Profit Quotations

The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not.

There are several things that can create an alpha - stock buybacks are one. High dividend yields are another, especially nowadays because the stock market yields more than the banks and the tenure treasury. But by and large, it tends to be companies with a strong cash flow, rising sales, accelerated earnings, a profit margin expansion.

Pirates are the very essence of profit maximising entrepreneurs described in neoclassical economics. Yet, whilst films such as 'The Pirates of the Caribbean' and 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' have gone a long way to popularise both pirates and outlaw behaviour, the truth of the matter is that piracy is illegal, and it kills.

Our health care system squanders money because it is designed to react to emergencies. Homeless shelters, hospital emergency rooms, jails, prisons - these are expensive and ineffective ways to intervene and there are people who clearly profit from this cycle of continued suffering.

So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit who just so happens to be a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, we want that same consideration.

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.

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.

The Profit and Loss Statement tells you a lot about how your business is doing. It can also help you to determine ways that you can go about saving money so that you get to bring more money home! Basically, the P&L statement measures all of your income sources verses all your business expenses for any given period of time.

I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.

By definition startups usually do not turn a profit.

Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can wreak havoc on their quality of life and economic viability. When natural disasters strike, we must do all we can to assist the backbone of our economy.

One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

Broadcast TV is still the mothership and it will be for the foreseeable future. Audiences may be declining slightly but revenues are going up and profits are going up.

Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.

Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!

Obesity is awesome from a Wall Street perspective. It's not just one disease - there are all sorts of related diseases to profit from.

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.

Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins.

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.

For business owners, there are many important documents to learn to read. One of the most important is the profit and loss statement, known as the P&L, and the balance sheet.

Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent.

There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.

A hacker doesnt deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

Tobacco is the only industry that produces products to make huge profits and at the same time damage the health and kill their consumers.

We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

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.

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.

The best way to invest corporate profits is to give them to the employees.

I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.

The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

I dismiss personal profit and focus exclusively on people and planet. That's what I call social business: a nondividend company dedicated to solving human problems. You can go all the way, forgetting about personal profit, being single-minded about solving problems. The company makes profit, but profit stays with the company.

Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.

We must take the profit out of war.

Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.

Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula. Lifetime value is the net present value of the profit stream of a customer.

Hollywood is going to have to find a way of meeting those profit goals.

Our people get profit-sharing checks. I got a report the other day that says that 84 percent of our people participate in our stock purchase program, where they can buy stock at a 15 percent discount.

It's no surprise companies that quickly grow in value attract those who may want to also profit from the hard work of others.

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.

You know, my background, I was at a non-profit for years.

Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.

The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.

We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good.

An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made.

Giving builds loyal customers and turns those customers into supporters... You can find passion and profit and meaning all at once, right now.

For a long time, the for-profit world has told us in the not-for-profit sector to behave more like businesses.

Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No.

My memories are of my dad taking me to football on Saturday mornings, and my mum taking me swimming. Those are the things I remember from my childhood, not sitting around the table debating capitalism and the profit squeeze.

I've always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had always been rapping.

Business people do two things with their time fundamentally. The first is that they try to create sales, right? Revenue, key to business. But the other thing they devote their time to equally is cost containment. That is to say, how to not create jobs. Because the fewer jobs you can create for the revenue you create, the more profit you make.

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.

Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.

Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.

While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.

There is no excuse for keeping wild animals in amusement parks or circuses. Until our governments take action, we should avoid supporting places where captive wild animals perform for our amusement. If the public will not pay to see them, the businesses that profit from keeping animals captive will not be able to continue.

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

Kickstarter isn't a profit center, it's an organizer and an instigator.

My parents are from north London, and so it's not like I'm some Yank who wants to make a profit out of football. I don't care about making money. I just want to see Spurs succeed and, if I can help, that's great.

I've had such a great track record in making a huge profit when the movies are smaller.

I never lost money by turning a profit.

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

Capitalism has been interpreted as an exclusively profit-centric human engagement. Some have been saying to bring people and planet into the picture. This can be a good change, but it is still not fully operationalized. Are you putting people, planet and profit at the same level?

The profit orientation is only one orientation of a person. The same people who are interested in profit-making are also selfless. I am not saying that capitalist theory is wrong. I am saying that it has not been interpreted and practiced fully.

Mitt Romney understands the private sector, he understands how profit is created, and he isn't embarrassed by it.

Love works not for profit nor reward; yet God has ordained that great gain shall be the certain result of every labor of love.

In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.

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.

It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.

The biggest profit center for investment banks is the hefty fees they charge for underwriting stock offerings and giving financial advice, and analysts put those profits at risk if they publish negative conclusions about the companies that pay the fees.

Wal-Mart uses technology to increase sales volume, but the more it does so, the more it drives down profit margins - its own and everybody else's. The same logic does not appear to hold for Goldman Sachs.

The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.

More student-athletes would be able to travel and to dress on the field, and it would give institutions the ability to bring more people along for the playoffs and for the title game. Making a profit is an individual institutional decision, but our motivation is to help them not spend as much money and be able to celebrate the event. This will hopefully allow people to do that.

One of the most important benefits of having a pharmacy at the health center is financial. With a pharmacy, we can buy in bulk and dispense medications at usually a much lower cost, saving our students, faculty and staff money and still make a small profit for the university.

One of the porn industry?s major marketing tools for making that enormous profit is e-mail. And many of the e-mails they send are hitting the in-boxes of children and teens.

One of the central characteristics of this entire global recovery is the outsized impact of these new economies. That's one of the reasons why growth has remained strong in the U.S. and profit trends have been remained positive, so if there is any inkling that we are at the front end of slowing that down, that's going to make a dramatic difference.

On the negative side the outlook was that economic conditions are slowing and there are a few sectors that are making some divisions a bit softer...and that's translating through to the likely profit result.

On the economic front, deflation is hurting companies. Mall traffic across the U.S. is down for the last 21 months, there's a lack of fashion newness out there. The average price that teens are paying for an item is down, and it's difficult to see profit pick up in 2003.

I would characterize this as a correction long in coming. We're coming off of this tremendous run, plus you've got oil prices near all-time highs and the prospect of higher interest rates through the end of the year, and so you're seeing some profit taking.

Nintendo is probably going to wait to revise its forecasts until early April after it knows for sure what the effect of foreign exchange rates will be on recurring and net profit in the fourth quarter.

When the international prices rise, we expect the government to cut its share of profit and its revenue earnings and share the burden of the increase with the common man.

One positive is that S&P earnings so far have looked better than the year-earlier period. Granted, comparisons are a lot easier as companies take less write-offs, but it's still something that's encouraging. I don't think we're going to have a big profit recovery, but we'll have the appearance of improvement.

Online retailers were very successful in attracting early holiday shoppers by offering incentives such as free shipping and discounts. However low prices may end up hurting Web merchants' profit margins in the long run.

Online trading is a high-cost business that lends itself to more consolidation going forward, ... And that will have a big impact on giving E-Trade more opportunity to improve its profit margins.

One little pit stop in a Formula 500 race. It's just profit taking.

Monday was a very big day but the market is volatile and I guess there was some profit taking but industrials and some insurers are stable.

Money is very tight right now, ... You can't go to a bank and ask for a commercial loan if you don't have a business to show them, no profit and loss statements because you're not doing any business.

More than likely, 20% of your customer base is contributing 150% to 200% of total annualized profit (TAP); 70% is breaking even; and 10% is costing you 50% to 100% of TAP.

No one knows what the market will look like next year and a profit warning from Intel does not bode well.