Quotes About Profit

I care deeply about journalism, but we need to be a business.

At the end of the day, every media entity is in the business of selling soap. They're not afraid of being popular.

You can't run a business based on sympathies; otherwise our business would be hampered.

Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.

What do you want your business to do? Make money, of course. To pay for people and supplies, to be able to grow.

If you are doing well, your business will pay more in tax; if you're not doing well, you pay less.

20 percent customers give you 80 percent of the business? Are you focusing on them?

Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.

Both terrorism and insurance sell fear -- and business is business

People before Profit.

People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us.

Publishers are businesses and I don't blame them for that. If they didn't make money by publishing books, there wouldn't be any books.

I built them what they wanted and I made a profit off of it. Now they call me a god...What fools these mortals be.

The focus of the entrepreneur must always be on exchanging products or services for money, and anything that distracts from that like actually running a business, should be avoided where possible.

Running a business well means knowing when it's time to make profit.

Business is about profit, yes – and it is about more than profit: at its best, it is about expanding the possibilities of humanity.

That's called business, let's shake hands and .... we just made one great deal.

Because truly big companies don't like taking gambles on small people ~unless it is a guaranteed return.

What's the best way to ensure your small business makes a profit? Without a doubt, it's to keep your overhead costs low, and maximize your sales per marketing dollar.

Business is likeoil. It won't mix with anything but business.

If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong.

Economy and the profit margin ruled—although, in hindsight, it does seem that this was a false economy. Ships had to be manned above capacity to allow for a 30, 40 or even 50 percent death rate from scurvy. Even without a high death rate, the effectiveness of a crew suffering from scurvy would have been remarkably low. And then there was the humane factor—rarely considered during these centuries.

What the English government and investors expected from their colony in America was a strong return for their past investments, accompanied by an unquestioning obedience.

Yet the stomach for war breeds an appetite for money.