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Quotes About Profits

Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous.
~ Steven Spielberg
The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
~ William Jennings Bryan
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.
~ Howard Zinn, Just War
Because the NHS budget covers everybody, the money saved on one patient can be used to treat another. Declining to operate on a sick grandmother means there is more money available to treat sick children. Accordingly, protests about denied coverage tend to be muted. In the U.S. system, that trade-off doesn't apply; if an American insurance company refuses to pay $36,000 for Herceptin for one of its clients, the money saved is likely used to enhance profits.
~ T.R. Reid
Magellan taxable investors have a Hobson's choice. They must continue to pay high annual income and capital gains taxes by holding a tax-inefficient and underperforming fund—or pay a capital gains tax on all past profits, should they decide to exchange to another fund.
~ Taylor Larimore
The only things I make money on are speeches and books.
~ Brandon Stanton
The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive.
~ Lee Child
The reason why [the medical community] is reluctant to talk about it is because there's such a huge business in pharmaceuticals.
~ Jenny McCarthy
There were no cheques; instructions were given orally and written in the bank's books. There was no interest; depositors were given discrezione (in proportion to the annual profits of the firm) to compensate them for risking their money.33
~ Niall Ferguson
For the price of a few battleships, we could give you a healthy nation. We have the knowledge, the skill, the material resources; but those in power prefer to use them for destroying their competitors and safeguarding their own profits.
~ Nicholas Blake
America was in full swing now, all the papers said so, and people were rushing forward, leaving behind the horrors of war. She understood the reasons, but they were rushing, like Lon, toward long hours and profits, neglecting the things that brought beauty to the world.
~ Nicholas Sparks
The American multinational companies made millions and millions of dollars from globalization.
~ Jack Ma
We haven't made money in NASCAR in a long time.
~ Robby Gordon
Socialism, in other words, would not be possible until capitalism had exhausted its ability to expand and increase profits. That the end is coming is hard now to dispute, although one would be foolish to predict when. Global capitalism, in its final iteration, may replicate China's totalitarian capitalism, a brutal system sustained by severe repression where workers are modern-day serfs.
~ Chris Hedges
Within four years of the iPhone's launch, Apple was making over 60 percent of all the world's profits from smartphone sales, crushing rivals like Nokia and BlackBerry and leaving East Asian smartphone makers to compete in the low-margin market for cheap phones.
~ Chris Miller
Making profits and going public… are not the priority" at YMTC, one executive told the Nikkei Asia newspaper. Instead, the company's focused on "building the country's own chips and realizing the Chinese dream.
~ Chris Miller
What they wanted from a hog was all the profits that could be got out of him; and that was what they wanted from the workingman, and also that was what they wanted from the public. What the hog thought of it, and what he suffered, were not considered; and no more was it with labor, and no more with the purchaser of meat.
~ Upton Sinclair
What these efficient gentlemen had done was to devise an arrangement whereby the profits of the world's industry flowed to them, automatically and inevitably; and what they meant by peace was that this system was to continue and that nobody should ever challenge or disturb it. What Robbie meant by order was that the exploiters of the different nations should confer and work out a fair division of the spoils.
~ Upton Sinclair
The partnership culture gave way to a bonus culture, in which employees felt free to take huge risks with other people's money in order to generate revenue and big bonuses. Risk management on Wall Street [became] a farce, with risk managers being steamrolled by bankers, traders, and executives focused nearly exclusively on maximizing annual profits—and the size of their annual bonuses.
~ Kurt Andersen
Always bear in mind that stock market will only grow up when people are not investing in shares. This is done to attract retail investors and making them feel that they have missed the train and the day investors board on the train, it will start going on downward slope with all profits going into the pocket of company owners with big commission to brokers
~ Lakshheish M Patel
Companies are more fearful than retail investors because retailers are making profits by selling more shares than companies in the last 2 months and so companies have sponsored business news channels anchors who advise these days retail investors not to fear and sell their shares so frenzily. Retail investors are further ready to offload their shares on Monday as they know Market is on bearish mood and char shows steep downward trend.
~ Lakshheish M Patel
Companies are sending their paid agents on news channels as experts to advise public to invest their money in stocks by treating it as monsoon sale. Because Companies do not want retail investors to sell as companies themselves want to sell to people and make profits
~ Lakshheish M Patel
Crook stock brokers had prior information that stock market will spurt up in the last 45 minutes of trading session therefore they had shut down their terminal function for that period so that traders can't make any profit. SBI securities had closed its server today
~ Lakshheish M Patel
General belief amongst all traders especially new ones is that stock market only falls and the way to make some money is to start the session everyday with short selling. But they also believe that all profits are snatched by crook brokerage houses by squandering their accounts
~ Lakshheish M Patel