Quotes About Profit

A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

We have a system that's really founded on profit and on selling pharmaceuticals as opposed to keeping people healthy and then helping them get back to health.

There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit.

We should be worrying about Wall Street - run health care.

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves

Any damn fool can build homes. What counts is how many you can sell for how little.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit.

It is not the mere study of the Law, but to become eminent in the profession of it, which is to yield honor and profit.

Instead of hoping he must fear and instead of fearing he must hope. He must fear that his loss may develop into a much bigger loss, and hope that his profit may become a big profit.

Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.

If we remove the hope of profit as a means to alleviate misfortune - poverty, illness, misery, disaster - we shall increase our misfortunes and make them permanent.

Poverty is curable, but it's just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.

If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

Take some advice from an old farmer. You're in business now. Take the money. You'd be amazed at how many don't want to pay.

There's no such thing as business ethics; there's just ethics. And ethics makes no concessions for the real or imagined necessities of making a profit.

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

The ability to sell is the number one skill in business. If you cannot sell, don't bother thinking about becoming a business owner.

Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product.