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Quotes About Profit

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
~ Arthur Miller
This company doesn't pay anybody. Only customers can do that. The company merely handles the money.
~ Henry Ford
Without a customer, you don't have a business - all you have is a hobby.
~ Don Peppers
He that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Movies in general are more generic. If something sells just make more. That's Hollywood.
~ Rob Zombie
If you want to make money in music, get into the band uniform business.
~ Henry Mancini
The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.
~ Billy Corgan
The music business is strictly business.
~ Kenny Rogers
It's unfortunate that music has become such big business.
~ Rosanna Arquette
The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.
~ Tom Petty
The nature of any human being, certainly anyone on Wall Street, is 'the better deal you give the customer, the worse deal it is for you'.
~ Bernard Madoff
Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.
~ Xunzi
The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.
~ Alan Greenspan
God's favor floats as it were over all this and finds joy in turning all those miseries to the greater profit of those who love Him. From toil He makes patience spring forth.
~ Francis de Sales
The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.
~ Lincoln Steffens
If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
~ Dogen
That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.
~ Henry George
My philosophy is that you sell things for more than you bought them.
~ Sophia Amoruso
The ultimate profit of all businesses should be happiness.
~ Debasish Mridha
Profit sharing in the form of stock distributions to workers would help to democratize the ownership of America's vast corporate wealth which is today appallingly undemocratic and unhealthy.
~ Walter Reuther
A good businessman knows how to make a profit. An engineer makes sure it runs well. We need more leaders who are task oriented.
~ Phil Mitchell
A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.
~ Jay Samit
A dream business that doesn't make money is a living nightmare.
~ Habeeb Akande
Sell your materials but save your morals.
~ Amit Kalantri