Quotes About Profit

Increasingly, I'm inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a profit.

Giving builds loyal customers and turns those customers into supporters... You can find passion and profit and meaning all at once, right now.

By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefront ads, magazine covers or TV shows, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today's girls.

The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

It breaks even. We lose ten, twenty grand every year. But then the people who are working say, Look, I'll kick this back in, I don't need to take this profit share. It's very cooperative.

At IMVU, the cost of customer acquisition through our five-dollar-a-day AdWords campaign was less than twenty-five cents. Our revenue from those same customers was more than a dollar.

When you start a movie... when it's a short, people don't care... but when it's a feature they want money.

Private citizens and companies are always seen as evil and greedy, because they want to profit. But the government picks your pocket any chance it can get, but they're never called greedy.

When people don't want 'em, when they profit from the division, however, be it politically or financially, that's when I abhor it.

Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit.

I know that the fantastic amount of profit that people want to make on anything is damaging. And that none of us seem able to resist it.

I don't think most people would want me to have a business relationship as a senator where my business partners can reap the benefit of my position and I one day get the share the profits.

A city built upon mud; A culture built upon profit; Free speech nipped in the bud, The minority always guilty. Why should I want to go back To you, Ireland, my Ireland?

When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through.

Whenever I see people getting a bad deal I want to step in and do something about it. Of course, this is not pure altruism - there's a profit to be made too.

Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

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.

When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it.

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?