Quotes About Profit

Nothing appalled Deming more than the idea of the interchangeable manager. "What is the motivation and purpose of men like this?" he would say with contempt. "Do they even know what they do anymore? What do they produce?" All they knew about was numbers, not product. All they thought about was maximum profit, not excellence of product.

Finance capital increasingly looked abroad for higher rates of return.

Money talks, bullshit walks. First and foremost the magazine had to pay its way.

If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety,but profit.

Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade.

In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.

Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.

In the same way that a powerful medicine cures an illness, so illness itself is a medicine to cure passion. And there is much profit of soul in bearing illness quietly and giving thanks to God.

Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them.

Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses.

The things that are done in the name of the shareholder are, to me, as terrifying as the things that are done - dare I say it - in the name of God.

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

The extraordinary business does not require good management.

In seeking to serve social needs because it makes good business sense to do so, a corporation is doing what it knows how to do best.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

It's a good thing Doom 3 is selling very well.

Paying your employees well is not only the right thing to do but it makes for good business.

You must never throw away things that are worth good money.

Despite their good intentions, today's businesses are missing an opportunity to integrate social responsibility and day-to-day business objectives - to do good and make money simultaneously.

Screwing business as usual fundamentally recognises that doing good is good for business.

What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

Take advantage of little sufferings even more than of great ones. God considers not so much what we suffer as how we suffer. . . Turn everything to profit as the grocer does in his shop.