Quotes About Profit

I've always treated the music business as a business.

The commendable conduct of man is shown by his discriminate treatment of merits and sympathetic regard for pleasure and pain, profit and loss of others. The contrary course is reprehensible.

IVF is very commercial. The people doing it are among the best-paid in medicine: they charge a lot per treatment and it's not in their interest to make it more effective. Having people fail means that they come back again.

Soros has taught me that when you have tremendous conviction on a trade, you have to go for the jugular. It takes courage to be a pig. It takes courage to ride a profit with huge leverage.

We live in a society that has ever-changing values and ever-changing standards and ever-changing criteria to determine who is a superstar or not. If you want to be a superstar, if you want to main event, if you want to profit in the entertainment business, you have to go with those trends and spearhead new trends.

When a company is fairly certain of a profit margin that is substantial, it can assume responsibility for the clinical trials to develop a blockbuster drug.

Hobbies may eventually grow into a major activity that brings money

That was an important rule of any game: always make it easy for people to give you money.

I propose that the forces of corporate totalitarianism are deliberately destroying this entire world in order to sell their simulated version of it back to us at a profit.

If you have a lot of what people want and can't get, then you can supply the demand and shovel in the dough.

Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment.

Anything that has to do with money, I want to be in that business.

Toy companies aren't interested in ideology, they want to sell toys. If they would sell a toy that both boys and girls would buy, it doubles profits.

Only by using a 'structured means of control' can an organization convert high-cost controls into business-assuring, profit-enhancing control.

retail chains charge tens of thousands of dollars to place a particular candy bar in the racks near the register. Very few people, after all, head into

This, of course, is the big dance of capitalism: how to keep morality from gumming up the gears of profit, how to convince people to make bad decisions without seeing them as bad.

His clients ranged from the IRS to the mob.On one occasion the oil industry hired him to kill the inventor of a car which was fueled by depression. The moguls didn't know how to profit from such a cheap and abundant resource.

I prefer looking for properties that are more than 90 percent occupied and that just look a little rough from the outside due to poor management and neglect.

Among the most important factors to consider when determining your optimum holding period are the tax implications and how they will impact your bottom line.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

I'd spent $130 to get $1,000 worth of inventory.

The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.