Quotes About Profit

War! Someone's making a hell of a lot of money.

We must recognize that we cannot depend on the governments of the world to abolish war because they and the economic interests they represent benefit from war.

The archiving industry, much like the funeral industry and the wedding industry, these industries can be very exploitative.

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.

A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried!

The only way to win money out of a casino is to own one.

Far better to love without profit than love not and reap bitterness.

The money from selling a dog doesn't bark

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

Roughly speaking, when you are dealing with business firms operating in a competitive system, you can assume that they're going to act rationally. Why? Because someone in a firm who buys things at $10 and sells them for $8.00 isn't going to last very long in that firm.

There's money to be made by driving a species extinct.

In a free market and in the absence of planning, developers will flatten every hillside, fill every canyon, obliterate every endangered species, and pave over every wetland they think they can make a buck on.

In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.

Where we're living we have a certain amount of our profit every year it's like a percentage 5 or 7% or something like that that we set aside specifically for charity things.

Gambling is entertainment... Financial markets, what one often refers to as speculation, is really the force by which we move capital to the best and highest use.

There are days when you make runs, and there will be a dry spell. Like in business, every year you don't make profits.

You must spend money to make money.

When companies minimize their costs, they can spend more on R & D and marketing. It's just very logical.

Facebook can spend and talk endlessly to defend itself so long as it keeps printing money.

They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business.

We are taking close to $10 a CD the way we are doing it, and I think that is a fair amount to split up between five guys. Each of us makes like two bucks a record.

Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.

If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.

No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public.