Profit Quotes - page 4

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. (Hesiod)
It seems to me that today, if the artist wishes to be serious - to cut out a little original niche for himself, or at least preserve his own innocence of personality - he must once more sink himself in solitude. There is too much talk and gossip; pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profit; in order to do anything at all we need (so to speak) the wit and ideas of our neighbors as much as the businessmen need the funds of others to win on the market. All this traffic sharpens our intelligence and falsifies our judgment. View quote
Edgar Degas
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it. View quote
Warren Buffett
The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth. View quote
Warren Buffett
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! View quote
Robert Collier
When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war. View quote
Len Deighton
...the perception of potential threats to survival may be much more important in determining behavior than the perceptions of potential profits, so that profit maximization is not really the driving force. It is fear of loss rather than hope of gain that limits our behavior. View quote
Kenneth Boulding
Death can only be profitable: there's no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a grave for hundreds or thousands of years, if you count it up the profit turns out to be enormous. View quote
Anton Chekhov
At this late stage in the history of American capitalism I'm not sure I know how much testimony still needs to be presented to establish the relation between profit and theft. View quote
Lewis H. Lapham
We, ignorant of ourselves Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good so find we profit By losing of our prayers. View quote
William Shakespeare
See what the world looks like from orbit. Well, in that way, at least, there was profit to be had. Nobody could look down at the planet, green and blue, with no borders in evidence and no sign of human habitation, and not get his perspective forever altered. (Jack McDevitt)
When profits are pursued by geographic interchange of goods, so that commerce for profit becomes the central mechanism of the system, we usually call it "commercial capitalism." In such a system goods are conveyed from ares where they are more common (and therefore cheaper) to areas where they are less common (and therefore less cheap). This process leads to regional specialization and to division of labor, both in agricultural production and in handicrafts. View quote
Carroll Quigley
Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production. View quote
Joseph Schumpeter
The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss. View quote
Winston Churchill
Profit is not a cause but a result. View quote
Peter Drucker
Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the freedom and equality of the individual in a free and open society. Marxism expects this society to result from the abolition of private profit. Capitalism expects the free and equal society to result from the enthronement of private profit as supreme ruler of social behavior... View quote
Peter Drucker
Titles of property, for instance railway shares, may change hands every day, and their owner may make a profit by their sale even in foreign countries, so that titles to property are exportable, although the railway itself is not. View quote
Karl Marx
Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
What the English call "comfortable” is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries go on for ever. Hence the new want is not so much a want of those who have it directly, but is created by those who hope to make profit from it. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before. View quote
Adam Smith
We live increasingly in a system in which little direct attention is paid to the object, the function, the program, the task, the need; but immense attention to the role, the procedure, prestige, and profit. (Paul Goodman)
Antony ... used to say that it behooved a man to give all his time to his soul rather than his body, yet to grant a short space to the body through its necessities; but all the more earnestly to give up the whole remainder to the soul and seek its profit, that it might not be dragged down by the pleasures of the body, but, on the contrary, the body might be in subjection to the soul. View quote
Athanasius of Alexandria
Why does anyone commit murder?' he asked in a low voice. 'I-'I blinked.'How should I know?' 'Three reasons,' Christopher said. He held up one finger. 'Love.' Another finger. 'Revenge.' And finally, a third finger. 'Profit... View quote
Meg Cabot
Growth and profit are a product of how people work together. View quote
Ricardo Semler
Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation. View quote
Ricardo Semler