Quotes About Profit

It netted a 4.5% revenue

Recall that Fat Tony was in favor of just "making a buck" as opposed to being "proven right.

suckers try to be right, nonsuckers try to make the buck, or: Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.

In practice, it is done by threshold, for ease of execution, not complicated rules: you start betting aggressively whenever you have a profit, never when you have a deficit, as if a switch was turned on or off. This method is practiced by probably every single trader who has survived.

it did not so much judge the quality of a trader's performance as encourage him to game the system by working for short-term profits at the expense of possible blowups—like

How frequent the profit is irrelevant; it is the magnitude of the outcome that counts.

gives me some form of advantage.

In other words, I aim at profiting from the rare event, with my asymmetric bets.

that they wouldn't advertise it so loudly if it weren't good for their bottom line.

the easier it was to make money.

because they cost more to run than the benefits they bring.

people do not realize that success consists mainly in avoiding losses, not in trying to derive profits.

There is more money in designing a shoe than in actually making it: Nike

doing what Americans had always done: profit as best they could from whatever commercial circumstances presented themselves.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

We've each given the hours of our lives in dull rote jobs for other men's profit, and have been asked to be grateful for doing that.

Not until the 1440s did they learn that the island's warm climate was better suited to another, more profitable crop: sugarcane.

Viewed in the right light, a little sprinkle of free market pixie dust can turn the drabbest of public sector services (sewerage, for example) into a rainbow-hued profit unicorn.

I have become so disgusted with the pharmaceutical industry in this country

Some are just businessmen.

We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.

Chant back to us our platitudes about democracy, greatness, and freedom. Vote in our rigged corporate elections. Send your young men and women to fight and die in useless, unwinnable wars that provide huge profits for corporations.

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

Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.