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Quotes About Profits

Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their losses…in effect, they tax you for their accidents, bungling, boondoggles, and mismanagement, just like a government. We should be able to deselect them.
~ Ralph Nader
Our public lands contain a wealth of natural resources—trees, oil, gas, coal, gold, silver, copper, iron, zinc, and many other minerals, onshore and off. We own these lands. Yet under current law the corporations control their extraction and pay very little to Uncle Sam for what revenues and profits they reap. Sometimes, in fact, they pay just about nothing.
~ Ralph Nader
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
Done correctly, everyone from individual speakers to large organizations can inspire citizens and customers to spread a message using their own social channels, and in so doing, inspire countless supporters to build their reputation, profits and social impact.
~ Simon Mainwaring
The Obama administration contends that starting a for-profit business means leaving religious liberty behind. The administration has effectively told the Supreme Court that for-profit companies have no right to act on moral convictions the government opposes. They are about profits. That position is deeply mistaken.
~ Josh Hawley
One of the most watched - and least meaningful - financial metrics each quarter is the number of 'earnings surprises,' or instances in which companies' profits beat analysts' expectations.
~ Mina Kimes
Pekerja tidak selalu mendapatkan apa yang dihasilkan oleh kapitalis, tetapi suah pasi akan turut jatuh ketika kapitalis mrngalami kerugian. Sehingga pekerja tidak mendapatkan apapun ketika kapitalis menjaga harga barang di atas harga alaminya baik itu melalui jasa perdagangan atau produksi rahasia, ataupun melalui monopoli
~ Karl Marx
Its patriarchal society became one in which people were reduced to factors of production, with the whole system fueled by desire for export profits.
~ Karl Marx
False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.
~ Hesiod
I think one of the most immoral things is college football and basketball, where everybody is making money except the players.
~ Frank Deford
Trading is a waiting game. You sit, you wait, and you make a lot of money all at once. Profits come in bunches. The trick when going sideways between home runs is not to lose too much in between.
~ Michael Covel
Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I think money is pretty straightforward. Get some money in; pay off what you owe, the rest is yours.
~ Lemar
There's nothing crazy about not letting our companies bring their money back into their country.
~ Donald Trump
CEOs need to produce continuous growth in sales and profits. Yet they must also invest in sustainability and social responsibility, which then leave them less money for financing their growth.
~ Philip Kotler
The financial markets are not to be trusted. They expect to be given free reign to make huge profits while the sun is shining, but hasten to the shelter of the state when the skies darken.
~ Peter Stalker
It has become clear that the function of a private health insurance is to make as much money as possible. Every dollar not paid out in claims is another dollar made in profits for the company.
~ Bernie Sanders
Ray and I do not draw salaries. Any profits will be re-invested into marketing the music we believe in.
~ Steve Vai
It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.
~ Chad Kroeger
It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country...but the profits...skyrocket.
~ Smedley Butler
Pushers don't pay taxes.
~ Big Daddy Kane
A family man shouldn't trade his peace for profits, it is the job of a businessman.
~ Amit Kalantri
The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.
~ James Lovelock
Already, by the end of 1771, the mood was beginning to change in London. Word was spreading about the Company's inhumanity in Bengal: the number of dead and dying was simply too vast to hide. Horace Walpole's letters reflected a growing awareness that behind the EIC's vast profits there was something profoundly rotten at work in the Company's Indian operations. 'The groans of India have mounted to heaven
~ William Dalrymple