Top 252 Profit Quotes

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

Even before the expansion of slave labor in the South and into the West, slavery was already an important source of northern profit, as was the already exploding slave trade in the Caribbean and South America. Banks capitalized the slave trade, and insurance companies underwrote it.

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.

In bypassing barriers between different classes, maturities, rating categories, debt seniority levels and so on, credit derivatives are creating enormous opportunities to exploit and profit from associated discontinuities in the pricing of credit risk.

You can’t have a healthy society unless you have healthy companies that are making a profit, that are employing people and that are growing.

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

On our profit margins, honestly on all our products, anything we work on in in the industry, I do not touch it unless it is double digits.

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

Black markets exist any time there is a profit to be made.

Lots of people have plenty of ideas; lots of people have plenty of money, but in the end, if you want to turn that money into profit, you have to do it through others.

Capitalism has been interpreted as an exclusively profit-centric human engagement. Some have been saying to bring people and planet into the picture. This can be a good change, but it is still not fully operationalized. Are you putting people, planet and profit at the same level?

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.

Banks need to continue to lend to creditworthy borrowers to earn a profit and remain strong.

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

Chasing profits and building a long-term profit model are two different things.

My properties are very good income-producing buildings, so I will have a very good stream of profit even if I can’t sell.

Beauty – what is beauty, forsooth? Form and color; that is, surface only. Fortune – what is fortune? Nothing is ever a pleasure or a real profit to him who has to labour for it. Truth – you die in the pursuit, and the sea beats the beach as it did a thousand years ago. The stolid are alone happy.

I think right now the jury is out on where and how much profit is available in the consumer electronics industry, because if you look at the current consumer electronics players, the biggest ones on the planet struggle to make profit consistently.

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.

Profit or loss is not guaranteed. That depends on the consumer and depends on the product. That’s a risk that business people take.

We are washed both on coming into the world and on going out of it, and we take no pleasure from the first washing nor any profit from the last.

We are fighting a Labour Party whose avowed enemy is capitalist bosses, whose instinct is to see income as a common pool resource, and whose leading figures find profit morally repugnant.

We do not exploit our dolphins for profit.

There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit.

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

We do not always need to think in terms of business or profit.

Soros has taught me that when you have tremendous conviction on a trade, you have to go for the jugular. It takes courage to be a pig. It takes courage to ride a profit with huge leverage.

Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.

Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

There’s nothing better for my interests and talents than combining math and sports for profit.

No one can sustain rage for long. I am still angry and always will be. My dear son was stolen from me and his family to never return. He was killed for profit and lies. How can I not be angry? Sometimes though, the rage comes back.

I’ve had such a great track record in making a huge profit when the movies are smaller.

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the ‘genius’ of the personage, the greater the profit.

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth’s treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.

Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities.

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.

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

The basis of the free market is anytime you can generate revenue or profit, you’ve created value in excess of the resources you consume in a society. That’s probably the most unbiased utility function there is, as opposed to someone’s opinion.

Even a cursory run through American history shows exceptionalism has been used to justify bloodshed, oppression, and profit.

I think I have the best house in the world. I thank God to have it. I thank God that I finished it. And I hope that I will live enough to take profit of it.

When a culture is broken, the cracks show – morale is weakened, but so is profit and performance. That’s why culture has to be at the core of any business transformation.

The plundering for profit of the world’s natural resources has threatened the very sustainability of the planet.

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

Politicians can either keep listening to a small number of polluting fossil fuel companies, who’re keen to profit from keeping us hooked on oil, coal and gas, or they can listen to the majority of other voices from civil society to business calling for an urgent switch to low and zero carbon heat and power.

A movie that costs only $1.6 million doesn’t have to be a cultural event to turn a profit.

I’m in constant battle with MTV to see where the line falls. You know, the things I do and say and the things they profit on and the things I profit on.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

I always make sure my film benefits my producer and earns him a profit.

The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn’t make a profit, it’s invalid, and art doesn’t make a profit in that sense.

Trickle-down economics doesn’t work, but we need the power and innovation that comes from the free enterprise system. There’s no way we’re going to decarbonize the American economy without innovation and the profit motive. It’s just not gonna happen.

Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.

Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.

Here’s the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone’s going to profit from it, more than you control it.

When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we’ll do it again.

I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based.

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

When I first started out and would go on pitch meetings, there was always this kind of eye-roll that would come with pitching a horror movie when you were dealing with the studios. Unless it was viewed as a cheap product that could turn a lot of profit, there wasn’t a lot of interest in making it good.

While Trump, and, yes, Biden spend time with wealthy donors, Warren refuses big money. She also refused to participate in a Fox News town hall, wanting nothing to do with what she calls Fox’s ‘hate for profit’ business plan. She is unafraid to name her enemies.

There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man’s making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands.