Quotes About Profit

Chemicals are really simple. You mix a couple things together and sell it for more than the materials cost.

Kiss is not a charity. Never, ever mix commerce and charity.

Nobody does just one thing. But the real difference between being an entrepreneur and everyone else in the world is the ability to monetize. I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold.

It's all about the money.

It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.

You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.

In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.

The industry and audience always expects filmmakers to do everything morally right. Why? We are all here to do business.

Mientras que el capitalismo tiene un coste visible —la ganancia— que no existe bajo el socialismo, el socialismo tiene un coste invisible —la ineficiencia— que es erradicado en el capitalismo a través de las pérdidas y la quiebra

financial transactions that produced both wealth and unpopularity.

While capitalism has a visible cost - profit - that does not exist under socialism, socialism has an invisible cost - inefficiency - that is eradicated under capitalism through losses and bankruptcy.

nothing happens until somebody sells something to someone.

los márgenes comerciales del café rondan el 150 por ciento; cuesta 40 centavos preparar una taza de café de máquina de un dólar, y menos de un dólar preparar un café cortado que se vende a 2,55 dólares. De

O Facebook e o Google dizem-nos que os seus objetivos são louváveis: criar uma melhor experiência para o utilizador. Mas são também empresas, e a criação de uma melhor experiência para o utilizador está estritamente ligada a outra função de aptidão: ganhar dinheiro.

Boredom is the very opposite of beauty and truth. Life has been sacrificed to profit, and the result is boredom on a massive scale.

Martin also reveals the many scientific studies that have shown the benefits of long sleeping and napping to our health and happiness, and also shows how major disasters such as Chernobyl, and smaller ones such as train and motorway crashes, were caused by lack of sleep. Chasing profit leads to lack of sleep, and lack of sleep can lead to death.

War is capitalism with the gloves off

Where was the lecture on how slavery alone catapulted the whole country from agriculture into the industrial age in two decades? White folks' hatred, their violence, was the gasoline that kept the profit motors running.

We live in a world where justice equals vengeance. Where private profit drives public policy.

Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.

tax farming is absurdly inefficient. In the first place, it discredits the state, represented in the popular mind by a grasping private profiteer. Secondly, it generates considerably less revenue than a well-administered system of government collection, if only because of the profit margin accruing to the private collector. And thirdly, you get disgruntled taxpayers.

Slavery is about money. People are enslaved to make a profit. Most slaveholders have little interest in hurting anyone, in being cruel or torturing someone; it is simply part of the job.

knowing you're smarter than somebody and you can beat them. And that, in our case, it was gonna make us some money.

And nearly all socialists, like most other Oklahomans, were devout Christians. They flocked to yearly encampments that blended a faith in Jesus with a belief in socialism. At one gathering, a preacher proclaimed, "Christ's church was a working class church" and cited the verse from Ecclesiastes that decrees "the Profit of the Earth is for all."5