Quotes About Profits

The establishment people tell us that if the workers wanted to share the profits, it was called communism. When management wants to share profits, it's called a bonus.

Most accountants will tell you the majority of small businesses run as an S Corporation.

We need people with foresight who are willing to make films with smaller budgets and accept smaller profits.

If you are focused on profits right out of the gate, you're gonna have the smallest profitable business that has ever been seen.

Much of the media under capitalism avoid difficult, controversial or innovative work because it is bad for profits. Instead, they settle for banality, sensationalism and gut prejudice.

The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits,' said Milton Friedman back in 1970, and the mainstream business world willingly believed him.

Have you heard of the Faustian Bargain? It means that the top corporate money-makers push for more people, production, consumption and profits to fund their lavish lifestyles today—with no concern for the future. Yet, the future gallops toward humanity at breakneck speed.

LLC profits and losses flow through the entity and may be freely allocated without regard to ownership percentages.

We need to expose the motives of our political leaders, point out their connections to corporate power, show how huge profits are being made out of death and suffering.

Some big pharmaceutical companies have engaged in dirty tricks to extend their patents, holding monopolies on certain drugs to pad their profits at consumers' expense.

Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning.

What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in America last year made $1.1 trillion.

It's time to permanently lower America's tax gate so that the $2 trillion in stranded U.S. profits can flow back into America to be invested in new jobs, research and growth.

Automation is great for profits, but it's a real potential trouble area for society.

Every regulatory speech on derivatives takes a bow to their hedging 'benefits.' Less publicly, regulators pay their respects to derivative profits, a blessed relief from the banks' troubled loans to less-developed countries, highly leveraged companies, and real estate swingers.

When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.

Americans mythologize competition and credit it with saving us from socialist bread lines. Actually, capitalism and competition are opposites. Capitalism is premised on the accumulation of capital, but under perfect competition, all profits get competed away.

There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses.

CEOs who boldly lean into fulfilling the dual mandate of earning profits and providing societal benefits will find a receptive public.

But I remember we sold nearly 18,000 records in one day.

Peck and Peck paid us $100,000 per year to put out a Jackie Coogan line of clothes. Millions and millions of caps were sold.

We oppose any pipeline whose sole purpose is to export bitumen from Canada to make profits in other countries.

I already knew the incredible profits in chemotherapy, and how those profits led to an insidious push for that treatment: when patients suggested another approach, physicians could be condescending, dismissing alternatives as risky, unproven, even quackery.

The recent spate of disasters has translated into such spectacular profits that many people around the world have come to the same conclusion: the rich and powerful must be deliberately causing the catastrophes so that they can exploit them.