Quotes About Profit

With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

While thousands of Americans die alone, Donald touts stock market gains. As my father lay dying alone, Donald went to the movies. If he can in any way profit from your death, he'll facilitate it, and then he'll ignore the fact that you died.

Pirates are the very essence of profit maximising entrepreneurs described in neoclassical economics. Yet, whilst films such as 'The Pirates of the Caribbean' and 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' have gone a long way to popularise both pirates and outlaw behaviour, the truth of the matter is that piracy is illegal, and it kills.

Everything is for sale if the price is right.

In any business opportunity, you'd be looking, probably, primarily at the risk and return. Some business can be very risky with a low return; what you want is the lowest risk with the biggest return.

The primary goal of a vendor is to make money.

Paying extra for prime placement can often pay off.

Education and health were always matters of charity. You educated children and you helped the sick because they were good things to do, not because you were going to make money out of them. If you let the money-making principle, the profit-seeking motive, anywhere near education and health, things go bad.

It's always the music first for me. But if the music isn't selling, there isn't gonna be no business. So you gotta make sure music is always the first priority.

Now that private prison companies have found that they can make a killing on mass incarceration, these private prison companies are now in the business of building detention centers for suspected illegal immigrants.

As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.

Ultimately, Bollywood producers only think of one thing: Who is saleable.

One likes at the point of production to realize the maximum value, and diamond producers are no different.

Music as a business is a dirty thing.

I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.

We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.

A lot of people love Oreos. So their manufacturer is making money. That means more dividends for shareholders.

I don't believe in flagship retail, because the definition of flagship retail is that it's a marketing expense, and it's going to lose money.

Films are getting expensive by the day. They are making more money by the day.

Because movies have gotten so expensive, and they're so expensive to market, that means that for a movie to break even or to make its money back, everybody has to go see the movie, and if everybody has to go see the movie, then it can't be about anything.

Bowls have become network-owned, commercial enterprises, in some cases, pitting average teams in money-losing bowls for the benefit of a few.

But if you look at teams that want to share more revenues, they're teams that don't have a lot on the table. They've long since not had any serious investment in their team.