Quotes About Profit

In her 2011 book, Marx and Education, she claimed, "An important insight of Marx was that capitalism is an economic system that cannot function without fundamental inequality—meaning that inequity is built into the way the system works. Business owners must make a profit to survive, and those who do not own businesses must find jobs and work in these enterprises, if they are to provide for themselves and their families.

According to George Soros, what's important is not whether you're right or wrong about the market. What's important is how much money you make when you're right about a trade, and how much money you lose when you're wrong.

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

The value of a business is the cash it's going to produce in the future.

I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based.

To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.

The Very Big Stupid is a thing which breeds by eating The Future. Have you seen it? It sometimes disguises itself as a good-looking quarterly bottom line, derived by closing the R&D department.

The future of profit is purpose.

At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'.

Our goal is long-term growth in revenue and absolute profit - so we invest aggressively in future innovation while tightly managing our short-term costs.

My only goal was to make the largest profit possible for my employer. I was caught in a spiral that - with the support of my bosses - continued to lead up and up.

Many people and companies only have one goal: money, money, and more money. Greed is ok when you let others profit from it, but greed for oneself is bad, it makes you ill.

Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price, not a mediocre business at a bargain price.

Size of industry, concentration of market, or production notwithstanding, the consumer is best served when the businessman is completely free to pursue his profit goals.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

Capitalism is founded on greed and envy

We may wonder how the ability to profit from land fosters social dysfunction, but once we realize the extent to which community wealth is privatized for personal gain, we also come to realize just how corrupt most societies actually are. Many social problems exist as a result of how our system misallocates wealth, not as a result of an unalterable human condition.

Once you are able to observe each phase, along with each strategy for each phase being played out, you only have to wait for the profit release phase and then join it.

Does design pay off? The Design Management Institute partnered with Motiv Strategies to measure the return on design investment where it counts—in stock values. Over a 10-year period, a $10,000 investment in design-centric companies would have yielded returns 228 percent greater than the same investment in the S&P 500. And this is only an average.

After all, you have just been sold a painting for $1 million, and the cost of making it was probably less than $500.

White men invented whiskey and brought it to America. They manufacture, advertise, and sell it to us. They make the profit on it and cause the conditions that make Indians drink in the first place.

Instead of taking all this information and using it as a window on the entire world, a big part of the media industry now exists in large part to confirm your beliefs. People have figured out that there's a lot of money to be made telling you that you were right in the first place. It makes both sides more dug in.

People within a company can be divided into two groups: those who earn money and those who don't. Only those frontline people who develop, produce, and sell products are earning money for the company. The ideal company would have only one person who does not earn money—the president—leaving the rest of the employees directly involved in revenue-generating activity.

The DebtOne deal was simply a typical transaction in a consumer credit industry that depends upon robo-signing, mass fraud, and intentionally thin paperwork as essential elements of its profit model.