Quotes About Profit

We like to get money. Whoever wants to work with us and make some money, let's do it.

I shoot an arrow into the air, where it lands I do not care: I get my arrows wholesale!

War is hugely profitable. It creates so much money because it's so easy to spend money very fast. There are huge fortunes to be made. So there is always an encouragement to promote war and keep it going, to make sure that we identify people who are 'others' whom we can legitimately make war upon.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That's why there's the old saw: location, location, location.

We make movies for the cineplex. They're designed for wide release. They're designed to be seen by a lot of people and eventually make money.

If WikiLeaks were a for-profit company, determining its real value would be a nearly impossible task.

The Fur Company may be called the exterminating medium of these wild and almost uninhabitable regions, which cupidity or the love of money alone would induce man to venture into. Where can I now go and find nature undisturbed?

To make money, it may be important to win the Academy Award, for it might mean another ten million dollars at the box office.

If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.

If you are an investor, I hope that you will stay with me for three, four, ten years. But if you ask me to make profits in ways that I have to change my allure, I won't do that. I won't lose my identity.

Goods move in response to price differences from points of low to points of higher price, the movement tending to obliterate the price difference and come to rest.

I think hard-core capitalism tends to commercialize everything.

Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.

Tennis is more commercial these days.

You know what term you don't hear anymore? Arbitrage. The markets have gotten too efficient.

American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.

What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for a given product into a commodity market, which is characterized by declining prices and profit margins, increasing competition, and lowered barriers to entry.

I think content-driven cinema is appealing in terms of even money-making.

Shell has poured billions of dollars into offshore Arctic drilling, but no matter how much it spends, it cannot make the effort anything but a terrifying gamble. And if Shell, the most profitable company on Earth, can't buy its way to safety in Alaska, nobody can.

The reason that the company decided to invest in Tesla was not to target a profit gain. We did it as a means to further a partnership between the companies.

Since the 1990's the politicians in the United States have been forcing children agencies to adhere to a twisted form of capitalism. My personal experience is that this has been slowly turning private children agencies into businesses concerned more with profit than care. It troubles me greatly.

In the early 1940s the social democratic refugee Franz Neumann argued in his classic Behemoth that a "cartel" of party, industry, army, and bureaucracy ruled Nazi Germany, held together only by "profit, power, prestige, and especially fear."1

If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.