Quotes About Profit

sustained high gross profit margins relative to industry peers tends to indicate durable competitive advantage. Zeroing

best businesses to own are those in which end markets are growing rather than shrinking. Absent

Con el telón de fondo de las intensas presiones competitivas, el papel del directivo empezaba a verse cada vez más comprometido. Los sueldos que podían cobrar en las grandes compañías eran notables, pero también los riesgos de ser despedidos. Sus actuaciones se juzgaban de acuerdo con modelos cada vez más exigentes, pero desde luego el objetivo más importante era conseguir beneficios a corto plazo que atrajeran a nuevos inversores.

the candidate that gets covered is the candidate that it is most profitable to cover

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

our goal is not just to make money but to make great products.. make only first-class products with high margins so that Apple could continue to develop even better first-class products

There is, in the heart, the hard-rendering profit. As if we were plucking the leaves from the trees.

Both the Pollyannas and the Cassandras are wrong, and both stand in the way of social justice, the former by condemning us all to catastrophic climate change and the loss of other vital ecosystem services for the sake of profit; the latter by condemning us all to a hair-shirted existence and refusal of further human development due to a romantic, unscientific belief in a static, unchanging balance of nature.

Companies are run by computers. Profit margins are sliced thin. And no manager dare raise his eyes from his accounts long enough to learn the names of his staff. It's the price we pay for progress.

They say the mustard manufacturers get rich from the dabs of mustard people leave on their plates. And we'll get rich in the same way, darling. From selling the soldiers weapons they'll never use.

We're cutting corners, maximizing short-term profits

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. — I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it — but fear I must.

Unfortunately, Doug, we have lost the long-term perspective, and we are suffering from an absurd and very unwise belief that there can be unlimited economic development on a planet of finite natural resources, focusing on short-term results or profits at the expense of long-term interests.

It seems clear, though, from the history of novel writing since Dickens's time, that the production of enduring literary art has little or no relationship to market success, except insofar as a publisher can fund the publication of more complex and difficult works with the profits of a steady stream of popular stories. Even the most "loyal" readers grow "disloyal" when the work fails to please them.

The great problem with corporate capitalism is that publicly owned companies have short time horizons. Unlike a privately owned business, the top executives of a publicly owned corporation generally come to their positions late in life. Consequently, they have a few years in which to make their fortune.

I try to buy shares of unpopular companies when they look like road kill and sell them when they've been polished up a bit.

Profit at any cost is one extreme of the spectrum. On the other extreme is unselfish submission for the social good or, more accurately, charity. Somewhere in the middle is peaceful, and much required, coexistence.

You've got to open on a Sunday, but at the end of the day, you've just lost a lot of money by opening on the Sunday, so it's very, very difficult to make money when you're paying unskilled people $42 per hour.

Continuing down a path where profit is king is unsustainable for our society, our health and our planet.

Leave no stone unturned to help your clients realize maximum profits from their investment.

I don't think there is anything unusual about a business losing money in certain years.

Shareholders share in the downside and not necessarily in the upside; that's the whole story.

There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.

The #1 guideline to success is you must be in business for yourself. When you work for someone else, you sell your time at wholesale to your employer, who then re-sells it at retail to the customer.