Quotes About Profit

Merck • Corporate social responsibility • Unequivocal excellence in all aspects of the company • Science-based innovation • Honesty and integrity • Profit, but profit from work that benefits humanity Nordstrom

If you could pick one and only one ratio—profit per x (or, in the social sector, cash flow per x)—to systematically increase over time, what x would have the greatest and most sustainable impact on your economic engine?

The point of business was to make just enough money to keep going, not to create a monster of productivity that chained a person to the wheels of power and stifled all creativity and imagination. Business should not be profit-driven; it should be idea-driven.

All I want to do is make serious movies that explore social issues and turn a profit, and slip the schnitzel to Jane DePugh.

We know that BP cuts safety corners, takes risks, and is unconcerned about anything other than their own profit.

One way to mitigate our risk is to invest in companies with understandable business models.

What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

Mitt Romney understands the private sector, he understands how profit is created, and he isn't embarrassed by it.

I am uneasy about having scientific exploration depend on profit-making companies.

I think canceling a game that is making a profit, along with destroying jobs and an online community, is entirely unethical.

Timber extraction provides big profits at the expense of local communities. Providing communities with unfettered access to harvest a forest that is protected in perpetuity provides better and more reliable incomes.

There's a profit attached to every problem. Find it, face it and fix it.

An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.

Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.

To make dollars from cents you have to have sense.

It's easy to scare women. It's even profitable to scare women... But it's not nice, so let's stop it.

The only economic paradigm that movies have ever known is capitalism. There were no church sponsors or state patronage. The idea was that if you'd pay to see it, we'll make it for you.

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

A healthy corporation acts on the interests of its stakeholders and customers.

Sometimes, we get mixed up when we say that profit is not important for stakeholders. Oxygen is not the reason a person lives. But it is essential to have oxygen, although it's not the only reason for a person's existence. It is similar for profit.

When a profit-seeking company proposes to take citizens' private land away for its own gain, people should stand up for their rights.

Lawmakers must stand up for companies that choose public safety over profit margins.

As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.

I was always trying to write standards, songs that anybody can sing. I figured that's where the money was.