Quotes About Profit

Commerce is like war; its result is patent. Do you make money or do you not make it? There is as little appeal from figures as from battle.

The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.

The brightest light has cast the deepest shadows. To torture and enslave, not because it brings profit to the victor, but because it brings pain to the vanquished, has, through long ages, been deemed a fitting sequel to victories born of the most heroic courage and the noblest self-sacrifice; while no small part of moral progress has consisted in expelling this perverted altruism from the accepted ideals of civilized mankind.

Every communication from God, whether relative to the moral or physical world is evidently designed for our profit in the state where such communication is made. This improvement of the moral and religious state of man was the evident design of the revelation of God, and to this agree all the prophets.

Let us leave hearts out of the question. Business is business, and business is not carried on with sentimentality like romances.

in order to grab on to those tiny profits people studiously adopt another perspective, keeping their true opinions to themselves, and no one takes responsibility, everyone just huddles together on some middle ground, and it all gets less and less clear, yet in the end everyone ends up being crammed into a rigid, unyielding framework. I've seen the same story play out over and over again. But

From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of 8,000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.

BRITAIN'S SELF-INTEREST as regards her empire on the American continent in the 18th century was clearly to maintain her sovereignty, and for every reason of trade, peace and profit to maintain it with the goodwill and by the voluntary desire of the colonies.

The man whose tender sensibility of conscience and strict regard to the rules of morality makes him scrupulous and fearful of offending, is often heard to complain of the disadvantages he lies under in every path of honor and profit.

The only chance for a guy like me is to make a decent picture for a reasonable budget. If it brings in a profit for investors, maybe I'll have the opportunity to make something else.

The moment somebody is making money off the recipes, that's when you'll see digital rights management around it.

Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.

The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective.

The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.

We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money.

Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.

Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.

Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.

College players make money for the colleges. You think they spend all that recruiting money to get the best students? Come on.

Manipulating the bond market is so greatly reducing the cost of capital that so far companies have been able to maintain profit margins without raising prices. As a result, we've been exchanging capital cost for commodity costs but you can only do that for so long.

I have a hard time with businesses that don't make money at some point.

If all we wanted to do was to make money on PC hardware, that wouldn't be a good business model.

In the free-to-play industry, the most money-making games are often coming from making people fighting against each other and really hating each other and wanting to revenge, so they spend more money to dominate.

Business is about making money but it is also about having fun, so get your character across.