Profit Quotes

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.

Our position should not be on how to eliminate the competition at all expenses, but we should focus on what we're going to do in order to make sure that Americans turn to the road of prosperity with the trajectory of capitalism, because making a profit is not an evil.

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

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

What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.

Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

I think anyone who uses the web is smart and will profit.

There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.

Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

By definition startups usually do not turn a profit.

Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can wreak havoc on their quality of life and economic viability. When natural disasters strike, we must do all we can to assist the backbone of our economy.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

Technology isn't the enemy, it is our ally, but only if we adopt a new model that puts people before profit. I realize that we seem far from that model, but I have seen it in action and it is a beautiful thing. So I'm not willing to give up yet. Hope is the last thing to die.

Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

I never lost money by turning a profit.

Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.

I think that George Lucas' 'Star Wars' films are fantastic. What he's done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films and poured it into developing digital sound and surround sound, which we are using today.

All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.