Quotes About Profit

She finds herself suspicious of religious zeal that has a business plan.

Well, even if we had the money, and even if solar power were a social good, it's not a planetary good. And that's the point. Industrial solar energy doesn't help the world. It's just another way to power industrial capitalism. At root, it's an industrial product designed and built in the global capitalist marketplace to make a profit. Like other products, it leaves behind the wreckage of destroyed land, poisoned water, and devastated communities.

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

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

It's show business. No show, no business.

But in Venezuela, as in America, it is quite possible for "public servants" to become very rich. In fact, it is hard to name any prominent figure on the Venezuelan left, as on the American left, who hasn't profited handsomely from their politics. Apparently they all came to do good and stayed to do very well.

Although the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti would not begin showing a profit until 1959, it was still considered the standard-bearer of great Burgundy, a property that never cut corners or sacrificed quality for the sake of making money.

The French had another name for them: the weinführers. Their job as Beauftragter für den Weinimport Frankreich (agents for importing wines from France) was to buy as much good French wine as possible and send it back to Germany, where it would be resold internationally for a huge profit to help pay for the Third Reich's war.

Los gilipollas de la Asociación Nacional del Rifle te dirán que «no matan las armas, sino las personas». Sí, piensa Malone, las personas que van armadas. (...) Ellos esgrimen la Segunda Enmienda y los derechos individuales, pero es una cuestión de dinero. Los fabricantes de armas, que suponen el grueso de la financiación de la ANR, quieren vender armas y ganar pasta. Fin de la puta historia.

The key idea is that product and project attributes that have economic value should be quantified using a standardized and useful unit of measure: life-cycle profit impact.

Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don't have enough of it, you're out of the game. But if you think your life is about breathing, you're really missing something.

Be upright in thy whole life; be content in all its changes;so shalt thou make thy profit out of all occurrences; so shall everything that happeneth unto thee be the source of praise

Amway gets people into a new life of excitement, promise, profit, and hope.

And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made.

Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.

Porsche made more money last year from selling almost 190,000 cars than its parent company, Volkswagen, made from selling more than 4.5 million.

He asks, "how hard would it be to go a week without Google? Or, to up the ante, without Facebook, Amazon, Skype, Twitter, Apple, eBay, and Google?"33 Wu is putting his finger on a disquieting new reality—that the new communication medium a younger generation gravitated to because of its promise of openness, transparency, and deep social collaboration masks another persona more concerned with ringing up profit by advancing a networked Commons.

Don't have any opinions. They're bad for business.

If you have timed the movement correctly, your first commitment will show you a profit at the start.

If you have timed the movement correctly, your first commitment will show you a profit at the start. From then on, all that is required of you is to be alert, watching for the appearance of the danger signal to tell you to step aside and convert paper profits into real money.

Old Baron Rothschild's recipe for wealth winning applies with greater force than ever to speculation. Somebody asked him if making money in the Bourse was not a very difficult matter and he replied that, on the contrary, he thought that it was very easy… "I will tell you my secret if you wish. It is this: I never buy at the bottom and I always sell too soon.

The reason producers make stupid movies is because there are stupid people who will pay to see them.

The idea that one can build peace while encouraging the striving for possession and profit is an illusion, and a dangerous one, because it deprives people of recognizing that they are confronted with a clear alternative: either a radical change of their character or the perpetuity of war.

The having mode of existence, the attitude centered on property and profit, necessarily produces the desire—indeed the need—for power.