Quotes About Profit

It's nice to have a game that sells a million copies.

Compensation needs to be predominately performance-driven. If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars.

We all forget that when a TV network says, 'Look, we're broke,' it means that they're not making as much money as they would like to be making. They're still making millions and millions of dollars - they're just not making billions and billions of dollars.

Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine.

You'd rather own gold; never own the miner.

Big business learned that if you stopped fighting big government, you could profit from it by killing your smaller competitors.

Love, being an extremely exacting usurer (a sense of exorbitant profit, spiritually, by an exchange of hearts, being at the bottom of pure passions, as that of exorbitant profit, bodily or materially, is at the bottom of those of lower atmosphere), every morning Oak's feelings were as sensitive as the money-market in calculations upon his chances.

granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall

Renunciation is our compact with the Muse; in it reposes our strength, our value; and life is our forbidden garden, our great temptation, to which we yield sometimes, but never to our profit.

To see how seriously men take things and yet how little their seriousness profits them. Their tragedy makes our mediocrity all the more terrible.

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church . All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

Put in different terms, profit is the price paid for efficiency. Clearly, the increase in efficiency must be greater than the profit, or else socialism would in practice have resulted in more affordable prices and greater prosperity, as its theorists hoped, but the latter never materialized in the real world.

No one likes to admit being mistaken but, under the incentives and constraints of profit and loss, there is often no choice but to reverse course before financial losses threaten bankruptcy. In politics, however, the costs of the government's mistakes are often paid by the taxpayers, while the costs of admitting mistakes are paid by elected officials.

Puesto en términos diferentes, el lucro es el precio que se paga por la eficiencia. Claramente, el incremento de la eficiencia debe ser mayor que el lucro, o de lo contrario el socialismo habría provocado, en la práctica, precios más asequibles y mayor prosperidad, como sus teóricos esperaban, pero esto último nunca se materializó en el mundo real.

Existe un motivo por el cual muchas funciones tradicionales del gobierno, como la recogida de basura, o la administración de las prisiones, han sido subcontratadas cada vez más a empresas privadas, con ánimo de lucro. Estas empresas habitualmente realizan el mismo trabajo a menor coste o con mayor calidad, o ambas cosas a la vez.

El sistema económico del libre mercado es comúnmente considerado un sistema de lucro, pero en realidad se trata de un sistema de ganancias y pérdidas, y las pérdidas son tan importantes como el lucro para la eficiencia de la economía, porque informan a los productores de lo que deben dejar de hacer, de lo que deben dejar de producir, de dónde deben dejar de asignar recursos, de en qué deben dejar de invertir.

Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper.

Scientists don't make decisions based on potential profit. What a scientist must consider foremost is which of the many available paths will lead to the greatest benefit for humanity. Even if said path, doesn't result in any personal gain, it's still the one to pick. Of course, ideally, we hope that the most beneficial path also results in personal gain.

La creatividad es inútil si no puede aplicarse. La meta para tu contenido debe ser: Esto traerá más dinero a la empresa. La vida de una empresa depende de las ventas y el flujo de efectivo. Las grandes ideas son inútiles hasta que alguien paga por ellas.

The business end of a six-gun don't pay no interest.

it's a good idea to remember that whenever there is a buy and a seller, somebody is wrong. Make sure it's not you

He accomplished this primarily by hooking up with his best friend, Henry Goldman, before the Goldman Sachs partnership. (They toyed with creating Goldman and Lehman but instead decided on splitting the profits 50/50.)

If a stock is high enough to be sold, it is high enough to be sold short," was another Sage maxim.

I view investing as a method of purchasing assets to gain profit in the form of reasonably predictable income (dividends, interest, or rentals) and /or appreciation over the long term.