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Quotes About Profit

Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever.
~ Nicholas Sparks
(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss
~ Peter Drucker
The purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer. All business activities must be focused on this central purpose.
~ Brian Tracy
There is only one social responsibility of business
~ Milton Friedman
There's such an emphasis on making money that we've really taken the humanity out of business.
~ Paul Tudor Jones
The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring.
~ Dianne Wiest
I learned that monthly payments are the cornerstone of everything in the automobile business.
~ Lee Iacocca
We did anything possible just to get revenues so that we could grow and be a real business.
~ Mark Pincus
You should look at stocks as small pieces of business.
~ Warren Buffett
You know what's a savvy business move? Making a profit.
~ Cenk Uygur
Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it's probably a bad business in which to invest.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
The true business of every company is to make and keep customers.
~ Peter Drucker
Sustainability is about profit...it is the opportunity of the century
~ Unknown
Make your money on the buy, not the sell; this is true in any investment whether it's real estate, business, or the stock market
~ Ziad K. Abdelnour
No scheme pays as well as legitimate business.
~ E. W. Howe
No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs.
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business.
~ Duane Michals
Cash in must exceed cash out.
~ Robert Heller
There isn't one thing the federal government does that anybody in Big Business would emulate, at least not in the profit sector.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Take care of your customers, and you will have a successful business. Don't, and you won't. The airlines need to figure this out - soon.
~ Jeffrey Pfeffer
Don't have any opinions. They're bad for business.
~ Jerome Lawrence
Commercial organisations that operate responsibly have benefitted by increased revenues of 682% compared to 166% for those that don't
~ John P. Kotter
The common mistake that business people make is they're going to get drive-by business...Only gas stations are helped
~ John Warren Kindt
High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out. And that's wrong.
~ Unknown