Profit Quotes
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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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Obviously the best way to retain the most profit is to not give any of it away. That's something that you certainly learn through the years.
John Petrucci
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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
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The public, as a whole, buys at the wrong time and sells at the wrong time. The average operator, when he sees two or three points profit, takes it; but, if a stock goes against him two or three points, he holds on waiting for the price to recover, with oftentimes, the result of seeing a loss of two or three points run into a loss of ten points.
Charles Dow
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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 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.
Moses Mendelssohn
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You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse
William Shakespeare
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The profit zone is the area of your economic neighborhood where you are allowed to earn a profit. To reach and operate in the profit zone is the goal of every company.
Adrian Slywotzky
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A Movie That Costs Only $1.6 Million Doesn't Have to Be a Cultural Event to Turn a Profit.
Steven Soderbergh
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Even the best data security systems can't protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information.
Melissa Bean
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In capitalism, profit does not come out of another man's hardship; it comes out of new production of new wealth that's never existed before.
Andrew Joseph Galambos
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In not-for-profit theater, you don't worry so much about how the audience is going to react. You want to make them absorb the piece.
Stephen Sondheim
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I'm not going to let the government make a profit out of lending money for people to go to college. So we're going to really change this. I see it as an investment, not an expense, and I'm going to treat it that way.
Hillary Clinton
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I will always come back to do Australian films. I think it matters. I think we can make films that people go and see. And I don't think it's too much to ask that films in this country make a profit and that we embrace them.
Josh Lawson
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Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.
Russell Baker
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Hard Day's Night was one of those great films that will never happen again to anyone in their lifetime. UA were in profit before we'd even finished shooting - The advance sales on the album - the film was out before the album was out was more than it cost UA to make the film.
Richard Lester
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Nothing is more difficult than to make a profit.
James Cook
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Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The monarchy continued this tradition, and it migrated to America as soon as there was profit to be had.
Andrew Napolitano
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Amateurs go broke taking large losses, professionals go broke taking small profits.
William Eckhardt
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If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month.But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing.
Edwin Lefevre
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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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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.
Norman Braman