While they believe the pursuit of profit is important to sustaining a business, millennials also say that pursuit must be accompanied by a sense of purpose, by efforts to create innovative products or services, and, above all, by consideration of individuals as employees and members of society.
After the success of ‘Smokey,’ my profit participation only went up on future movies I directed.
‘Profit’ was an intriguing fellow that couldn’t be approached as a villain or a hero. The challenge in hanging a show on a character like Jim Profit was that we knew that we were in for a rough reception.
Basically, the big studios and companies distributing your movie just take a big cut of profit for making posters.
I don’t run a non-profit. There are lots of non-profits in America – in Detroit, parts of Wall Street, etc. I run a not for profit. We’re a business. The only difference is that instead of selling soap or sneakers, we sell hope and leadership.
It’s not necessary that every film has to hit Rs 100 crore box office, or the Rs 50 crore budget. If the film makes double of its project budget, we consider that a hit, and that also means that the film is in profit.
Why can’t modern tech companies both grow and turn a profit at the same time?
We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.
Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don’t merely dream – but create!
What will it profit this country if we… put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can’t walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence?
Social business lies in the spectrum of possibility between the traditional, profit-maximizing business, which directs little to no profit to doing good, and the traditional charity, which relies mostly on donations to sustain itself.
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction.
South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
I’ve never used ethnic music as decoration for profit.
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.
Continuing down a path where profit is king is unsustainable for our society, our health and our planet.
You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let’s not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
When I was at university in Birmingham, I used to spend half my grant betting on horse racing. Seven terms out of nine, I made a profit.
Is it possible to run a big industrial corporation in a benevolent fashion? We see these days that even the hippest companies hide some rotten practices to make their profit margins work.
If you create something, you don’t want someone else to go and profit from it; you have your right to make a living and everything. So I respect copyright. What I don’t respect is copyright extremism. And I what I don’t respect is a business model that encourages piracy.
Some government expenditure actually makes a profit. Our theatre leads the world. Loads of tourists must be attracted by the fact that you could spend a week in London doing nothing but visit superb museums and galleries, free.
Be true to yourself, and, um, don’t worry about some large companies’ quarterly profit index.
Trump’s foundation has done nothing. Its board is packed with relatives, and he’s going to use his presidency to sell himself and his brand and profit personally for himself and his family.
If you want to grow a business, you want to make profit. Only then it is good business.
Not only in Africa but in much of the world, most leaders’ pockets are lined by industrial business. And industrial business is never going to stop aiming at profit.
It must operate at a profit. You can’t have any structure, especially not a long-term one, that does not have under it a firm financial foundation that can ensure its longevity.
We must take the profit out of war.
Look, it makes sense to be able to take part of what you’ve earned in this life and have it grow. And I hope that other musicians out there that do have their moments of profit and of success are wise enough not to squander those profits and that success.
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
You can’t live if you don’t eat, but you don’t live to eat. And neither does business exist primarily to make a profit. It exists to fulfill its purpose, whatever that might be.
It should be a crime to make a profit off somebody being sick.
For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that’s what they are – they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
Anybody can leverage celebrity for profit.
I’ve always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had always been rapping.
Many rogue sites exist to make a profit and others are enormously expensive to maintain. If they don’t have the resources to continue stealing intellectual property, they’ll wither away.
Companies figured out that the easiest way to make money was to reissue records that the accounting department had paid for years ago and already made a profit.
Steampunk, the repurposing of Victorian culture and technology for contemporary fun and profit, is so ubiquitous – in media, books, fashion, music, cosplay, and maker culture – that we tend to imagine its superficial aspects are all that define it.
The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.
The Republicans and Democrats profit from war and sickness.
They’re out there, this appalling idea that there are companies that profit – not just profit but profit enormously – through war.
Conservatives frequently complain of being frozen out of the culture industry, though, like all industries, the culture industry will produce or sell anything it expects to profit from.
That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.
Amazon has suffered quarters-long profit droughts. Alphabet has given its investors agita over profligate spending on non-core products. Microsoft’s growth – if not its profit engine – stalled for years, causing its stock to idle, too.
It’s just unfortunate that a network only makes their profit off of live viewership because their hands are tied by advertisers. They may believe in the show and want it to continue, but they just unfortunately can’t afford it.
It’s a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.
So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.
How do we take the bad out of fracking? How do you contain the water? How do we make a profit out of that? Get there early.
What to do with a leading business that’s challenged by a new technology wave without hurting an existing profit stream? The single greatest example of recent memory is Apple’s willingness to decimate iPod sales by incorporating all the category-defining product’s features into a new gizmo, the iPhone.
I am falsely accused, without proof, of using my position for personal profit. Many who accuse me have lifestyles and spending habits that make them walking proofs of that crime.
I think canceling a game that is making a profit, along with destroying jobs and an online community, is entirely unethical.
I like to bring people together so we don’t waste opportunities and resources and keep doing the wrong things when we know better. Corporate America makes great things and things that can hurt us. They have to be part of the solutions. There’s nothing to say you don’t make a profit by doing good.
‘Profit’ in my mind is as good as television gets, and if that didn’t make it, all bets are off on really predicting what’s going to work and what’s not.
For me, the focus has to be on the individual, the worker, not on profit margins, not on stock returns, but on how do we have a wonderful community in the State of Vermont that has good jobs that keep our kids here and keeps our communities healthy.
