High Profits Quotes

#1. In reality high profits tend much more to raise the price of (a piece of) work than high wages. (quoting Adam Smith - ch.
(III - From Corporatism to Democracy)

John Ralston Saul

#2. If you are creative enough to select the ideal vocation, you can win, win big time. The really brilliant millionaires are those who selected a vocation that they love, one that has few competitors but generates high profits.

Thomas J. Stanley

#3. Profit margins are probably the most mean-reverting series in finance, and if profit margins do not mean-revert, then something has gone badly wrong with capitalism. If high profits do not attract competition, there is something wrong with the system and it is not functioning properly.

Jeremy Grantham

#4. Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.

David Ricardo

#5. If oil companies were to invest their high profits into alternative fuel research it will help America move toward new forms of energy.

Rick Renzi

#6. Big food companies have their priorities, which include selling cheap, unhealthy foods at high profits.

Jared Polis

#7. There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.

Lewis Hine

#8. 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

#9. He is well paid that is well satisfied.

William Shakespeare

#10. Auschwitz was a much safer place to be than Dresden or any other city of any size in Germany from 1943 onward.

Michael Hoffman

#11. We now live in a time when PEOPLE and profits must become equally valuable in the corporate leaders Mindset.
Rethink your Leadership Culture to become a conscious, high performance organisation

Tony Dovale

#12. We [entrepreneurs] required that you leave us free to function
free to think and work as we choose ...
free to earn our own profits and make our own fortunes ... Such was the price we asked, which you chose to reject as too high.

Ayn Rand

#13. Money goes out first to pay expenses and then comes back as profits later - if at all. The high rate of failure of new businesses makes painfully clear that there is nothing inevitable about the money coming back.

Thomas Sowell

#14. I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Mark Victor Hansen

#15. There's a lot of not caring that goes under the name of minding your own business.

Robert Breault

#16. Not for one single day Can I discern my way, But this I surely know- Who gives the day Will show the way, So I securely go.

William Arthur Dunkerley

#17. Actually I dont know if it ever works out unless you are standing in the middle of the street and dont see the ten-ton truck coming and this good guy pushes you out of the way and says its for your own good.

Russell Banks

#18. Stock exchanges say that more than half of all trades are now executed by just a handful of high-frequency traders, who use rapid-fire computers to essentially force slower investors to give up profits, then disappear before anyone knows what happened.

Charles Duhigg

#19. Life would continue to exist and grow. Cause and effect still exist even where there is no time.

Aeriel Miranda

#20. If her security rests upon her alliance with a man, another woman may take that man away; therefore women have no unity between themselves.

Frederick Lenz

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. If we're willing to accept unlimited immigration in order to keep wages low and corporate profits high, we should just say so and stop paying for all the immigration enforcement window dressing.

Jan C. Ting

#24. During the period of capital moving from one employment to another, the profits on that to which capital is flowing will be relatively high, but will continue so no longer than till the requisite capital is obtained.

David Ricardo

#25. Since loans are getting more expensive and there's less money available, we're seeing a commensurate decline in growth. Higher costs and lower growth, in turn, translate into lower profits. Figuratively speaking, in the future, we won't be able to run as far or jump as high as we used to.

Paul Achleitner

#26. Loving myself exactly where I am is the only way to get where I'm going

Tracy McMillan

#27. It is the love in our hearts that we need to act on and not the false match made by our calculating brains.

Ritu Chowdhary

#28. Within a year of O'Neilrs speech, Alcoa's profits would hit a rec- ord high.

Charles Duhigg

#29. It is necessary ... to point out to such people certain places where I am certain they will have only to see clearly to recognize the great difference ...

Canguilhem

#30. With life the truth is not what is right or wrong, but with life the truth is the process, where life unfolds in every individual, and takes him to the whole.

Roshan Sharma

#31. companies that achieve a high return on capital are likely to have a special advantage of some kind. That special advantage keeps competitors from destroying the ability to earn above-average profits.

Joel Greenblatt

#32. Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don't have as much to sell. Your workers don't want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That's inflation.

W. Edwards Deming