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Profits are better than wages. -- Jim Rohn
Profits are what you make when not working. -- Michael Pare
Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins. -- Lope de Vega
The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits -- Milton Friedman
Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity. -- David Ricardo
Bombieri's Law: of Finance: Profits are on paper, losses are in cash -- Enrico Bombieri
Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune. -- Jim Rohn
Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them. -- Alvin Toffler
Profits are part of the mechanism by which society decides what it wants to see produced. -- Henry Wallich
Business success isn't just a selfish aim. Profits spread beyond those who make them and bring jobs and prosperity. -- Margaret Thatcher
The promise of every product and service is a better life. Profits are the prize for delivering on the promise. -- Patrick Dixon
Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required. -- James Buchan
Profits are one of the most important goals of any successful business, and investors are one of the most important constituencies of public businesses. -- John Mackey
Profits are the ultimate measure of how efficiently we provide customers with the best products for their needs. Profits are required to survive and grow. -- Henry Ford II
Profits and prices are the street signs of the economy. Only fools flout them. The much-maligned price system works not only to secure supply but to conserve. -- Ilana Mercer
Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production. -- David Ricardo
Profits are the lifeblood of the economic system, the magic elixir upon which progress and all good things depend ultimately. But one man's lifeblood is another man's cancer. -- Paul Samuelson
Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins. At one time they may be carbuncle stones, then coals, then diamonds, then flint stones, then morning dew, then tears. -- James De La Vega
The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when war becomes that profitable, we're going to see more of it. -- Chalmers Johnson
Profits are the driving force of the market economy. The greater the profits, the better the needs of the consumers are supplied... He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits. -- Ludwig von Mises
Business is no longer a matter of profits alone. Profits must come through public confidence, and public confidence is given to any merchant in proportion to the service which he gives to the public. -- James Cash Penney
Trading is a waiting game. You sit, you wait, and you make a lot of money all at once. Profits come in bunches. The trick when going sideways between home runs is not to lose too much in between. -- Michael Covel
Profits should be for a purpose. Profits should be productive. You should make money for producing benefits that make the world a better place. Making money is a good thing when it is made in service to humanity or the democracy. -- Andrew Young
We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good. -- Steve Ballmer
The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state. -- Craig Benson
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
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits. -- Denis Waitley
Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right. -- John Milton
Publicly traded United States companies report sales and profits to investors every quarter. -- Alex Berenson
There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits. -- David Ricardo
In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits. -- Lee Iacocca
For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family. -- Tony Abbott
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. -- Henry Ford
The food industry profits from providing poor quality foods with poor nutritional value that people eat a lot of. -- Mark Hyman
Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product. -- Russell Baker
If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It's a process of innovation. -- Jerry Greenfield
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
The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry. -- James Larkin
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
Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home. -- Ted Strickland
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
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
Americans mythologize competition and credit it with saving us from socialist bread lines. Actually, capitalism and competition are opposites. Capitalism is premised on the accumulation of capital, but under perfect competition, all profits get competed away. -- Peter Thiel
Over the years, the diamond industry has had a devastating impact in countries such as Sierra Leone, Angola and the Congo, where profits from the sale of diamonds have been used to fund brutal wars, with disastrous effects on local communities. -- Sheherazade Goldsmith
Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit. -- Abu Bakar Bashir
Economic theory dictates that the value of a company is basically the present value of its future profits. To estimate Facebook's value through its future profits, we need to have a view on its user growth and how this will evolve in the next 10 to 50 years. -- Didier Sornette
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In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic. -- Mark Cuban
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
Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least. -- Adam McKay
We are beginning to see a fundamental outrage at the whole interconnected mess of a system: at energy companies who record massive profits, yet allow pensioners to struggle to stay warm in winter; at CEOs who can earn up to a 1,000 times the salary of their average worker; and soon, any day now, at those politicians who allowed this to happen. -- Noreena Hertz
Civilisation and profits go hand in hand. -- Calvin Coolidge
Change amuses the mind, but rarely profits. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Where there are problems, there are profits. -- Christmas Incorporated
Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success. -- Ludwig von Mises
We make our profits through content and services. -- Lei Jun
He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it. -- Iain Pears
Your profits reflect the success of your customers. -- Ron Kaufman
He only profits from praise who values criticism. -- Heinrich Heine
A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth. -- Juvenal
Private insurance companies in America are reaping huge profits. -- Bernie Sanders
Good profits simply are not inconsistent with good behavior. -- Warren Buffett
The proper man understands equity, the small man profits. -- Confucius
You do not require an invitation to make profits. -- Dhirubhai Ambani
There are too few rich and too few profits. -- Margaret Thatcher
He has committed the crime who profits by it -- Seneca the Younger
The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life. -- Sir John Richard Hicks
Wars are popular. Contractors make profits; the aristocracy glean honour. -- Ramsay MacDonald
I liked the results of the profits in the markets. -- Walter Schloss
This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people. -- Walter Ulbricht
He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits. -- Ludwig von Mises
Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No. -- Philip Roth
I work so hard for profits because my dreams are expensive. -- Amit Kalantri
There are more ways than one to measure profits and losses. -- Randy Pausch
Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves. -- Andrew Carnegie
I have never been sad because my losses are my profits -- Praveen KC
Big business is willing to destroy the planet for short-term profits -- Bernie Sanders
Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits. -- Jeremy Grantham
Amateurs go broke taking large losses, professionals go broke taking small profits. -- William Eckhardt
Fearlessness begets happiness, which begets creativity, which begets innovation, which begets profits. -- Ben Chestnut
We're essentially continuing a system where profits are privatized and...losses socialized, -- Nouriel Roubini
Virtual business out sources all the work and in sources all the profits. -- Mark Victor Hansen
There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.... -- David Ricardo
Unfortunately, Congress is protecting the profits of those opposed to protecting the planet. -- Ray Metcalfe
Mothers are the ultimate executives. Instead of raising profits they are raising humanity. -- Virginia Burges
More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them. -- Sophocles
Gains in corporate profits depend in large part on accelerating global economic growth. -- Barry Ritholtz
Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind. -- Voltaire
A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits? -- Jack Schwartz
Transcendent values like trust and integrity literally translate into revenue, profits and prosperity. -- Patricia Aburdene
The best businesses are really ones that can combine passion, profits, and purpose. -- Tony Hsieh
The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits. -- Milton Friedman
Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning. -- S. Truett Cathy
It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins. -- Lou Gerstner
What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It's the American view that everything has to keep climbing: productivity, profits, even comedy. -- George Carlin
The best way to invest corporate profits is to give them to the employees. -- Ricardo Semler
Whoever has a keen eye for profits, is blind in relation to his craft. -- Sophocles
There is no reason why capitalists and entrepreneurs should be ashamed of earning profits. -- Ludwig von Mises
Leave no stone unturned to help your clients realize maximum profits from their investment. -- Arthur Nielsen
Leave no stone unturned to help your clients realize maximum profits from their investment. -- Arthur Nielsen
It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country...but the profits...skyrocket... -- Smedley Butler
Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits. -- Alex Berenson
Big food companies have their priorities, which include selling cheap, unhealthy foods at high profits. -- Jared Polis
An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits -- John F. Kennedy
A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others. -- Joseph Collins
Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. -- William Moulton Marston
Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits. -- David Ricardo
What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings. -- William Inge
The profits follow, and if we have remembered that, they have never failed to appear. -- George W. Merck
I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first, -- Fujio Mitarai
Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I. -- Alan Ladd
America can no longer afford to get the Nobel Prizes while our competitors get the profits. -- William J. Clinton
It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales! -- Robert Bolt
Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors. -- Benjamin Graham
Non-profits must become deeply engaged in the ways that their donor communities are using social technology. -- Simon Mainwaring
Medicine is for the patient. Medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits. -- George W. Merck
Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire. -- Jacques Amyot
Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions. -- Tony Hsieh

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