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Quotes About Profits

It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
But you have to take some of those assets off the table to reduce your exposure to risk and make certain that you keep some of the gains or profits you've made.
~ Anthony Robbins
And so what happens over and over again is the profits win and the investor seeking returns loses.
~ Anthony Robbins
The problem is that the managers of the mutual funds make more money when they gather huge piles of assets and charge high fees. The high fees are in direct conflict with the goal of producing high returns. And so what happens over and over again is the profits win and the investor seeking returns loses. There
~ Anthony Robbins
government of the profits, by the profits, for the profits.
~ Sinclair Lewis
In a Consciously Constructive Revolutionary Workplace, the focus is on stakeholders, People, Planet AND profits, not just the shareholder's greed of more profits.
~ Tony Dovale
Our food chain is in crisis. Big agribusiness has made profits more important than your health—more important than the environment—more important than your right to know how your food is produced. But beneath the surface, a revolution is growing.
~ John Robbins
Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a employee. Profits make you a fortune
~ John Roth
There is a hypothetical maximization of income, constrained by individuals and of cost constrained profits of firms. Keynesean
~ John Roth
As a quasi-state-owned enterprise, Rosatom enjoyed advantages that its Western competitors did not: its expenditures were subsidized, its profits were privatized, and its losses were socialized.
~ John Solomon
Marketingnomics satisfying customer needs by placing a company's profits above politically popular policies.
~ John Tantillo
By 2002, six years after its release, Purdue was selling almost $1.5 billion of the drug each year—eight times the volume the company had projected. The single drug represented 80 percent of Purdue's net sales. It was the biggest-selling brand-name controlled substance on the market. The once sleepy drugmaker was now a powerhouse, and it wasn't about to concede that its star product had a major flaw. OxyContin's
~ John Temple
the clinic was inhaling $100,000 a day. A day.
~ John Temple
American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
~ Barry Goldwater
When it comes to the business side of it, as much as you might hate it, the reality is that you give the record company a sort of ownership of your songs, so you've got to make sure you're getting everything you can out of it now, because if you're not, then who is?
~ Paolo Nutini
No man willingly permits the thief to rob his bins of grain. Nor does any man willingly permit an enemy to drive away his customers and rob him of his profits. When once I did recognize that such acts as these my enemy was committing, with determination I conquered him. So must every man master his own spirit of procrastination before he can expect to share in the rich treasures of Babylon. What
~ George S. Clason
We are beginning to see a fundamental outrage at the whole interconnected mess of a system: at energy companies who record massive profits, yet allow pensioners to struggle to stay warm in winter; at CEOs who can earn up to a 1,000 times the salary of their average worker; and soon, any day now, at those politicians who allowed this to happen.
~ Noreena Hertz
Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don't have as much to sell. Your workers don't want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That's inflation.
~ W. Edwards Deming
Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
~ Angela Davis
Social Security got passed because John D. Rockefeller was sick of having to take money out of his profits to pay for his workers' pension funds. Why do that, when you can just let the government take money from the workers?
~ Aaron Swartz
Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan.
~ Michael Moore
Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.
~ Ray Davies
During the period of capital moving from one employment to another, the profits on that to which capital is flowing will be relatively high, but will continue so no longer than till the requisite capital is obtained.
~ David Ricardo
To be honest, the real money is in merchandising and performances.
~ Cam'ron