Quotes About Profit

The logical end point of institutional investment and diversification is the coordination of all capital to extract maximum wealth from consumers and workers.

International big business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood!

controversy creates cash.

There is a patent conflict between the need to reverse or at least to control the impact of our economy on the biosphere and the imperatives of a capitalist market: maximum continuing growth in the search for profit.

dot-com flameouts that erroneously believed that they could lose money on each customer but, as the old joke goes, make it up in volume.

Wealthy consumers cost more to reach because they tend to become more profitable customers.

El objetivo de una startup es averiguar qué debe producirse, aquello que los consumidores quieren y por lo que pagarán, tan rápidamente como sea posible.

The executives who run the fast food industry are not bad men. They are businessmen. They will sell free-range, organic, grass-fed hamburgers if you demand it. They will sell whatever sells at a profit.

Problems accumulate over a long time while few see what's happening, except the assholes who profit from the disorder. And they add fuel to the fire so gradually no one notices the decline until suddenly everything goes to shit. Then, people die. In job lots.

Users and manufacturers can apply the insights developed in this book to improve their innovation processes. In this chapter, I illustrate by showing how firms can profit by systematically searching for innovations developed

As things stand, our culture is far too critical of the individuals who eat junk foods and not critical enough about the corporations that profit from selling them. We spend a lot of time discussing unhealthy foods in terms of individual guilt and willpower and not enough looking at the morality of big food companies that have targeted some of the poorest consumers in the world with products that will make them sick, or the governments that allowed them to do so.

What you need to do is harness the self-love you are hypostasizing as offspring, as the next generation of you, and let it branch out horizontally into the possibility of a transpersonal revolutionary subject in the present and coconstruct a world in which moments can be something other than the elements of profit.

The Double Cross system was now not only self-financing but profitable, to Masterman's delight: "The actual cash supplied by the Germans to maintain their and our system between 1940 and 1945 was something in the region of £85,000"—the equivalent of more than £4.5 million today.

Professors make "profit" into a curse word. If something is bad, it must be because people are doing it purely for profit. Providing a service is only worthy if it is done altruistically. Professors ignore the fact that man is a reward-driven being and that profit is the surest incentive for hard work.

Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations they are there to make money.

He that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor,

People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers.

Buy cheap and sell dear.

When people are decent, things work out for everybody," my father instructs us. "That's been my theory all through life. If you're making money, let the other fellow make it, too.… If you can work a thing out so that everybody profits, that's the ideal business.

Everybody was being decent, and when people are decent, thing work out for everybody. That has been my theory all through life. If you're making money, let the other fellow make it too. If somebody's getting hurt, it's bad, but if you can work a thing out so that everybody profits that's the ideal business.

My expenses are largely a fixed, sunken cost, regardless of how much revenue I earn.

Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.

My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.

Trump's foundation has done nothing. Its board is packed with relatives, and he's going to use his presidency to sell himself and his brand and profit personally for himself and his family.