Profit Quotes
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If you look around at America, that's one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
Seneca the Younger
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Without a unified political climate of opinion, there is little or no political profit in doing the right thing.
William A. Dembski
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Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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The UN is but a long-range, international banking apparatus clearly set up for financial and economic profit by a small group of powerful One-World revolutionaries, hungry for profit and power.
Curtis Bean Dall
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
Sophocles
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Like the vast majority of my constituents, I continue to be concerned about record profits reported by petroleum companies at a time when consumers are paying record high prices for gasoline.
Mike Rogers
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The difference in the profit and loss is usually ... do not quit.
Walt Disney
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Why don't these companies making big profits just pay people better than $14 an hour? It's kind of simple. When you're making record profits, why not? I don't get it.
Mika Brzezinski
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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.
George Grosz
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Truly visionary and successful companies have discovered that there is no conflict between the pursuit of profit and having a pursuit beyond profit.
David Maister
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I consciously chose a person like the bounty killer of the Fistful trilogy because he was the street sweeper of the desert, a man who put his life at risk exclusively for the money. I'm not saying that he went against the law, but he put himself within the wings of the law only when it was something that he could profit by.
Sergio Leone
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Do we ask what profit the little bird hopes for in singing?
Johannes Kepler
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It was my duty to have loved the highest; It surely was my profit had I known: It would have been my pleasure had I seen. We needs must love the highest when we see it, Not Lancelot, nor another.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit.
Austin Ligon
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The culture around here is much less cutthroat than it is in, say, Silicon Valley, or even within the non-profit culture in D.C.
Ethan Zuckerman
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My properties are very good income-producing buildings, so I will have a very good stream of profit even if I can't sell.
Harry Triguboff
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You must find something you want to live for that's bigger than yourself - a mission - whether it's your children, a business, a non-profit, whatever. That pulls you to achieve, which is far more sustainable than to push yourself to. You can only push yourself for so long.
Anthony Robbins
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The marketing department uses many advanced techniques to match products and buyers in a way that mximizes profits. For example, they give away keychains.
Scott Adams
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In actual fact, it is the State, i.e., the taxpayer who has become responsible to private enterprise. In Fascist Italy the State pays for the blunders of private enterprise Profit is private and individual. Loss is public and social.
Gaetano Salvemini
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The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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Personally I do not believe in the likelihood of Persian oil deposits being worked at profit.
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
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There is a huge body of business evidence now showing that energy savings give better service at lower cost with higher profit. We have to tear down barriers to successful markets and we have to create incentives to enter them.
Bill Clinton