#Profit Quotes

“Profit is a blessing, if it's not stolen.”

“A right judgment draws us a profit from all things we see .”

“It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.”

“Good profits simply are not inconsistent with good behavior.”

“Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.”

“When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.”

“Look for companies with high profit margins.”

“The difference in the profit and loss is usually ... do not quit.”

“Money goes out first to pay expenses and then comes back as profits later - if at all. The high rate of failure of new businesses makes painfully clear that there is nothing inevitable about the money coming back.”

“To the economically illiterate, if some company makes a million dollars in profit, this means that their products cost a million dollars more than they would have without profits. It never occurs to such people that these products might cost several million dollars more without the incentives to be efficient created by the prospect of profits.”

“The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.”

“Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.”

“The man who holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare.”

“To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.”

“Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.”

“Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.”

“(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss”

“Marketing and innovation make money. Everything else is a cost.”

“The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business.”

“Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.”

“Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don't have enough of it, you're out of the game. But if you think your life is about breathing, you're really missing something.”

“The concept of profit maximization is, in fact, meaningless.”

“There are only two things in a business that make money - innovation and marketing, everything else is cost.”

“Inside an organization there are only cost centers. The only profit center is a customer whose check has not bounced.”

“Profit is not a cause but a result-”

“Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity”

“The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life.”

“There are too few rich and too few profits.”

“Business success isn't just a selfish aim. Profits spread beyond those who make them and bring jobs and prosperity.”

“Moments are the elements of profit”

“So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.”

“Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs.”

“The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent.”

“When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.”

“In speaking of the capitalists who strive only for profit, only to get rich, I do not want to say that these are the most worthless people capable of doing nothing else. Many of them undoubtedly possess great organising talent, which I would not dream of denying. We Soviet people learn a lot from the capitalists. But if you mean people who are prepared to reconstruct the world, of course you will not be able to find them in the ranks of those who faithfully serve the cause of profit. ..The capitalist is riveted in profit and nothing can tear him away from it.”

“An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits”

“Profits are better than wages.”

“There are two key lessons: a) The only way to survive in business is to be profitable, unless you have an unlimited amount of money; b) Get through your difficulty and learn to do better next time.”

“Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it.”

“A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.”

“Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence.”

“Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product.”

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

“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.”

“Minicars produce miniprofits.”

“Show me who makes a profit from war, and I'll show you how to stop the war.”

“The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.”

“It is not the mere study of the Law, but to become eminent in the profession of it, which is to yield honor and profit.”

“Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.”

“Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.”