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Quotes About Profit

1. Never give anything away for nothing. 2. Never give more than you have to (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). 3. Always take back everything if you possibly can.
~ William Seward Burroughs
No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en;In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
~ William Shakespeare
Study is like the heaven's glorious sun,That will not be deep-search'd with saucy looks;Small have continual plodders ever won,Save base authority from others' books.These earthly godfathers of heaven's lightsThat give a name to every fixed star,Have no more profit of their shining nightsThan those that walk and wot not what they are.
~ William Shakespeare
I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.
~ Willie Nelson
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
~ Wilson Mizner
The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss.
~ Winston Churchill
The film studios learned to our dismay but to their pleasure that if they spent $200 million making a film they could make half a billion on it. So they were not interested anymore in quality films.... They can't afford to be that risky at those prices. Consequently you're getting a lot of remakes, sequels, dopey comedies full of toilet jokes.
~ Woody Allen
If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.
~ Woody Allen
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.
~ Xun Zi
Do you think it childish to use a set of written principles to guide the management of an advertising agency? I can only tell you that mine have proved invaluable in keeping a complicated enterprise on course. Profit
~ David Ogilvy
Investing is "the act of committing money or capital to an endeavor (a business, project, real estate, etc.) with the expectation of obtaining an additional income or profit. Investing can also include the amount of time you put into the study of a prospective company, especially since time is money." I
~ David Schneider
me make it clear, if you buy an asset and it's costing you money to maintain it - it is not an investment! There
~ David Schneider
real estate is cheap and offers great rental yields, they buy real estate.
~ David Schneider
One stock in the group of 30 stocks disappointed and showed up as a loss, but others had gone up to 100%, 200%, and even up to 500%. Mr.
~ David Schneider
At the risk of repeating myself, every investor's goal is to buy an investment at a low price and then sell it at a higher price. Buy low and sell high! The one thing that always keeps you from accomplishing this simple mission is yourself, not because making the purchase or sale is difficult to find out or to accomplish.
~ David Schneider
The way we've set up corporations, even a majority vote of stockholders cannot demand that a corporation's policies reflect the public good or preserve the environment for future use. That's because profit is the one and only motive. It's up to government and it's up to people to protect the public interest. Corporations are simply not allowed to.
~ David Suzuki
A balance between sustainable ecology and sustainable human life, on the one hand, and the unfettered drive for profit, on the other, is just an oxymoron.
~ David Suzuki
The ultimate profit from all of my businesses is to be happy and to make all of the customers happy.
~ Debasish Mridha
The only intelligence investing is value investing...to acquire more than one is paying for.
~ Charlie Munger
Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.
~ Kevin Mitnick
A Sales Professional To significantly increase sales, expand market share, and provide unparalleled levels of customer service to contribute to organizational growth and profit objectives
~ Jay A. Block
Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Hook up with us and see a quick return on your premiums.' I like it, Sammy. Think we can fit it on a bumper sticker? (Dean)
~ Jeff Mariotte
So this is the goal: To make money by increasing net profit, while simultaneously increasing return on investment, and simultaneously increasing cash flow.
~ Eliyahu M. Goldratt