Quotes About Profit

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

Small business people are people with goals and values that can't be calculated on a profit and loss statement.

Many companies claim they have core values, but typically what they're referring to are generic beliefs: having integrity, making a profit, responding to customers and so on. These values only have meaning when they're defined in terms of how people behave and are ranked to set priorities.

Of course, lawyers are always making money either way—up, down, and especially around.

The language of division can always be monetised.

Yet I had invested nothing up front. It was just a matter of recognizing that one person's distress is another person's opportunity.   When

Marketing is the greatest return-on-investment activity a business can ever do. Let

as long as their salespeople maintain sales from existing clients at past levels or above, give them 100 percent of the profit on the first sale for every new client they bring in. They'll be ten times more motivated to sell new clients.

Marketing experts see today as two separate ages. One requires the age-old principles of patience and commitment for the eventual profit. The other requires a can't-refuse offer, a large and responsive mailing list, and online dexterity for the quick profit. The guerrilla marketer of today operates comfortably in both ages.

Internet is by far his most profit-producing marketing weapon in his arsenal. Yet he has never sold one thing online.

It costs six times more to sell a product or a service to a new customer than it does to an existing customer.

If you've decided to market online, the first rule of which you should be aware is the rule of thirds: You should determine the budget you'll have for online marketing, then invest one third in developing your site, one third in promoting your site, and one third in maintaining your site. Most ill-advised online marketers invest three thirds in developing their site, then wonder why they aren't earning landmark profits.

If it could, capitalism would make due with white rats.

L'adversité sans doute est un grand maître, mais il fait payer cher ses leçons, et souvent le profit qu'on en retire ne vaut pas le prix qu'elles ont coûté.

One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

The only reason to go into business is to make money. You have to work hard at it. If you're not passionate about it, you'll burn out so fast that it is incredible.

Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

Your money should be at work at all times.

If you want to sell 'em fish, sell 'em big fish. That's the secret to success.

People work hard and companies make big profits, but employees don't see that they share in the wealth they help to create.

At a major label you can start to feel that you're working for them, and that any work you do, you're never going to see any benefit.

That's what we do when we work in Silicon Valley tech startups: We think about who's going to benefit from this. That's almost the only thing we think about.

If one asserts that buying customers below what they charge them is a corporate strategy, this is in essence an arbitrage game, and arbitrage games rarely last.

Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula. Lifetime value is the net present value of the profit stream of a customer.