Quotes About Profit

There are a lot of leaders that talk about ending things like oppression - whether it's discrimination or getting a job - but the reason for all of this stuff is somebody's making a profit off our backs. That's the reason why black people were brought here in the first place. It was a profit motive.

I could have easily doubled my profit and made two records out of 'Among the Leaves', but the songs represented a certain period, and it made sense to get it out there as one piece.

When designing algorithms as a business owner, your incentive is your profit, something for your business, it's not an incentive to maximise something for the individual.

I never understood how, when if so many businesses can make a profit delivering services and products to state education, you could not take it further and allow for-profit operators to run some schools. Most people care about good outcomes, not whether something is for-profit or not.

I always make sure my film benefits my producer and earns him a profit.

Millennials want to work for organizations that prioritize purpose as well as profit. It's as simple as that.

The things I learned from my parents, what was deeply ingrained in their generation, is this idea of opportunity and the freedom to have an opportunity. The way the United States was thought of is as a place you can have this chance to do anything, to say, 'This is my idea, and I get to offer it to you, and if you like it, I can profit from it.'

Black markets exist any time there is a profit to be made.

Even a cursory run through American history shows exceptionalism has been used to justify bloodshed, oppression, and profit.

The way I see EDM right now, it's a healthy industry for sure - minimal work for maximum profit.

For eight years at West Ham, I made a profit. And I kept them in the Premier League. Took them into Europe.

Multiplex cinema culture has created a level-playing field for directors where small budget movies are able to break even, even make profit.

Airport expansion is just one example of how our planet is being plundered for profit.

If someone is doing that, saving the customer money, is making a profit so bad?

If there's any profit to be had in Nashville-Underground, it's very long term. We're not about money, which gives us an edge over the labels.

You don't have to have the capitalistic profit motive philosophy.

I'm in constant battle with MTV to see where the line falls. You know, the things I do and say and the things they profit on and the things I profit on.

If you want to grow a business, you want to make profit. Only then it is good business.

People will sell you out for profit, that's just how people are.

On our profit margins, honestly on all our products, anything we work on in in the industry, I do not touch it unless it is double digits.

Not everybody's actions are based on ideas. Some people's actions are based on profit.

It must operate at a profit. You can't have any structure, especially not a long-term one, that does not have under it a firm financial foundation that can ensure its longevity.

The chance to profit from corruption is why many authoritarian leaders seize and cling to power.

In general, you don't want competitors to understand your business outside of telling people your revenue and profitability numbers.