Quotes About Profits

In a capitalist economy, entrepreneurs create businesses to make profits, which they earn by pleasing their customers. But in a socialist system, a bureaucrat decides which businesses can open, where they can operate, and what they can sell, and he really doesn't care what the customer thinks.

If I make great profits in the stock market, I pay my capital-gains tax on the gain and then reinvest what's left in real estate, again further securing my asset foundation.

Bombieri's Law: of Finance: Profits are on paper, losses are in cash

I suppose we couldn't realize, or could realize but couldn't accept, that the logic of business is not a logic in that sense. It's not only a narrow consideration of profits and losses, but a larger logic of, well, appetite. To buy something is to assert oneself, and to sell it, for whatever reason, is to collaborate in one's own diminishment.

The years after the war saw the growth of copper, gold, and tin mining. As always, the profits flowed out of the territory. It

And finally Money noted that the huge Dutch profits from Java depended on forced labor.

wages of labour, the profits of stock, or the rent of land.

Our merchants and master manufacturers complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price, and thereby lessening the sale of their goods, both at home and abroad. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits; they are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains; they complain only of those of other people.

Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.

What should we change in our product development process? Eliminate waste? Increase quality? Raise efficiency? Shorten cycle time? The key to answering this question is to step back to a more basic question: Why do we want to change the product development process? The answer: to increase profits.

When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.

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.

Whereas a competitive firm must sell at the market price, a monopoly owns its market, so it can set its own prices. Since it has no competition, it produces at the quantity and price combination that maximizes its profits.

Normally, banks record profits on loans only as they are repaid, whether they securitize the loans or hold them on their books.

Most of the tech CEOs I know used to think that moving to the Midwest or the South was beneath us, a good tactic for the Boeings of the world who don't need the kind of rare skills we depend on, who have to grub for profits when we reach for growth. But if Amazon can't afford to keep growing in Seattle, who can?

Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses.

The state is valuable if it helps to maximize profits, but is apparently to have little part in economic life beyond this and beyond fulfilling functions which are too big or too unprofitable for private enterprise.

Here's what I think in a nutshell," Brian said with vehemence. "I think you are running what amounts to fraud with your health insurance coconspirators by taking advantage of this country's laissez-faire healthcare situation to maximize your profits. In the process, you and your collections people are bankrupting me and hundreds of others.

In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.

Could we chose to amend the rules of the game to create a society that values people over profits, life over pollution, mutual care over guns and prisons, vision over dysfunction?

Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.

The system is a monster which devours people for the sake of its profits.

An astute trader aims to enter the market during quiet times and take profits during wild times.

The New Sell & Sell Short: How to Take Profits, Cut Losses, and Benefit from Price Declines (John Wiley & Sons, 2011).