Quotes About Profit

Profiting from student loans is usury, and we just can't continue to allow it.

A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn't mean they're going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.

Well, Hollywood isn't made up of individual studio heads anymore. It's made of corporations. And corporations are looking for the bottom line. They don't want to take chances. They want the money back for stockholders.

Basically, the big studios and companies distributing your movie just take a big cut of profit for making posters.

The studios basically, besides developing some material, their strength is distribution. Distribution in any other business is a cost that you incur. You know, in a trucking business, you eat it. In a film business, distribution is a profit center.

The hardware manufacturers, game designers, cable companies and computer companies and, in fact, film studios are going to ensure that this thing marches on. They know that they are going to make an enormous amount of money from it.

Studios will tell you that they can't turn a profit on female-driven entertainment. Which is like the Gap saying no one is buying clothes anymore. No. No one is buying your clothes.

I did have a very determined idea of making money. I was quite savvy about that. And that was my most basic lesson. You do have to understand the economics. It's pointless putting in all that work and losing money. If you're not making a profit you're stuffed.

If I can make a dollar, I certainly am not stupid.

No record company in the world would say, 'We're not promoting if you keep calling somebody a snitch.' They know what makes money. A record company would never be that stupid. Ever.

I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books.

Small films, made on shoe-string budget work in big centres, and for that a substantial amount of budget should be set aside for marketing.

There's very little substitute in the business world for making money.

My parents are from north London, and so it's not like I'm some Yank who wants to make a profit out of football. I don't care about making money. I just want to see Spurs succeed and, if I can help, that's great.

The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad.

Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it

The harder you work, the richer your company's boss gets only.

A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Properties perceived in nature will depend on how one looks and how one looks depends on the economic interest one has in the resources of nature. The value of profit maximization is thus linked to reductionist systems, while the value of life and the maintenance of life is linked to holistic and ecological systems.

Core Purpose: the one word/idea/speech driving the business 2.   BHAG®: the one 10- to 25-year goal for the company 3.   Profit per X: the one overarching KPI representing the core economic engine of the enterprise 4.   Brand Promise: the one most important measurable promise (of three) representing the brand 5.   The Critical Number: the one key driver for the year and the quarter

Drug companies don't have hearts or consciences. They want to sell you drugs. The company doesn't give a fig whether the drug makes you ill or kills you. The company just wants your money.

What kind of society turns its young people into a profit center for the debt industry?

to make him pay you for your product, you must make it pay him to read about it.