Investing Quote by Daron Acemoğlu

The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.

— Edward Norton

Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!

— Peter Drucker

“Our aim was not to create profit, but jobs,' Sanchez Gordillo explained to me. This philosophy runs directly counter to the late-capitalist emphasis on…

— Dan Hancox

“What if he had taken full advantage of the tax-advantaged benefit from the time he was first employed? Today he would be a millionaire.…

— Thomas J. Stanley

If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as "social gains", if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as "selfish greed".

— Ayn Rand

“Being a successful businessman is not just about making profits, it's about making a positive impact on people's lives.”

— Shubham Shukla

“In practice nobody cares whether work is useful or useless, productive or parasitic; the sole thing demanded is that it shall be profitable.”

— George Orwell

Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath a trade…

— Benjamin Franklin

“Bad business should be done without guilt if it is a source of income.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“By rendering their enterprises profitable, the consumers shift control of the factors of production into the hands of those businessmen who serve them best.…

— Ludwig von Mises

The better an entrepreneur succeeds, the more is he vilified and themore is he soaked by taxation.

— Ludwig von Mises

“The businessman who wishes to gain a market by throttling a superior competitor, the worker who wants a share of his employer's wealth, the…

— Ayn Rand