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Quotes About Profit

The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.
~ Kevin O'Leary
The public be damned. I am working for my stockholders.
~ William Henry Vanderbilt
Simply put: we don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services.
~ Mark Zuckerberg
During the Gold Rush, most would-be miners lost money, but people who sold them picks, shovels, tents and blue-jeans (Levi Strauss) made a nice profit.
~ Peter Lynch
Selling more stuff to more people more often for more money more efficiently
~ Sergio Zyman
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
~ A. J. Liebling
Remember, I am neither a bear nor a bull, I am an agnostic opportunist. I want to make money short- and long-term. I want to find good situations and exploit them.
~ Jim Cramer
I began to realize that the big money must necessarily be in the big swing.
~ Jesse Lauriston Livermore
You have to manage money. Particularly with market economies. You may have a great product but if your bottom line goes bust then that's it.
~ Mukesh Ambani
Go where the money is... and go there often.
~ Willie Sutton
We don't like trading agony for money
~ Charlie Munger
Of course we're doing it for the money. We've always done it for the money.
~ Mick Jagger
A good trader loves an active market, you don't make money when the market is static.
~ Kevin Kinsella
If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on me as an idler.
~ Henry David Thoreau
When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.
~ Mel Brooks
I'm not trying to make friends, I'm trying to make money.
~ Kevin O'Leary
Multinational corporations and a market economy have transformed human beings into instruments of making money. Human beings should be the end. And money should be the means to an end.
~ Satish Kumar
I made my money by selling too soon.
~ Bernard Baruch
Sales Cure All. Know how your company will make money and how you will actually make sales.
~ Mark Cuban
War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
~ Ron Paul
What's worth doing is worth doing for money.
~ Michael Douglas
What makes the most money for this business? Dead rock stars.
~ Courtney Love
The way we make money as a group is that we don't pay a lot for anything, and most of the stocks we buy have low expectations.
~ Joel Greenblatt