beautiful place, where you feel a little…

— Brunello Cucinelli

The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must…

— Moses Mendelssohn

...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention…

— Noam Chomsky

They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because they're working on…

— Bruce Vilanch

Increasingly, I'm inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a…

— Ethan Zuckerman

When people are against profits they're against business; when they're against business, they're against employment; when they're against employment, it's not surprising…

— Richard J. Needham

The status quo is a very powerful opiate and when you have a system that seems to be working and producing profits…

— Ray Anderson

Times are completely different now. If you're a brand new artist with a record you want to release to the masses, I…

— Ashanti

A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget…As the national income grows, the federal…

— John F. Kennedy

A lot of people have said a lot of great things about Steve Jobs. And for good reason: he built the world's…

— Kevin O'Leary

The easiest thing to do is to rag on the media, because it isn't doing a very good job right now. It…

— Tom Hanks

We've got to establish a Socialist economic structure that will limit private profit-oriented businesses. Whether the transition is peaceful depends on the…

— Jane Fonda

I just think you've created an industry now, where you create the situation where very much you've created an incentive for people…

— Marco Rubio

Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from…

— Pablo Picasso

Profit maximization is the murderous strategy of global corporation hierarchies

— Jean Ziegler

The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)

— Confucius

The workers should take over the factories, and shut down Boeing’s profit-making machine,

— Kshama Sawant

It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Frederick Soddy

I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.

— Adam Braun

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

— Harvey Weinstein

Perhaps my number one rule is: Don't try to make a profit on a bad trade, just try to find the best…

— Linda Bradford Raschke

Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity.

— Peter Drucker

If there is excitement in their lives, it is contained in the figures on the profit and loss sheet. What an indictment.

— Anita Roddick

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

— George Herbert

I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first.

— Fujio Mitarai

No offense but I don't relish being someone's science experiment. Been there, done that, and sold the T-shirt for profit. (Sebastian)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or…

— Billy Graham

I don't get money from the vitamins that I make. My after tax profits go to a foundation that supports integrative medicine.

— Andrew Weil

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

— Winston Churchill