Profits Quotes

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
Henry Ford

Business, Service, Worry

We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.
Barack Obama

Greed, Country, Special

Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.
Ray Davies

Money, Tired, Corruption

What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they're learned to do more with less, and so they don't hire.
Barack Obama

Learned, Big, High

He has committed the crime who profits by it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Crime, Committed

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.
Noam Chomsky

Good, Political, Everyone

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

Integrity, Before, Line

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
Smedley Butler

War, Lives, Dollars

Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
Angela Davis

Work, Black, Racism

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

Business, End, Words

For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It is time to end the injustice where ordinary people are silent witnesses, left to suffer without basic services, as the profits from their countries' assets are hidden and plundered by corrupt regimes.
Nick Clegg

Time, End, Long

When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.
Steven Spielberg

War, Down, Happen

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

Goes, Esteemed, Sausages

He only profits from praise who values criticism.
Heinrich Heine

Criticism, Values, Praise

Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.
Michael Badnarik

Money, Pay, Market

Through their own actions, customers can hold companies responsible to higher standards of social responsibility. Through collective action, they can leverage their dollars to combat the force of those investors who myopically pursue profits at the expense of the rest of society.
Simon Mainwaring

Society, Through, Social

Done correctly, everyone from individual speakers to large organizations can inspire citizens and customers to spread a message using their own social channels, and in so doing, inspire countless supporters to build their reputation, profits and social impact.
Simon Mainwaring

Done, Everyone, Social

It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world.
Simon Mainwaring

Change, Time, Government

The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.
James Lovelock

Power, Put, Nuclear

Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins.
Lope de Vega

Exchange, Treasures

Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
John Milton

Nothing, Grounded

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
Bono

Government, Two, Nation

Look around. Oil companies guzzle down the billions in profits. Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries, and Wall Street CEOs, the same ones the direct our economy and destroyed millions of jobs still strut around Congress, no shame, demanding favors, and acting like we should thank them. Does anyone here have a problem with that?
Elizabeth Warren

Down, Same, Problem

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

Away, Journalism, Theory

Like the vast majority of my constituents, I continue to be concerned about record profits reported by petroleum companies at a time when consumers are paying record high prices for gasoline.
Mike Rogers

Time, High, Concerned

Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.
James Buchan

Business, Interest, Higher

You know, I've got experiences going back to the wage price controls in the Nixon administration where, in effect, we had what I think was a terrible mistake, in that case a Republican administration, where moved in and tried to control the wages, prices and profits of every enterprise in America. It was a huge mistake.
Dick Cheney

Control, America, Republican

Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.
Mark Cuban

Family, Good, Game

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.
Paul Samuelson

United, Logic, Works

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.
Hesiod

Confidence, Him, Poor

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