Quotes About Profit

Knowledge is power. The more knowledge, expertise, and connections you have, the easier it is for you to make a profit at the game of your choice.

Money is the seed of money.

You can profit by disappointment - if it is turned into inspirational dissatisfaction with a positive mental attitude.

Do not tend to hire only people who see what you see. Such a tendency may lead to a decline in operating profit, and even bankruptcy.

CRM is rather boring in itself. It's the fortunes you can build using CRM that makes it so interesting.

Whether through blind luck or sound business sense, Blum ended up buying the whole set of soup cans for $1,000, paying $100 per month till it was paid off. In 1999 he sold them to the Museum of Modern Art for $7 million in cash and a $7 million tax deduction.

Time is Priceless, we only get it one Time, use it usefully for togetherness, profit and Happiness.

Hedge funds have made massive leveraged credit bets, knowing that their upside is billions in fees and their downside is millions in fees.

Non-whites promote diversity because they profit from it. It increases their opportunities at the expense of whites.

Selling something only to steal it back to sell again is not only dishonest, but highly profitable.

A business without a path to profit isn't a business, it's a hobby.

What's our market share? Don't know, don't care. It's irrelevant. Do we have enough customers paying us enough money to cover our costs and generate a profit? Yes. Is that number increasing every year? Yes. That's good enough for us. Doesn't matter if we're 2 percent of the market or 4 percent or 75 percent. What matters is that we have a healthy business with sound economics that work for us. Costs under control, profitable sales.

Without profit, something is always on fire. When companies talk about burn rates, two things are burning: money and people. One you're burning up, one you're burning out.

You wind up building what investors want instead of what customers want.

In business, too many people obsess over tools, software tricks, scaling issues, fancy office space, lavish furniture, and other frivolities instead of what really matters. And what really matters is how to actually get customers and make money.

A business without a path to profit isn't a business, it's a hobby.

Act like an actual business and you'll have a much better shot at succeeding.

You can't expect people to think and act like owners," he said, "unless they understand how what they do creates economic value. And when people are taught how they not only create economic value but that it's constantly measured and evaluated and that they stand to share in the profits, then thinking and acting like the owner becomes very easy.

Goldman Sachs and other investment banks understood the ensuing problem so well that they began betting against the very mortgage-backed securities they were underwriting!

It is the law of wealth that such people only profit from the money that is taken from them.

The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious belief in lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to have us continue to believe as they wished us to believe.

Always remember this, Henri. Men trade for profit. They are driven by greed. But debt is about fear, and fear is stronger than greed. The true power, the weapon that defeats all others, is debt. Fools search for gold. The wise man studies debt. That is the key to all business.

Never try to sell at the top. It isn't wise. Sell after a reaction if there is no rally.

No, sir, nobody can make big money on what someone else tells him to do.