Quotes About Profit

The bathhouses weren't open because the owners didn't understand they were spreading death. They understood that. The bathhouses were open because they were still making money.

have always thought there might be a lot of cash in starting a religion.   —GEORGE ORWELL, 1938

As a nation, we've gone pill crazy, but we've been shoved into that state by pharmaceutical companies looking to tap our wallets. They're the drug cartels of the new millennium, and they've made doctors the new pushers.

The agreement gave me 1.9 percent of the gross sales from franchisees. I had proposed 2 percent. The McDonalds said, "No, no, no! If you tell a franchisee you are going to take two percent, he'll balk. It sounds too full and rounded. Make it one and nine-tenths, and it sounds like a lot less." So I humored them on that one. The brothers were to get .5 percent out of my 1.9 percent. This seemed fair enough, and it was.

This was the beginning of real income for McDonald's. Harry devised a formula for the monthly payments being made by our operators that paid our own mortgage and other expenses plus a profit.

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

It's very difficult to run a business when you're buying something for $5 and selling it for $10.

Returns matter a lot. It's our capital.

I have yet to take capital losses on any company. Then again, it's still early.

Wealth management businesses are capital light businesses.

The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.

Capitalism doesn't care about sentimentality.

The whole thing is, really, money makes money. That's the whole thing about capitalism. Without the capital, there is no -ism.

I see myself as a bit of a capitalist really - I like enterprise and making money.

Business is business. I don't manufacture cars, but we do manufacture money.

That's just the way the cards fall in the UFC. It's about what's going to make them the most money. It's not about what makes the most sense.

The NFL cares about one thing, and that's the NFL. That's the bottom line.

Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us.

If I knew what makes a movie catch on then I'd make hit after hit.

It's called showbusiness, and the business end of it is very important, especially now. You have to learn the business end of it; otherwise, you get ripped off left, right and centre.

Whether you stay private or go public, after all is said and done, a CEO's job is to create lasting shareholder value.

You never put the title on somebody to get them over. What you do is you take your championship and put it on the guy that's the most over, that's the reason, because that guy is ready to draw you money.

Chasing revenues that don't have good earnings doesn't help us or shareholders one lick.

Nobody loses money on my movies. I make them cheap.