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Quotes About Profit

Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It's more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society.
~ Jimmy Reid
You can't invest in natural gas on a daily basis. It's too volatile. But if you think of natural gas as a long-term holding, then you push your profit horizon out. A long-term time horizon would be at least two years.
~ T. Boone Pickens
I deal in volume. To sell volume, it must be affordable. So that's my whole life, is to make it affordable.
~ Harry Triguboff
We want to be the volume number one, but also we want to have 8 percent in operating profit.
~ Martin Winterkorn
I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.
~ Adam Levine
If any PC manufacturer has made money selling PCs retail in the last 10 years, I'd like to know who they are.
~ Ted Waitt
It's whatever sells; it's the business of it.
~ Don Bluth
I want to make sensible commercial films.
~ Paresh Rawal
And one thing Hollywood does well is sequels.
~ Spike Lee
There's nothing wrong with doing sequels, they're just easier to sell.
~ J. J. Abrams
Too many companies are running their business into the ground, I would argue, by being myopically short-term focused on the shareholder.
~ Paul Polman
People take shortcuts to meet ends in MNCs.
~ Ravi Subramanian
At the end of the day, it's show business: you earn money to make money.
~ Taapsee Pannu
The radio is not show fun, it's show business. It's money.
~ Dierks Bentley
I want my films to make money first. Awards and all can come later.
~ Fahadh Faasil
I don't care about awards. I want to make money. I want to own a business.
~ Ryan Kavanaugh
Creativity should be balanced with commercial interests.
~ Pankaj Kapur
My business is the art of balancing the need to make money with the desire to create.
~ John Allison
Having bands in the NFL would take up seats. If you take up seats in the NFL, you're losing money.
~ LaMarr Woodley
On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.
~ Viktor Orban
Google has the informal corporate motto of "don't be evil", but they make money when anything happens online, even the bad stuff.' In
~ Jon Ronson
E così loro stanno tranquilli nelle loro case a rimpinguare profitti, e noi siamo tutti qui. I nostri affari sono un fallimento, i posti di lavoro si assottigliano, gli ospedali vanno a pezzi, le campagne sono allo stremo, le nostre case confiscate, i nostri corpi avvelenati, le nostre menti all'ammasso, tutto lo spirito vitale del paese è straziato, ridotto all'ultimo respiro
~ Jonathan Coe
What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable... Factory farms calculate how close to death they can keep animals without killing them. That's the business model. How quickly they can be made to grow, how tightly they can be packed, how much or how little can they eat, how sick they can get without dying...We live in a world in which it's conventional to treat an animal like a block of wood.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with delight and profit.
~ A. Bronson Alcott