Profit Quotes

• Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.

  Tony Hsieh

  Great Business, Good Business, Missions

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• 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!

  Robert Collier

  Life, Motivational, Dream

  Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.423, Simon and Schuster

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• Profit is like oxygen, food, water, and blood for the body; they are not the point of life, but without them, there is no life.

  James C. Collins

  Oxygen, Blood, Water

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• Profit isn't a purpose, it's a result. To have purpose means the things we do are of real value to others.

  Simon Sinek

  Real, Mean, Purpose

  Twitter post from Jun 27, 2013

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• In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.

  Starhawk

  Sacrifice, Self, Culture

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• I believe in God... but I don't believe in religion. Religion is used to manipulate and punish. Used in a thousand ways for profit for even in the church, money is still the 'real' God.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Real, Believe, Church

  Virginia C. Andrews (1984). “Seeds of yesterday”, Pocket

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• Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation, and sadness. And our public life lies in shambles, shot through with icy cynicism and paralyzing pessimism. To put it bluntly, beneath the record-breaking stock markets on Wall Street and bipartisan budget-balancing deals in the White House lurk ominous clouds of despair across this nation.

  Cornel West

  Wall, Loneliness, Lying

  Cornel West (1998). “Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America”, G K Hall & Company

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• Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their losses…in effect, they tax you for their accidents, bungling, boondoggles, and mismanagement, just like a government. We should be able to deselect them.

  Ralph Nader

  Loss, Government, Able

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• In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.

  Lee Iacocca

  Business, Work, People

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.176, Bantam

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• 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.

  Henry Ford

  Running, Courage, Trying

  "How to live long and prosper" by Simon Caulkin, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2002.

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• When you see someone who has turned his passion into a profit, ask yourself, ‘Why not me?

  Donny Deutsch

  Passion, Why Not, Asks

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• Sustainability is about profit...it is the opportunity of the century

  Ben Clarke

  Business, Opportunity, Management

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• We Shall Build Good Ships Here; At A Profit If We Can, At A Loss If We Must, But Always Good Ships.

  Collis Potter Huntington

  Loss, Ships, Ifs

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• Profit is what happens when you do everything else right.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Happens

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• Your profits reflect the success of your customers.

  Ron Kaufman

  Customers

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• He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Highest

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• The promise of every product and service is a better life. Profits are the prize for delivering on the promise.

  Patrick Dixon

  Promise, Better Life, Prize

  Patrick Dixon (2005). “Building a Better Business: The Key to Future Marketing, Management and Motivation”, p.86, Profile Books

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• That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Funny, Book, Reading

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

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Happiness, Joy

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• Business is all about solving people's problems - at a profit.

  Paul Marsden

  Motivational, Business, People

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• Business is about profit, yes, and it is about more than profit. At its best, it is about expanding the possibilities of humanity.

  Jon Miller

  Humanity, Possibility, Expanding

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• If you do something for fun and create the best possible product, then the profit will come.

  Richard Branson

  Fun, Motivation, Work

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• In a capitalist system, there's a principle that if you invest, especially in a long-term risky investment, if something comes out of it, you're supposed to get the profit. It doesn't happen in our system. The taxpayer paid for it and gets nothing - assumes all of the risk, gets zero. The money goes into the pockets of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, who are ripping off decades of work in the public sector.

  Noam Chomsky

  Jobs, Zero, Long

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I still believe that workers must be the basic force which must organize and eventually transform society (along with peasants in poor countries). This is because they are the source of the profits which make capitalism what it is. They can shut the system down, and at the same time they possess the unique knowledge needed to make it work in everyone's interests.

  Michael Yates

  Country, Believe, Unique

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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

  W. Edwards Deming

  Inspirational, Business, Loyal Customers

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