Quotes About Profit

We have so many films that we can fit into the slate a year, and we spend $100 million on those films in order to make $400 million dollars. We don't spend $20 million in hopes of eking out $40 million.

If what you want is actual change, then what has to be built is a mass movement that is militant and can use direct action to slow or stop profit. A movement that can do that can demand whatever it wants.

Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.

A small business can survive for a while without making a profit, but if its cashflow dries up, the impact is fatal.

A restaurant, a small business lives day-by-day. If they're lucky they can make maybe up to 5% profit. That's not a lot.

If the small government concept grows, we have fewer dollars leaving our pockets, we have more folks motivated to make a profit.

Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.

Smart companies fail because they do everything right. They cater to high-profit-margin customers and ignore the low end of the market, where disruptive innovations emerge from.

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.

This leaves companies like General Mills and McDonald's with two options if they hope to grow faster than the population: figure out how to get people to spend more money for the same three-quarters of a ton of food, or entice them to actually eat more than that. The two strategies are not mutually exclusive, of course, and the food industry energetically pursues them both at the same time.

Clients who understand the return on investment you offer will jump at the chance to work with you. To

Wars and war rumors sold a lot of soap these days.

A "businessman," meanwhile, was not just a craftsman who made goods or a merchant who traded them, but a more fluid kind of capitalist, constantly finding new ways to turn a profit.

Social responsibility is a fundamentally subversive doctrine in a free society, and have said that in such a society, there is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

Locate an evil, and you'll find the love of money at or near the root of it.

So when you do board, the first class people, they're sitting there. A lot of them are working as your boarding. They have computers out and calculators. They're looking up at you like, Hey, we're making money right now! Right now we're making money.

At every stage, public debate over alternative economic plans and policies would be essential. In this way, what and how we produce could be determined by social need rather than private profit. Under capitalism, we are deprived of the power to decide whether we want to produce more hospitals or more breakfast cereals. Under socialism, this freedom would be regularly exercised.

Decided to put aside ethnic differences in the cause of making more money.

This bias may be at the root of all other biases. Yet being right has little to do with making money.

The bankers got the free use of the money a part of the time, the brokers another part: the officials made money, and the brokers received a fat commission.

What people forget is that every movie that gets made keeps making money for somebody FOREVER.

Everyone knows that if you can keep on making money, everyone's happy.

The label does what's good for the label. Always.

The business of a label is to make money - my business is to make music. I'm gonna get paid if I do it right.