Quotes About Profit

People should only profit to the extent they make other peoples lives better.

It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up.

So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.

The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.

Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.

Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year.

Hollywood is going to have to find a way of meeting those profit goals.

I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit.

We buy and sell goods. We buy low and sell higher - that's what we all do to make a profit. But I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.

The chief executive officer is also the chief sales officer. He or she is responsible for the success of the company and making a profit. The closer the CEO is to the everyday selling process, bringing in business, the more successful the company will become.

A movie that costs only $1.6 million doesn't have to be a cultural event to turn a profit.

The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.

We need to take excellent care of our customers, and do so at a profit.

So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn't making - let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year.

Shows don't reunite because television doesn't work that way. There's no profit model and people go off to do other work.

They're out there, this appalling idea that there are companies that profit - not just profit but profit enormously - through war.

To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants.

What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.

People who get to express their voice are paid by the people who make profit from it. So they're going to make you believe you have to spend your money buying these products otherwise you won't be happy. This is really wrong. Especially the implication it carries.

Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good response from the audience. No matter how many awards you win, if you can't earn any profit from your movie, if the audience doesn't like it, then it doesn't matter how many awards you get.

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

How do we take the bad out of fracking? How do you contain the water? How do we make a profit out of that? Get there early.

I think there's plenty of room for blogs that exist to pay the blogger, or blogs that exist to turn a profit. That's just not the kind of blog I'm writing, and I'm not the kind of blogger that could do that.

Legitimate profit is good. What's bad is profiteering.