Profit Quotes - Page 34

• We like to say that India has the advantage of being a large market. We have provinces, we have the rule of law, we have a system of justice. But those are also weaknesses when compared with China. On the other hand, one of our strengths is that we are very individualistic, and as individuals we are very creative. But that, too, is a weakness, because it keeps us from working well together. Everyone thinks only about his own profit.

  Ratan Tata

  Thinking, Hands, Law

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• Now, most of the time you couldn't be too sure of the quality of the drug. Although, in my experience the stuff was always of a very high quality, because back then we didn't have business majors peddling lower-quality stuff in an effort to increase profits.

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Humor, Effort

  Lewis Black (2005). “Nothing's Sacred”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• Society has to be structured such that there are checks and balances, so that it can't be manipulated, for instance, for the profit of just some multinational company who's going to get rich on trying to legislate the environment.

  Greg Graffin

  Balance, Trying, Environment

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As trans advocacy has institutionalized and developed, the context of the undemocratic nature of US non-profits and the ways that white, wealthy individuals can intensely influence the directions of advocacy have increasingly come to the surface for trans activists.

  Dean Spade

  White, Way, Influence

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• The capitalist workplace is one of the most profoundly undemocratic institutions on the face of the Earth. Workers have no say over decisions affecting them. If workers sat on the board of directors of democratically operated self-managed enterprises, they wouldn't vote for the wildly unequal distribution of profits to benefit a few and for cutbacks for the many.

  Richard D. Wolff

  Self, Decision, Voting

  "The Progressive Interview". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.democracyatwork.info. April 10, 2014.

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• A cooperative enterprise is the key alternative to a traditional capitalist enterprise. All the workers, whatever they do inside an enterprise, have to be able to participate in collectively arriving at the decisions about what, how, where to produce, and what to do with the profits in a democratic way. One person, one vote should decide how these things are done.

  Richard D. Wolff

  Keys, Decision, Arriving

  "The Progressive Interview". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.democracyatwork.info. April 10, 2014.

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• There are any number of models artists can use to profit off of their talent and artistry. It is not up to the state to protect them from competition. Musicians can obviously get paid for performing and having their music copied and "pirated" helps them in this respect by making them more well known, more popular.

  Stephan Kinsella

  Artist, Numbers, Competition

  "Stephan Kinsella on the Logic of Libertarianism and Why Intellectual Property Doesn't Exist". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. March 18, 2012.

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• Artists are just entrepreneurs. It's up to them to figure out how or if they can make a monetary profit from their passion − from their calling, as I discussed above. Sometimes they can. Musicians can sell music, even in the face of piracy. Or they can sell their services − concerts, etc. Painters and other artists can profit in similar ways. A novelist could use kickstarter for a sequel or get paid to consult on a movie version.

  Stephan Kinsella

  Passion, Artist, Entrepreneur

  "Stephan Kinsella on the Logic of Libertarianism and Why Intellectual Property Doesn't Exist". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. March 18, 2012.

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• Drug companies should not be allowed to reap excessive profits or spend unreasonable amounts on marketing if they want to receive support that is designed to encourage life- saving and health-improving treatments.

  Hillary Clinton

  Support, Drug, Marketing

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I just think you've created an industry now, where you create the situation where very much you've created an incentive for people not just to look forward to having more abortions but being able to sell that fetal tissue for purposes - these centers - for purposes of making a profit off of it, as you've seen in some of these Planned Parenthood affiliates.

  Marco Rubio

  Thinking, People, Abortion

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Today, National Geographic has a membership side with a magazine and some television side, and they generate about a billion dollars in revenue, and they're profitable. And so at the end of the year they have some bottom line profit which they can then reinvest, because they're running it as a not-for-profit in charitable endeavors.

  Steve Case

  Running, Business, Years

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• In the early 1970s, Milton Friedman argued that corporations should not be socially responsible because they had no mandate to be; they existed to make money, not to be charitable institutions. But in the economy of the 21st century, corporations cannot be socially responsible, if social responsibility is understood to mean sacrificing profits for the sake of some perceived social good. That's because competition has become so much more intense.

  Robert Reich

  Business, Mean, Responsibility

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• If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This task is open-ended. It can never be finished. But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Effort, Challenges

  Bill Gates' Commencement Address at Harvard University in in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.harvard.edu. June 7, 2007.

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• In Hollywood everything is formatted, everything is compulsory, so therefore we have to follow the law of benefits and profit and money, let us say the law of Hollywood.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Law, Hollywood, Benefits

  Source: www.filmuforia.co.uk

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• We will introduce an electric car by 2015. It will be a completely new vehicle concept for mega-cities. We would also have it developed if, contrary to expectations, it did not turn a profit in its first life cycle.

  Norbert Reithofer

  Cities, Expectations, Car

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• The oil companies are really making a very lucrative amount of profit from the high price of oil. I don't that they're very keen to reduce the price of oil. The consumers are those who are the victims so I think that the producers, the governments, some of them, they're enjoying the high revenue that they get.

  Ahmed Zaki Yamani

  Thinking, Government, Oil

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• We welcome private investment, but any company or national firm will be a partner of a venture where the result will go mainly to the Bolivian people. Of course, any investor is entitled to recover their investment and take profits. But be assured that these new functions with our partners will also be reinvested in our country for the benefit of the Bolivian people.

  Evo Morales

  Country, People, Benefits

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. September 22, 2010.

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• Some suffer much from poverty and sickness, but are not humbled, and so they suffer without profit. But one who is humbled will be happy in all circumstances, because the Lord is his riches and joy, and all people will wonder at the beauty of his soul.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• If you are a local church or non-profit, you live and die with volunteers.

  Andy Stanley

  Leadership, Christian, Volunteer

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• The solutions the non-profits are trying to provide aren't keeping pace with the problems they're trying to survive.

  Jeff Henderson

  Leadership, Christian, Trying

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• Non-profit organizations think like non-profit organizations. That's the problem.

  Jeff Henderson

  Leadership, Christian, Thinking

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• For profits think, "We've got to find that finest talent available, pay them what they're worth, and put them into their daily solutions. " Apply the Who to the What.

  Jeff Henderson

  Leadership, Christian, Thinking

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• Non-profits find the very best Who and put them on their Boards because they don't want to pay them.

  Jeff Henderson

  Leadership, Christian, Boards

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• Put First Things First! These four words cover an entire philosophy which can be applied with profit by every business leader, by every executive and by every employee.

  Thomas Watson, Jr.

  Leadership, Business, Philosophy

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• All outward means of grace, if separate from the spirit of God, cannot profit, or conduce, in any degree, either to the knowledge or love of God. All outward things, unless he work in them and by them, are in vain.

  John Wesley

  Mean, Grace, Degrees

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