Quotes About Profit

It is substantially a proposition," concluded the two Northern Democrats and three Republicans, who signed the Minority Report on the bill, "to build this road and the branches on Government credit without making them the property of the Government when built. If there be any profit, the corporations may take it; if there be loss, the Government must bear it.

those for whom war is lucrative are rarely satiated.

In my experience, those for whom war is lucrative are rarely satisfied. For them, war is opportunity, not hardship or sorrow. After all, it is rarely their sons who lie in unmarked graves on foreign soil.

But part of what makes social media insidious is that the companies that profit from your attention have succeeded with a masterful marking coup: convincing our culture that if you don't use their products you might miss out.

Compulsive use, in this context, is not the result of a character flaw, but instead the realization of a massively profitable business

Compulsive use, in this context, is not the result of a character flaw, but instead the realization of a massively profitable business plan.

Facebook'un bugün iki milyardan fazla kullan?c?s? var ve 500 milyar dolarl?k piyasa de?eriyle ABD'nin en de?erli be?inci ?irketi. Öte yandan petrol ve do?algaz ?irketi ExxonMobil'in de?eriyse yakla??k 370 milyar dolar. Anla??lan Facebook ve Google gibi ?irketlerin temel kayna?? olan insan dakikalar?n? toplamak, petrol ç?karmaktan çok daha kârl? bir i? art?k.

They are programming people," Harris says. "There's always this narrative that technology's neutral. And it's up to us to choose how we use it. This is just not true—" "Technology is not neutral?" Cooper interrupts. "It's not neutral. They want you to use it in particular ways and for long periods of time. Because that's how they make their money.

This is why clutter is dangerous. It's easy to be seduced by the small amounts of profit offered by the latest app or service, but then forget its cost in terms of the most important resource we possess: the minutes of our life.

It's not neutral. They want you to use it in particular ways and for long periods of time. Because that's how they make their money.

This is why it's not uncommon to see a company fire unproductive clients. If 80 percent of their profits come from 20 percent of their clients, then they make more money by redirecting the energy from low-revenue clients to better service the small number of lucrative contracts—each hour spent on the latter returns more revenue than each hour spent on the former.

balance this profit against the costs measured in terms of "your life." How much of your time and attention, he would ask, must be

sacrificed to earn the small profit of occasional connections and new ideas that is earned by cultivating a significant presence on Twitter?

I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.

Platforms can bootstrap their networks by issuing a token with an additional value proposition in the network. Users can keep the token and deploy it in the context of the network or sell it for a profit. Either way, employing tokens in a platform usually increases activity.

It was not that "slave trade profits" flowed through some fiendish channels into the dark satanic mills. But the burgeoning Atlantic trade of the eighteenth century derived its value from the products of slave labor and would have been much diminished in the absence of slavery. As sugar became an item of common consumption in Britain, the sugar trade provided a powerful stimulus for a diverse range of occupations and ancillary activities, especially in London.

I have made believe so long that now I am quite sincere in my conviction that we can see pretty much whatever we look for; which should prove the desirability of searching for amusement and profit rather than for boredom and disillusion.

It's difficult to overstate the enormity of this problem—it affects every organization, independent of the industry we operate in, the size of our organization, whether we are profit or non-profit. Now more than ever, how technology work is managed and performed predicts whether our organizations will win in the marketplace, or even survive.

War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.

A major shock at the wrong time can lead to their demise. Younger companies, which are buffered against this by an initial capital endowment, become particularly vulnerable once this initial infusion is expended if they are unable to turn a significant profit. This is sometimes referred to as the liability of adolescence.

Soothsayers make a better living in the world than truthsayers.

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.

It's them that take advantage that get advantage i' this world.

I class the principle of moral feeling under that of happiness, because every empirical interest promises to contribute to our well-being by the agreeableness that a thing affords, whether profit be regarded.