Profits Quotes
385 Profits quotes by 304 unique authors
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The message from Wal-Mart today to the rest of the business community is there need not be any conflict between the environment and the economy.…
— Al Gore
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The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid it; and it…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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The profit motive is not only fundamental to our ability to reward shareholders and pay employees; it's fundamental to excellent journalism. Far from corrupting the…
— Lachlan Murdoch
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If you buy all the stocks selling at or below two times earnings, you will lose money on half of them because instead of making…
— John Templeton
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You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
— Denis Waitley
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These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds…
— Samuel Johnson
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While many have been left behind by Part D, there is a clear winner: the drug industry. Independent analysts predict that Part D will increase…
— Louise Slaughter
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When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.
— Warren Buffett
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Good profits simply are not inconsistent with good behavior.
— Warren Buffett
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If you didn't auction the [CO2] permits, it would represent the largest corporate welfare program that has ever been enacted in the history of the…
— Peter R. Orszag
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This morning, prompted by increasing concerns about terrorism, oil prices reached a record high as the cost of a barrel of crude is a whopping…
— Jon Stewart
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As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick;…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss…
— Lewis Carroll
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A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others.
— Joseph Collins
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The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life.
— Sir John Richard Hicks
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The danger of tautological propositions is considerable in discussions of the concept of normal profits. Because supernormal profits seem to invite newcomers to an industry…
— Fritz Machlup
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For equity markets, the combination of low interest rates, strong economic growth and low inflation has proved very beneficial, with global share markets rising solidly…
— Ian Macfarlane
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Failing to warn the citizens of a looming weapon of mass destruction- and that's what global warming is- in order to protect oil company profits,…
— Bill Maher
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Businesses just want to increase their profits; it's up to the government to make sure they distribute enough of those profits so workers have the…
— Jose Mujica
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Growth is the mantra of our society because the economy can't remain healthy without growth.Impregnable monopolies aside (and these are few), profits are both the…
— Robert Heilbroner
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In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before…
— Pope Francis
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The economic expansion that began in 2001, while it has been great for corporate profits, has yet to produce any significant gains for ordinary working…
— Paul Krugman
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History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Passive commerce . . . should thus . . . [compel us] to content ourselves with the first price of our commodities, and to see…
— Alexander Hamilton
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In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life but…
— James C. Collins
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