Profit Quotes

Why just order a pizza, when you can get a restraining order for the delivery guys, make them come to you, sue them, and get all the profit?

~ Will Advise

When you think of the amount of turnover and profit made by most companies in this country - and especially the big chains, it's a shame that they pay their employees minimum wage and no more than that. What that really says is: 'We're paying you minimum wage, because we're not allowed to pay you any less.

~ Christina Engela

A lie is more profitable than the truth. That is why we have elections.

~ Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade. We are selling bread at the price of jewels... Let us take the profit, the private economic profit, out of medicine, and purify our profession of rapacious individualism... Let us say to the people not 'How much have you got?' but 'How best can we serve you?

~ Norman Bethune

For what is socialism? With the frills removed, it is people collectively running society. Instead of being the prisoners of anarchic capitalist competition and the mad rush for profit at any cost, it is working together for the common good. Our tremendous co-operative power would be controlled, not by a ruling class in the search for ever greater profits, but democratically and for the fulfillment of human need.

~ Alex Callinicos

Work neither for fame nor profit. An artist should aspire only to inspire.

~ Hayden Pearton

By saying that human issues are more important than non-human issues, that violence to humans is more relevant than violence to animals, one forgets that the animal liberation movement implies a message of peace for every being on earth and the opposition against the mindset of oppression. To make a distinction between one violence and another is exactly the root of all violence: Some wouldn't do any harm to those who share with them a flag, a religion, a language, etc. but would easily condemn to suffering and death those who are different. This tragic use of diversity as an excuse to inflict pain on others for a matter of profit and convenience is the cause of suffering for both human and non-human animals.

~ Mango Wodzak

Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.

~ Kevin Mitnick

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

~ W. Edwards Deming

So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn't making - let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year.

~ Donald Trump

A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.

~ Marvin Bower

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

~ Ambrose Bierce

Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.

~ Carlos Ghosn

Never argue with a profit.

~ Jeff Rich

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

~ George Orwell

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

~ Paul Valéry

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

~ Thomas Hobbes

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

~ Elizabeth Hardwick

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

~ Richard Rogers

Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance.

~ Henry Rollins

There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.

~ Daniel Bernoulli

All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.

~ Sam Walton

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

~ Woody Allen

The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

~ Lincoln Steffens

The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not.

~ Eric C. Anderson

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

~ Sophocles

I never lost money by turning a profit.

~ Bernard Baruch

Profit or perish... There are only two ways to make money: increase sales and decrease costs.

~ Fred Deluca

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

~ Bernard Baruch

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

~ Wilson Mizner

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It's more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society.

~ Jimmy Reid

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

~ Lajos Kossuth