Quotes About Profit

At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'.

Our country and all the other socialist countries want peace; so do the peoples of all the countries of the world. The only ones who crave war and do not want peace are certain monopoly capitalist groups in a handful of imperialist countries that depend on aggression for their profits.

After a while the business end of writing takes too much of the writing time. Better to pay someone ten percent and find that you're still more than ten percent ahead in the end. Which is true. My present agent says that he always feels that a good agent during the course of a year should earn back for his client at least the ten percent he takes by way of commission, so the client's really nothing out. And what he should ideally do is make him more money than the ten percent.

Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.

Our number one objective is to make a profit so we can hit our number one priority - which is to help people be all they can be.

I have been making footprints in the dust and glitter of the virtual universe. It never occurred to me that, like the medusa, technology stares back and that its gaze might have petrified me, made me fearful to come down, down to Earth, where all the hard stuff happens, down to the check-out tills and the barcodes and the too many words for profit and the not enough words for pain.

Business is other people's money.

When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!

If you keep your eye on the profit, you're going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.

Knowledge born from actual experience is the answer to why one profits; lack of it is the reason one loses

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Never take your eyes off the cash flow because it's the life blood of business.

I put &pound150 000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back &pound1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.

we don't make money when we sell things. We make money when we help customers make purchasing decisions.

The clock in the kitchen chimed and Anna looked up. The first batch of cookies would be ready any moment; then it would be time to put it in another tray. After that, there were four different types of bread, krumkaker (she wouldn't fill them with cream in this heat), and at least two spice cakes to make. Her mother hated the idea of her baking cakes that might not sell ("The ingredients cost money"), but Anna knew people would want them, and they made a tidy profit off cakes. It was a win-win.

You see, everything is fine so long as you make money by it." These last words seemed to freeze the serious men. The conversation dropped flat, and each appeared to avoid his neighbour's eyes.

You know something, Fowl? You did a good thing here. For its own sake. Not one penny of profit." Artemis grimaced. "I know! I'm appalled!

Our problem is not to trace the emergence of a world market, of a sufficiently active class of private entrepreneurs, or even (in England) of a state dedicated to the proposition that the maximization of private profit was the foundation of government policy...By the 1780s we can take the existence of all these for granted...

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

Give your ears, hear the sayings, Give your heart to understand them; It profits to put them in your heart; Woe to him who neglects them!

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

Signori, i pinguini sono malcontenti del nuovo regime, perché, anche se ne traggono profitto, è naturale per gli uomini lamentarsi della propria condizione.

Every idiot invests in Internet bookkeeping and software firms these days. That's how you can earn millions on companies that aren't earning a cent of profit," McCaine said. "But when you get down to the essence of it then only things like energy, raw materials, food, and water have true value.

In human resource management, an employee who brings in one point three times what he costs is worth his money. In other words an actual yield of thirty percent!