Quotes About Profit

The networks are business-oriented cowards.

Every cable news channel was a very big business success before Donald Trump started lying about Barack Obama's birth certificate. And they were all making more money than they knew what to do with then and more money than Donald Trump has ever seen in his life.

I buy newspapers to make money to buy more newspapers to make more money.

Misery sells newspapers.

Cable is a niche business. If you can own a niche, that can be a very strong business.

A lot of people go into the bar and nightclub business thinking: 'Hey, we can make money for a year or two, close and then open again,' but for me, it's always been a business and it's always been about longevity.

The box office is a black money laundry shop. No business is straight.

If a movie crosses budget and becomes a hit, no one cares. They care only when it doesn't do well.

At the end of the day, everything boils down to money and if the film doesn't do well, then there's no point.

War is a racket. The few profit, the many pay.

Neoliberalism is the defining political economic paradigm of our time—it refers to the policies and processes whereby a relative handful of private interests are permitted to control as much as possible of social life in order to maximize their personal profit.

these six corporations, and more precisely, the key decision makers within them, set the boundaries on acceptable debate on what's socially, politically, economically possible. They make their decisions on those things based on profit maximization, both short and long term. If you think they're making their decisions on anything else, you are mistaken.

The new stage of capitalism recognizes that serving the genuine needs of people can be less lucrative than selling predictions of their behavior.

But from the point of view of the masters of mankind, it doesn't matter much—"as long as we make plenty of profit tomorrow, who cares if our grandchildren won't have a world to live in?

Part of the whole capitalist ethic is that the only thing that matters is how much money you make tomorrow: that's the crucial value of the system, profit for tomorrow. Not just profit, but the bottom line has to look good tomorrow. And the result is that planning for the future, and any kind of regulatory apparatus that would sustain the environment for the long-term, become impossible?and that means the planet is going to go down the tubes very fast.

Hoy la política se ha reducido a una aventura lucrativa en la que se busca, sobre todo, que las inversiones sean rentables más que contribuir a la reconstrucción de un entorno, una comunidad o una nación muy degradados. Ese es uno de los beneficios que los planes de ajuste estructural le ha impuesto al continente: la entronización de la corrupción».

It's necessary for the capitalists to find on the market the commodity that produces more value than it itself costs. That's the trick. This unique commodity is labor power, and is the only element in the process that produces surplus value, which is the source of profit. It's a unique commodity in that regard. How does this work? Fortunately, there is a simple answer. I hate to be bearer of bad news, but this is how it works: exploitation of the worker.

You paid off a million dollars since January?" Viola shook her head. "That must've been one holy hell of a yard sale.

Rather, in our distorted fee-for-service world, the work to coordinate and oversee care just isn't as profitable as other activities.

that leadership is more crucial in coping with disruptive technologies than with sustaining ones, and that small, emerging markets cannot solve the near-term growth and profit requirements of large companies.

Companies make attractive money when they solve the hardest problems.

And on the plantations, the overseers preserved the names of workers in rows of tight cursive, every name an asset, breathing capital, profit made flesh.

Her isim mal, nefes alan sermayeydi; etten ve kemikten kâr.

His body, his mind, his soul, had, for years, served only for the profit of others. He had his own people to whom he was pledged. Three million. They were the currency of his freedom.