Quotes About Profit

When something brings profit or pleasure to us, we are inclined to call evil good, even if we know it is dead wrong.

What shall it profit a man, if he . . . gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" (Mark 8:36).

Our personalities, our intelligence, and our capabilities are gifts from [God's] own bountiful hand. If we divert their use for our own profit, we become guilty of selfishness.

Our promise was to deliver value before profit, ...

Público y coste. Debe delimitar el tono, el público al que se dirige y el coste aproximado, para que los compradores sepan si puede dar beneficios.

follow the money

be successful over the long term, the company has to have and maintain: (1) steady gross margins that it protects; (2) a healthy balance sheet, as reflected in the current, cash-to-debt, and debt-to-equity ratios, among other measures; and (3) a sound business model governing how the company delivers value to customers and earns a profit in the process.

The first question should be, 'Does it serve? Does it add value to others?' If the answer to that question is yes, then you can go ahead and ask, 'Does it make money?

but the point isn't to have them pay you more, it's to give them more. You give, give, give. Why?" Another shrug. "Because you love to. It's not a strategy, it's a way of life. And when you do," he added with a big grin, "then very, very profitable things begin to happen.

profit is the by-product of a successful enterprise not its raison d'être.

Apple necessarily must pay the workers producing the iPods less money than they gain from the labor of that particular worker. In this, we see the basic profit motive of capital.

Conscious Capitalism,

The idea was always that someone would be allowed to make a profit as an intermediary. The key question is: Who will get to be that middleman?"7

didn't understand that his business was to sell books, not trash them. "We saw it very differently," Bezos said. "When I read that letter, I thought, we don't make money when we sell things. We make money when we help customers make purchase decisions."5

Existem dois tipos de vendedores: os que trabalham para descobrir como cobrar mais e os que trabalham para descobrir como cobrar menos, e nós seremos o segundo, ponto final",

Bezos said. "When I read that letter, I thought, we don't make money when we sell things. We make money when we help customers make

Create the problem—then monetize the solution.

Once a guy starts using a wig, he has to keep using one. It's, like, his fate. That's why wig makers make such huge profits. I hate to say it, but they're like drug dealers.

The profit lure of mass production obviously has a place in the plans and strategy of business management, but it must always follow hard thinking about the customer.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

Nothing wrong with making money.

I like to bring people together so we don't waste opportunities and resources and keep doing the wrong things when we know better. Corporate America makes great things and things that can hurt us. They have to be part of the solutions. There's nothing to say you don't make a profit by doing good.

WWE always thinks in a business mindset.

Put two Yankees in a room together, and in an hour they will each have gained ten dollars from the other.