Business Profitability Quotes

#1. The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out of business. Profitability rather than human need is the determining condition of private investment.

Michael Parenti

#2. Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert.

Robert Fripp

#3. Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason.

Angela Carter

#4. Just as the sailor yearns for port, the writer longs for the last line.

Alix Christie

#5. Allow the beauty of all that we love be reflected in who we are and in our actions.

Mark W. Boyer

#6. This is what people are talking about when they use words like grace.
That moment, that morning, came vividly back to him whenever he thought of it. But soon suspicion set in. He understood well enough that life by very definition is upset, movement, agitation.

James Sallis

#7. The success of the Starbucks has been based on this balance between profitability and a social conscience. Everywhere we're doing business, were trying to manage the business through the lens of humanity.

Howard Schultz

#8. I called him Grandfather, because according to him you do not have to be of the same blood or same tribe to be a member of the same family, but in truth I should have called him Maman. He was the only mother I ever knew.

Isabel Allende

#9. I am not here to teach martial arts, but to change people's lives!

Carlos Machado

#10. In general, you don't want competitors to understand your business outside of telling people your revenue and profitability numbers.

Dave Goldberg

#11. I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.

M. J. Hyland

#12. I'd known cruelty in a school - cruelty that would keep these amateurs up all night. But this kind of scene - crowds batting around a person because they thought he was weak - happened to be my personal trigger.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#13. The idea that growth equals profitability is a misconception. If you can't afford the financial or qualitative side of growth, it can just as easily put you out of business.

Mark Cuban

#14. So is this a habit of yours, leaving your bag behind in order te strike up a conversation?" He grinned and nodded at the bench where I had been sitting. Lying beneath it was my book bag. "Wouldn't it be easier to just walk up to a guy and say hello?

Amy Plum

#15. Moral of the Day:

Justin Bieber

#16. I don't care about awards and public image. We know the business of entertainment. We worship our work, we worship our clients and we worship profitability.

Shailender Singh

#17. And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'

John Thorn

#18. Profitability is the consequence of doing business in the right way, to honor God.

Ted Malloch

#19. Successful weight management really means a permanent change in lifestyle - and success in this arena provides that person with a great opportunity to model that behavior for friends and family.

Francis Collins

#20. We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.

Jeff Bezos

#21. Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise.

Warren Buffett

#22. Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.

Carlos Slim

#23. The hopes and fears of all the years are here with us tonight

Kurt Vonnegut

#24. I mostly eat ice cream at night in sweatpants, the uniform of ice cream eating. I'll toss the lid even before I start eating the pint, because I'm not a quitter

Jim Gaffigan

#25. We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally - and certainly not in reinsurance - as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability standards are ignored.

Warren Buffett