Quotes About Profit

Whatever is beautiful is also profitable.

Obviously the best way to retain the most profit is to not give any of it away. That's something that you certainly learn through the years.

Perhaps my number one rule is: Don't try to make a profit on a bad trade, just try to find the best place to get out.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies.

Some call it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business.

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

The only winner today is big business.

I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops and robbers business.

When you're out of quality, you're out of business.

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.

There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.

I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's a fantastic brand loyalty.

Startups don't fail because they lack a product; they fail because they lack customers and a profitable business model.

Look after the customer and the business will take care of itself

Television is a service, but it's also a business.

The biggest lesson I learned in the bar business is to focus on revenues. Dollars, not dimes.

Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper.

You can't tax business. Business doesn't pay taxes. It collects taxes.

A business model describes how your company creates, delivers and captures value.

All intelligent investing is value investing - acquiring more that you are paying for. You must value the business in order to value the stock.

You make more money selling advice than following it. It's one of the things we count on in the magazine business -- along with the short memory of our readers.

The intelligent investor shouldn't ignore Mr. Market entirely. Instead, you should do business with him- but only to the extent that it serves your interests.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.