Quotes About Profit

Last year, the top ten pharmaceutical companies spent seventy-three billion dollars on advertising and less than twenty-nine billion on research. Tell me where their focus is.

Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets!

Moments are the elements of profit

Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity

By contrast, under conditions of simple reproduction, there would be no surplus-value and no profit whatsoever, since all surplus-value would be unproductively consumed without entering into the reproduction process.

Por eso el dinero constituye el punto de arranque y el punto final de todo proceso de valorización.

We have thus seen that even the most favorable situation for the working class, namely, the most rapid growth of capital, however much it may improve the material life of the worker, does not abolish the antagonism between his interests and the interests of the capitalist. Profit and wages remain as before, in inverse proportion.

Indudablemente, la voluntad del capitalista consiste en embolsarse lo más que pueda. Y lo que hay que hacer no es discurrir acerca de lo que quiere, sino investigar su poder, los límites de este poder y el carácter de estos límites.

How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise

No man profiteth but by the loss of others.

Training can get on a man's nerves. There is no profit or use in denying it.

The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such profit, but in the end the profit will turn out to be a loss.

What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices; it comes down to a commercial dealing in which self-esteem always expects to profit.

In capitalism, profit does not come out of another man's hardship; it comes out of new production of new wealth that's never existed before.

An inventor is someone who makes another man rich.

If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.

Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man's field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.

The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious. [Lat., Cui homini dii propitii sunt aliquid objiciunt lucri.]

Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.

Today, basically, on Wall Street, the big money is made by taking risks.

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong