Quotes About Profits

A sustaining innovation makes better products that you can sell for better profits to your best customers.

The IP standards advanced countries favour typically are designed not to maximise innovation and scientific progress, but to maximise the profits of big pharmaceutical companies and others able to sway trade negotiations.

We're still expecting capitalism to solve problems: 'Maybe if we sell enough oil, we can give some profits to an environmental agency!' Capitalism isn't a moral system.

I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful.

In December 1941 the Japanese poet Takamura K?tar? summed up the Japanese view of the conflict with the West: We are standing for justice and life, While they are standing for profits, We are defending justice, While they are attacking for profits, They raise their heads in arrogance, While we are constructing the Great East Asia family.

Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.

It is often charged that advertising can persuade people to buy inferior products. So it can – once. But the consumer perceives that the product is inferior and never buys it again. This causes grave financial loss to the manufacturer, whose profits come from repeat purchases. The best way to increase the sale of a product is to improve the product.

Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

The facility of obtaining food is beneficial in two ways to the owners of capital, it at the same time raises profits and increases the amount of consumable commodities.

There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.

The nature of addiction has implications - more precisely, temptations -for businesses that sell habituating products. One is to encourage early and frequent consumption. Treat the lads, the salon keepers used to say, and you'll have their money in the till when they're adults. And the more they drink, the greater the profits.

mascot for a butcher shop whose profits went entirely to support the owner's acid habit.

A biotech firm will therefore take care to create a downstream monopoly that maximizes profits from selling the drug.

I also understood that for more than forty years, workers' pay hadn't kept pace with inflation. Productivity had gone up. Profits had gone up. Executives had gotten raises. Couldn't we at last come together to make sure that the people who did some of the hardest, dirtiest work in the nation got at least a chance to build a little security? And

Diagnostic inflation has led to an explosive growth in the use of psychotropic drugs; this then produced huge profits that have given the pharmaceutical industry the means and the motive to blow up the diagnostic bubble into an ever-expanding balloon.

The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services.

With less competition to fear, companies are emboldened to raise their mark-ups and profits. That lifts share prices and thus the wealth of already wealthy shareholders.

We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

Now we know that, the way contracts are set up, it's not really made for artists to get rich from selling records - that's the company's one shot to make money.

Corporations, like nations, do not have friends. They have interests.

Our focus is on the customers and improving their experience. We believe that if we do that well, competition, prices, and profits will all take care of themselves.

Gender diversity brings prosperity - to the country that sees its economy grow, to the business seeking to raise its profits, and to the woman who gets the job her efforts and talents merit.