Profit Quotes - Page 9

More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them.

The way customers relate to brands and how profit is generated has changed so dramatically almost every professional is being challenged to reconsider what they do in order to stay relevant.

The future of profit is purpose.

... one doesn't really profit from experience; one merely learns to predict the next mistake.

Legitimate profit is good. What's bad is profiteering.

Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

Profitability is where the country grows and everybody rises up with it.

Everybody in life is pursuing money: left, right, charity, nonprofits, everybody's pursuing money. Everybody wants a raise. Everybody wants to improve their standard of living. Everybody wants to be rich, and especially those that go to Washington.

Wall Street is where prophets tell us what will happen and profits tell us what did happen.

Less volatile stocks tend to have negative abnormal profits; more volatile stocks tend to have positive abnormal profits.

Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.

All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

Unfortunately, Congress is protecting the profits of those opposed to protecting the planet.

He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.

There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it. [Non enim potest quaestus consistere, si eum sumptus superat.]

The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious. [Lat., Cui homini dii propitii sunt aliquid objiciunt lucri.]

Even genius is tied to profit.

Profit is not a cause but a result-

We can ill afford to have activities conducted as "non-profit," that is, as activities that devour capital rather than form it, if they can be organized as activities that form capital, as activities that make a profit.

The second part of the New Right's policy package has been the belief that free-market solutions are always best. It is this latter view which is profoundly mistaken. Markets and profits are crucial, but the pure free-market model itself is deeply flawed.

There's something that's so basically corrupt about any system in which a good and fair profit is not enough. There has to be more, every year, every quarter, because your stock price has to rise.

It's completely legitimate for a company to continue striving for growth and higher profits. But business activities have to be conducted in a sustainable manner.

Transcendent values like trust and integrity literally translate into revenue, profits and prosperity.

Food should come from the place of its origin, and stay there. It shouldn't spend its time crisscrossing the globe for the sake of profit.