Profit Quotes - Page 36

• 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.

  Adam Smith

  Complaining, Decay, Prosperity

  Adam Smith (2007). “The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.60, Harriman House Limited

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• Thus the labour of a manufacture adds, generally, to the value of the materials which he works upon, that of his own maintenance, and of his masters profits. The labour of a menial servant, on the contrary, adds to the value of nothing.

  Adam Smith

  Add, Maintenance, Masters

  Adam Smith (2007). “The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: With an introduction by Jonathan B. Wight, University of Richmond”, p.311, Harriman House Limited

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• When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.

  Adam Smith

  Errors, Ordinary, Trading

  Adam Smith (2010). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.335, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

  Voltaire

  Important Events, Atheism, Church

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• A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.

  Gene Fowler

  Money, Men, Dollars

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• The studios are making fewer films. They are making more expensive films. Profits are tougher to come by. Not only because of the expense of production. But also because of the expense of promotion and hype. To boil that all down, it's more about hype than it is about filmmaking.

  William Friedkin

  Hype, Film, Promotion

  "EXCLUSIVE: William Friedkin Revisits To Live and Die in L.A. on Blu-ray". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. February 19, 2010.

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• The key word in profiteering is profit.

  Martin Shkreli

  Keys

  "We called Martin Shkreli and asked him point blank about the drug-price scandal - here's what he said". Interview with Lydia Ramsey, www.businessinsider.com. October 13, 2015.

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• And if I lost I would have gone back to 12 weeks of vacation, because I was successful enough that I was spending much more time on non-profit boards and traveling a lot.

  John Hickenlooper

  Successful, Vacation, Boards

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• At my age, I know myself. If I make a project, it's a way to help me. I don't do it for therapeutic reasons, but I know that the therapy can be a side profit.

  Sophie Calle

  Age, Way, Sides

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Now one person doing the job of one and a half. So as an employer I can get two people to do the work of three, and think about what that does for profits.

  Nick Hanauer

  Jobs, Thinking, Two

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• Let the mouth also fast from disgraceful speeches and railings. For what does it profit if we abstain from fish and fowl and yet bite and devour our brothers and sisters? The evil speaker eats the flesh of his brother and bites the body of his neighbor.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Brother, Evil, Doe

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• Virtual business out sources all the work and in sources all the profits.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Source

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• Too many people are apt to redeem their profits too quickly. In a huge bull market they wind up with piddling profits, only to watch their former holdings soar. That usually prompts them into making mistakes later when, believing that the market owes them some money, they buy at the wrong time at much higher levels.

  Martin Zweig

  Mistake, Believe, Wind

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• To stick to the present and not let it pass without drawing some profit from it, that's what I think duty is. ...let us perservere as far as we can rather today than tomorrow.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Thinking, Drawing, Sticks

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• A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Home, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1846). “Works of Samuel Johnson”, p.385

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• I learned that sex was not a question of victory or defeat, of pleasure or profit: of a hand's manipulation and a physical response: I learned that in its purest pleasure it belongs to neither of those who practise it, in the same way as a child belongs to neither parent: it is a free spirit: it simply exists.

  Fay Weldon

  Sex, Children, Hands

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• To overcome our biological limitations as individuals, we have co-evolved collective systems and capacities - cultural, social, economic, political, scientific, media, educational, public relations, etc. But the flaw in all that is that we have designed them primarily for comfort, profit, power, control, and entertainment rather than for collective intelligence, sanity, and wisdom.

  Tom Atlee

  Educational, Media, Political

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• When I say 'serve you better,' I mean 'increase our profits.' We newspapers are very big on profits these days.

  Dave Barry

  Mean, Increase, Newspapers

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• If one is guided by profit in one's actions, one will incur much ill will.

  Confucius

  Ill Will, Action, Ifs

  Confucius (1992). “Confucius: The Analects”

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• The foundation is an instrument forged by citizens who transfer profit from the commercial sector and put it directly to work as risk capital for the general betterment of the society.

  Richard Cornuelle

  Risk, Foundation, Citizens

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• Speeches by businessmen on social responsibility...may gain them kudos in the short run. But it helps to strengthen the already too prevalent view that the pursuit of profits is wicked.... There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to...engage in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

  Milton Friedman

  Running, Responsibility, Views

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• It's important that public funds be spent in research directions that are pushing market frontiers rather than working in existing areas. This means funding research not only on drugs but also on areas like life-style changes, even if the profit potential is lower for Big Pharma as you cannot sell that change as you can sell a medicine.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Mean, Medicine, Drug

  Source: www.salon.com

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• There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Sweat, Injustice

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• I want to work with non-profits that stimulate growth to the community. Whether it is economic growth, intellectual, or freedom.

  Gbenga Akinnagbe

  Community, Intellectual, Growth

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• I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical, economic, or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty.

  Emile Durkheim

  Liberty, Economic, Forbidden

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