Quotes About Profit

Manufacturers of food try to get the optimal ratio to tap into your impulsivity. They don't care about your health.

When the price of a drug rises, it becomes profitable and the target of new competition.

The central task for a business is to make a profit. The challenge is to make a profit by doing things which are genuinely good for people and good for societies.

My taste in films doesn't lead financers to think they are going to make a zillion dollars.

But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes.

If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money.

If you're in a situation where your effective tax rate is so much lower than any other company, then obviously you have a much better position when it comes to compete on prices and everything else.

We have always looked at taxes as a cost, just as any other cost that comes with doing business.

Business is global. Countries need to react to that; taxes need to be paid where profit arises.

I plan to lower corporate taxes to create an environment that encourages companies to invest more.

As Americans, we shouldn't like bailouts. Where I come from, if someone takes a risk and they're going to make the profit from that risk, they shouldn't have the taxpayer pay for the losses.

The first stock I bought was Tata Tea, the first stock where I made big money was also Tata Tea.

Owners own teams so that they might move them to another municipality with better luxury boxes.

In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable.

For Wales? Why Richard, it profit a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world. . . but for Wales!

As Bismarck once said, "Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others' experience.

The wise man profits more from his enemies, than a fool from his friends. (Baltasar Gracián, 1601-1658)

Si tu ingreso es bajo, seguramente tú o tu negocio no están vendiendo.

Gold standard caps inflation. If dollars are printed too quickly one can convert gold to pounds to dollars and back to gold again to make profit until the markets adjust back down. Friedman argues that gold standard hampers a government's ability to wage war. But is that a bad thing?

It's the style that gets you; technological ugliness syruped over with romantic phoniness in an effort to produce beauty and profit by people who, though stylish, don't know where to start because no one has ever told them there's such a thing as Quality in this world and it's real, not style. Quality isn't something you lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects, the cone from which the tree must start.

It's not how much money you make. It's how much money you keep.

The sophisticated investor's first question is: "How fast do I get my money back?

The business behind the business is the real game. It's the business behind the business that makes money regardless of who wins the game or which way the market goes—up or down. It's the business that sells the tickets to the game. It does not buy the tickets.

When I ask the classes I teach, "How many of you can cook a better hamburger than McDonald's?" almost all the students raise their hands. I then ask, "So if most of you can cook a better hamburger, how come McDonald's makes more money than you?