My wife and I decided to try and kick start our kitchens to a $15 minimum wage for cooks. I’ve probably had to go through and raise every menu price now by 50 cents because it took away my profit. I just underestimated what it was going to cost.
To realize President Obama’s vision of opportunity for all, it’s all about making the right match. The way we do that is through job-driven training – connecting ready-to-work Americans with ready to be-filled jobs. It helps more people secure a foothold in the middle class and helps businesses to profit and grow.
Hillary Clinton has perfected the politics of personal profit and theft. She ran the State Department like her own personal hedge fund – doing favors for oppressive regimes, and many others, in exchange for cash.
The criteria, the only rule you should follow – the only rule – is to never touch a product or service unless, every time it is sold, part of the profit has to come back to you.
While Wall Street firms typically underwrite offerings in teams, the lead underwriter, or manager, of the offering has primary responsibility for selling the offering and reaps much of the fees and profit.
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.
I started paddy cultivation not for profit.
Flexible supply chains are great for multinationals and consumers. But they erode already thin profit margins in developing-world factories and foster a pell-mell work environment in which getting the order out the door is the only thing that matters.
Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I’m not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you’re talking about greed.
We have to talk a little trash to sell fights, talk more, because we know we will profit more from that. It’s important.
Many foreign property owners work in the City of London and are encouraged to bring their expertise and earning power to this country because of the favourable capital tax environment. Attacking their property profit may encourage some to leave, but it would certainly deter others from coming in the first place.
Perhaps storytellers don’t need to care as much about the future as executives and investors do. After all, isn’t it possible that technology will enable storytellers to connect directly to their audience without the need for anyone to share the programming decisions or the profit in between? Don’t bet on it.
We, in the business world, invest our money to make a profit. Sports teams make a good profit. That’s the way the system should work, not taxpayers forking over these dollars to for-profit enterprises.
To economists, prices serve as crucial signals to producers and consumers. In a regulated market, the state sets prices high enough for private companies to cover their costs and earn a guaranteed profit for their investors. But in a deregulated market, prices should vary with demand and supply.
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
Hubspot’s leaders were not heroes but rather a pack of sales and marketing charlatans who spun a good story about magical transformation technology and got rich by selling shares in a company that still has never turned a profit.
Multiplex cinema culture has created a level-playing field for directors where small budget movies are able to break even, even make profit.
It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce.
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.
Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.
A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
For eight years at West Ham, I made a profit. And I kept them in the Premier League. Took them into Europe.
The way customers relate to brands and how profit is generated has changed so dramatically almost every professional is being challenged to reconsider what they do in order to stay relevant.
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.
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn’t be any fun living in it, or profit.
The clash between capital and labour, between those seeking to maximise profit and those with only their toil to sell, was the driving force for the creation of the trade unions in the 19th century.
The American people ask, and legitimately so, why should we carry the heavy burden to ensure international peace and stability. You also profit from it, so you should also take your share in the burden. That’s Secretary Gates’s message. I share that message.
To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants.
Airport expansion is just one example of how our planet is being plundered for profit.
We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so… we used to rotate crops back in the day and, you know, who cares if you’re going to make a profit if everybody’s too dead or glowing in the dark to be able to purchase anything.
If there’s any profit to be had in Nashville-Underground, it’s very long term. We’re not about money, which gives us an edge over the labels.
A wise person does not undertake any business with the risk of losing the capital money in search of making a profit.
I have let half-decades elapse between books because books have to be writte and writing is awful, but if you are the type of person who makes things, there is no profit in worrying about how or why or when the next project will come into being beyond simply acknowledging that it is inevitable that it will be very soon.
A hacker doesn’t deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.
Without a unified political climate of opinion, there is little or no political profit in doing the right thing.
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
We’ve done education nonprofit through our history, and maybe the profit motive will be helpful.
We buy and sell goods. We buy low and sell higher – that’s what we all do to make a profit. But I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and – very important – knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.
Unions are the result of profit seekers. Unions are the way the average guy gets even with evil corporateers. The unions are godsends. The unions have a special status, because they represent the rising up of the average man against the evil corporateers and profiteers.
What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.
We know that BP cuts safety corners, takes risks, and is unconcerned about anything other than their own profit.
There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.
Hopefully, we will become a stronger democratic society and avoid falling into xenophobia. Hopefully, we build good relationships with our neighboring countries and, rather than acting for profit for the current generation, acting in a way that will ensure we leave natural resources for future generations.
I never lost money by turning a profit.
Small business people are people with goals and values that can’t be calculated on a profit and loss statement.
Shows don’t reunite because television doesn’t work that way. There’s no profit model and people go off to do other work.
In 2008, Goldman Sachs only paid 1.1 percent of its income in taxes even though it earned a profit of $2.3 billion and received an almost $800 billion from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury Department.
Movie makers now choose profit over vision.
Several record companies had rejected my song ‘Owner of A Lonely Heart’ on the grounds it was ‘too left field.’ I never create to make a hit just to satisfy some record company executive’s quarterly profit statement.
Lawmakers must stand up for companies that choose public safety over profit margins.
I believe that the human motive to share is very powerful. The human motive to profit is also very powerful, and I think that the profit motive and the sharing motive are not exclusive.
