Quotes About Profit

But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.

I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

Businesses can lead with their values and make money, too. You don't have to simply be purely profit-driven. You can integrate social and environmental concerns into a business, be a caring business, be a generous business and still do very well financially.

If Vancouver did not succeed as Starbucks from '87 on, our entire international business, which is now thousands of stores and a significant amount of growth and profit, may not have existed.

To economists, prices serve as crucial signals to producers and consumers. In a regulated market, the state sets prices high enough for private companies to cover their costs and earn a guaranteed profit for their investors. But in a deregulated market, prices should vary with demand and supply.

Companies are accumulating vast amounts of information about your likes and dislikes. But they are doing this not only because you're interesting. The more they know, the more money they can make.

Nevada Energy doesn't lose money. The gaming industry loses money. It employs all the people. It pays all the taxes. And if you take the P&L, the profit and loss, of the hotels in Las Vegas and Reno, it is a number that is minus, not plus, minus.

Any time that you have a sporting event with a Vegas line to it, there's always going to be somebody involved in organized crime trying to make a dollar off of it.

I've asked these guys in rock bands with all the 18-wheelers driving to the venue how they make money. I just don't understand it. But I don't understand a lot of things.

I never advise friends to put money in anything,. said Danny. 'It's a no-win situation - if they make a profit they forget that it was you who recommended it, and if they make a loss they never stop reminding you. My only advise would be not to gamble what you can't afford, and never to risk an amount that might cause you to lose a night's sleep

the only people who made a profit out of crime were the lawyers and the criminals

Markets cannot meet the needs of the very poor. The desperately poor are not consumers who will create an immediate profit.

Blackwater is a company whose business depends on war and conflict to thrive. It operates in a demand-based industry where corporate profits are intimately linked to an escalation of violence. That

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Expensive quality work doesn't cost more - it pays.

The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them.

I'm a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we've sold a lot of records, let's sell some more.

I just want to do the least work in the least time and make the most money.

Your net worth comes from your added value

Only loving people who love you isn't profitable

At the end of the day, if you have a great product and service paired with the wrong pricing strategy / business model, you don't have a business.

If you're in business, all the content in the world will do you no good unless it leads to a sale.

This world is a business venture and only those that mean business reap bountifully from it.