Quotes About Profit

I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

Thrift of time will repay you in afterlife, with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams; waste of it will make you dwindle, alike in intellectual and moral stature, beyond your darkest reckoning.

He profits most who serves best.

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

If the risk-reward ratio is right, you can make big money buying trouble.

To get profit without risk, experience without danger and reward without work is as impossible as it is to live without being born.

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.

The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

Xhex, that half-breed symphath female who looked like she performed castrations for fun and profit.

Traders focus almost entirely on where to enter a trade. In reality, the entry size is often more important than the entry price

it's not about being right; it's about making money.

Given the typical fee structures of hedge funds, they need to do something different to make money in a consistent way.

A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.

My shareholders expect me to make the most profit. That's the ugly, dirty truth.

Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.

In the worst of our recession, bars were making money. Every bar can make money. If they're failing, it's not because of the president or Congress or Ukraine. It's because of them. And if you own failure, then you'll own success.

I think no matter how you think about your music, you're ultimately in the music 'business.' I think you have to be business-minded in some sense. And for me, the real goal... is positive intention and social change through music. It doesn't mean that can't turn a profit.

Sometimes it takes longer to create value, but if the companies generate more earnings, the stocks will ultimately reflect that.

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments.

I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.

Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.

To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it.

Industry of war is the industry of shame