Quotes About Profit

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

A man's drive for profit should be prompted by the desire to give charity.

The man who holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare.

What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.

A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards up his riches will have no profit.

The goal was to find products that would keep on making money forever, long after the talent had been paid off and sent packing.

On the subject of motive, there are, generally speaking, six major motives for murder. Ready? They are profit, revenge, jealousy, concealment of a crime, avoidance of humiliation or disgrace, and homicidal mania.

I'm always a fan of good business moves.

Sometimes you have to make a movie to make money.

Movies are an expensive business.

If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

I have known from the beginning one thing you need to know. That is, the music business is a business.

You see there's music and there's the music business - and they're different.

I don't think the music business is a very good business to be in.

Everyone has learned how to monetize music except the music industry.

When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to lose.

The margins for restaurants to make money are very, very narrow. It's a tough business, and to be a chef is a little bit masochistic.

Capitalism would, in the end, Marx said, turn on the so-called free market, along with the values and traditions it claims to defend. It would in its final stages pillage the systems and structures that made capitalism possible. It would resort, as it causes widespread suffering, to harsher forms of repression to maintain social control. It would attempt, in a frantic last stand, to extract profit by looting and pillaging state institutions, contradicting its stated nature.

In the early 1990s, Khodorkovsky made a fortune by attracting government deposits to his bank and speculating against the collapsing ruble. His bank, Menatep, was the largest holder of government funds, and much of the profit he made as a banker came at the government's expense.19 Khodorkovsky used his banking business to expand into other sectors, purchasing the Yukos oil company at a knock-down price in 1995 through a scandal-plagued privatization scheme.

I know how the world works. Business decisions are not made for the good of the people, but for the sake of profit, loyalty and expedience.

When war makes commerce and commerce is law, profit rules prudence and justice is flawed.

what do you bring to this enterprise to justify a third of the profits?" "Will," said Iago.

Because if you're going to make a small inexpensive computer you have to sell a lot of them to make a lot of money. And we intend to make a lot of money.