Money Profit Quotes

#1. In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money. - Author: Adam McKay

#2. The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today. - Author: Frederick Soddy

#3. Banks do not create money for the public good. They are businesses owned by private shareholders. Their purpose is to make a profit. - Author: John Rogers

#4. 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. - Author: Thomas Sowell

#5. It is very hard to stay in touch with our true identity because those who want our money, our time, and our energy profit more from our insecurity and fears than from our inner freedom. - Author: Henri Nouwen

#6. If you can't figure out how to make money on three billion in revenue, when exactly will the profit magic be found? Ten billion? Fifty billion? - Author: David Heinemeier Hansson

#7. It is the law of wealth that such people only profit from the money that is taken from them. - Author: E.L. Doctorow

#8. We are not slaves of the market. Our human life has a greater meaning than making money, making profit, and working for the market or for multinational corporations. - Author: Satish Kumar

#9. Do not lie to yourself: not every penny you invest in marketing and promotion is an actual investment. What's the difference? It is easy - if you spend your precious money in a marketing campaign and this provokes increased profit, then that is well invested money. - Author: F. Marco-Serrano

#10. I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington. - Author: Charles Koch

#11. I think that George Lucas' 'Star Wars' films are fantastic. What he's done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films and poured it into developing digital sound and surround sound, which we are using today. - Author: Peter Jackson

#12. DOOR MONEY" To focus on door money means one is paying so much attention to the amount of money they are making at the door they do not consider there is much more profit to be made inside a venue. - Author: Carlos Wallace

#13. *Customer service* is seldom about the customer; it is usually about the seller's chances of making more money from that customer in future. - Author: Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#14. A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service is being reorganized on the self-destructive basis of self-interest. - Author: John Ralston Saul

#15. The value you get does not depend on what you have, but how much of it you bring to the market place. You don't get paid when you keep your gifts at home and go to the market empty handed! - Author: Israelmore Ayivor

#16. There is a lack of economic and political motivation to defend life in the oceans. The profit is made by companies exploiting the oceans and they have the money to buy the politicians who make the laws. - Author: Paul Watson

#17. The basic issue is whether the financial elite or the government on behalf of the people should have the profit from creating money. - Author: Linda McQuaig

#18. Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception. - Author: Sophocles

#19. There's always gonna be people with a lot of money making film, and the goal is to make profit and carry on. It is a business. The goal is to make a living doing it and to be comfortable. - Author: Clint Howard

#20. When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one. - Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

#21. Experience has proved to me that real money made in speculating has been in commitments in a stock or commodity showing a profit right from the start. - Author: Jesse Lauriston Livermore

#22. To the family of a victim of a fatal accident, the deceased was at the wrong place at the wrong time. To the family of the morgue owner, the deceased was at the right place at the right time. - Author: Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#23. Money will always turn up when there is a potential for profit. - Author: James Cook

#24. I want the largest audience I can get, because that's how I can charge the highest advertising rate. Which means what else do I want? Money. I am trying to earn a profit. It's capitalism. - Author: Rush Limbaugh

#25. While Financier George Soros was investing money in Kosovo's reconstruction, the George Soros Foundation for an Open Society had opened a branch office in Pristina establishing the Kosovo Foundation for an Open Society (KFOS) as part of the Soros' network of "non-profit foundations" in the Balkans. - Author: Michel Chossudovsky

#26. The sisterhood of librarians is a non-profit organisation and our goal is to keep imagination alive, not make money. - Author: S.A. Tawks

#27. I always try to communicate to our people that we can never make enough money. We can never make enough profit. - Author: Douglas R. Oberhelman

#28. People who get to express their voice are paid by the people who make profit from it. So they're going to make you believe you have to spend your money buying these products otherwise you won't be happy. This is really wrong. Especially the implication it carries. - Author: Michel Gondry

#29. Sometimes people ask why I'm so willing to give out #free copies of my books and the answer is pretty simple. Money is not why I write.So why would I keep someone from enjoying that because they can't afford my book? If your in the arts for money your picking the wrong job. - Author: Adam Snowflake

#30. When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.' - Author: Mitch Daniels

#31. He who loves money never has money enough,
He who loves wealth never has enough profit;
This too is vanity. - Author: Anonymous

#32. I believe in God ... but I don't believe in religion. Religion is used to manipulate and punish. Used in a thousand ways for profit for even in the church, money is still the 'real' God. - Author: V.C. Andrews

#33. In his 1865 lecture on "Value, Price and Profit," Marx illustrated luxury consumption as money "wasted on flunkeys, horses, cats and so forth." It is some measure of progress that the general population can now afford to keep cats. - Author: Anonymous

#34. Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money. - Author: Murray Walker

#35. Many people and companies only have one goal: money, money, and more money. Greed is ok when you let others profit from it, but greed for oneself is bad, it makes you ill. - Author: Dalai Lama

#36. The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit. - Author: Marya Mannes

#37. Businesses can lead with their values and make money, too. You don't have to simply be purely profit-driven. You can integrate social and environmental concerns into a business, be a caring business, be a generous business and still do very well financially. - Author: Jerry Greenfield

#38. The point of business was to make just enough money to keep going, not to create a monster of productivity that chained a person to the wheels of power and stifled all creativity and imagination. Business should not be profit-driven; it should be idea-driven. - Author: James Conaway

#39. The health insurance industry does not like to pay out claims, because they don't make money. The only way they can make a profit is if they don't pay for your operation. If they pay for your operation and your doctor's appointment and your pharmaceuticals, they don't make any money. - Author: Michael Moore

#40. Actions that exemplify the limitations of a singular devotion to the profit motive, also draw a troublesome distinction between what is legal and what is moral. - Author: Usman W. Chohan

#41. Online business models are still evolving. New and different products and services pop up every day. This gives rise to supporting products and services. A business can make substantial profit by helping others execute their plans for making money. - Author: Marc Ostrofsky

#42. Capitalism has turned human beings into commodities. To the owner of a restaurant: the cook and a bag of potatoes are equally important. - Author: Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#43. I've always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had always been rapping. - Author: Meek Mill

#44. A zoo is a cultural institution. Like a public library, like a museum, it is at the service of popular education and science. And by that token, not much of a money-making venture for the Greater Good and the Greater Profit are not compatible aims. - Author: Yann Martel

#45. A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get some of the profit he brings in. Don't make any difference if it's baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It's business, I tell you. There ain't no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff. - Author: Babe Ruth

#46. Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible. - Author: Lewis H. Lapham

#47. A rumor is usually a lie that the media can legally profit from. - Author: Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#48. Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost. - Author: Barbara Kingsolver

#49. Today, professional football is about profit and making money. But it's not about how much money you spend, it's about how wisely you spend it. - Author: John Riggins

#50. The amount of work that a for-profit has to do to get real money is minimal compared to the amount of work it takes a non-profit to get even a very small grant. - Author: Leila Janah

#51. So this is the goal: To make money by increasing net profit, while simultaneously increasing return on investment, and simultaneously increasing cash flow. - Author: Eliyahu M. Goldratt

#52. Our health care system squanders money because it is designed to react to emergencies. Homeless shelters, hospital emergency rooms, jails, prisons - these are expensive and ineffective ways to intervene and there are people who clearly profit from this cycle of continued suffering. - Author: Pete Earley

#53. Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear. - Author: Ayn Rand

#54. Even genius is tied to profit. - Author: Pindar

#55. Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit ... the person who is working for the sake of his own satisfaction, the money he gets in return serves merely as fuel, that is, as a symbol of reward and recognition, in the last analysis, of acceptance by ones fellowmen. - Author: Otto Rank

#56. To succeed in creating wealth, you must learn to control the mechanics of profit and understand the laws of wealth, rather than focusing in accumulating paper-money. - Author: Daniel Marques

#57. To put money into anything, anywhere, provided that the downside is measurable and acceptable and the chances of a good profit appear to be better than 50%. I will not take gambles, but it is part of my job description to be ready to take very carefully calculated risks. - Author: Peter Cundill

#58. I never lost money by turning a profit. - Author: Bernard M. Baruch

#59. I'm having a reputation of being somebody who will not be crazy. Not descend to doing drugs and spending an enormous amount of money, and instead delivering a product to people. Something they can sell and recoup their money and make a profit. - Author: Wes Craven

#60. During the Gold Rush, most would-be miners lost money, but people who sold them picks, shovels, tents and blue-jeans (Levi Strauss) made a nice profit. - Author: Peter Lynch

#61. If companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say. - Author: Anita Roddick

#62. If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on me as an idler. - Author: Henry David Thoreau

#63. I had made my fortune by being able to spot a certain kind of man. The kind who never asked you for faith, hope and charity, but offered you facts, proof and profit. - Author: Ayn Rand

#64. It's hard to get money to support your [non-profit] organization if you have no evidence. It's very much like the acting business: You need an agent and manager so you can get a job to get resources, but you can't get an agent and a manager unless people see your work. - Author: Sonja Sohn

#65. I write down the three measurements which Lou and I agreed are central to knowing if the company is making money: net profit, ROI and cash flow. - Author: Eliyahu M. Goldratt

#66. A You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit. - Author: Anonymous

#67. The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits; ... - Author: David Ricardo

#68. We all like to see everybody make a profit ... a very little. - Author: Cullen Hightower

#69. A dream business that doesn't make money is a living nightmare. - Author: Habeeb Akande

#70. A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents. - Author: Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#71. The Protestants of old go to work not just for the money, their biggest motivation for work is service to God and man. Not the interest to gain profit or make money. - Author: Sunday Adelaja

#72. Profit or perish ... There are only two ways to make money: increase sales and decrease costs. - Author: Fred DeLuca

#73. In Hollywood everything is formatted, everything is compulsory, so therefore we have to follow the law of benefits and profit and money, let us say the law of Hollywood. - Author: Jean-Pierre Jeunet

#74. No profit grows where no pleasure is taken. - Author: William Shakespeare

#75. Typically, we make money when we buy things. We count the profits later, but we know we have captured them when we buy the bargain. - Author: Seth Klarman

#76. I will not spend the money for myself. I will rather spend it in special business on a no-profit-no-loss policy. We will also establish an eye hospital where even beggars will be given treatment at the cost of Taka 10-20. - Author: Muhammad Yunus

#77. Nobody ever lost money taking a profit. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#78. Why do some people act as if making money offended their delicate minds? I am out for a legitimate profit, and not ashamed of it; the fact that people will pay money for my goods and services shows that my work is useful. - Author: Robert A. Heinlein

#79. I'm not going to let the government make a profit out of lending money for people to go to college. So we're going to really change this. I see it as an investment, not an expense, and I'm going to treat it that way. - Author: Hillary Clinton

#80. But love was undependable, it came and then it went, so it was good to have a money value, because then at least those who wanted to make a profit from you would make sure you were fed enough and not damaged too much. - Author: Margaret Atwood

#81. Here you think the incentive to work is finances, need for money or desire for profit, but where there's no money the real motives are clearer, maybe. people like to do things. They like to do them well. - Author: Ursula K. Le Guin

#82. But they had a money value: they represented a cash profit to others. They must have sensed that
sensed that they were worth something. - Author: Margaret Atwood

#83. My parents are from north London, and so it's not like I'm some Yank who wants to make a profit out of football. I don't care about making money. I just want to see Spurs succeed and, if I can help, that's great. - Author: Steve Nash

#84. 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. - Author: Gene Fowler

#85. I've finally decided to write about profit for a change
But before I really started I already started to feel lame
Baby what's it to a beast who manely to money remains untamed - Author: Criss Jami

#86. Corporations never actually mention 'money'; that would be vulgar. They prefer such words as 'turnover,' 'profit,' 'salary,' 'revenue,' 'budget,' 'premium,' and 'savings,' all much more refined. - Author: Corinne Maier

#87. Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health. - Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

#88. There isn't any question that Hollywood is profit driven. Anybody that thinks it isn't is a fool. It's a business. Hollywood was never philanthropy. The only purpose it had was making money; the only purpose it still has is to make money. - Author: Sydney Pollack

#89. I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care. - Author: Dianne Feinstein

#90. You've got to spend your money for the things that money can buy, not worry about profit or loss. Save your energy for the things that money can't buy." He - Author: Haruki Murakami

#91. When it comes to Vought, or any corporate outfit really, all that counts to them is profit. They send their kids on planes built by the lowest bidder. They travel on the fuckin, things themselves. Company jets or first class, they still go on 'em. Safety costs. Money's God. - Author: Garth Ennis

#92. Male actors get into production, share profit, and they don't take money at times but are involved in some capacity which is economical and resourceful. These things suit them; as they have made a place for themselves, they have command over the box office. - Author: Kangana Ranaut

#93. Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it. - Author: Gary Vaynerchuk

#94. The press don't like to say nice things because nice is boring. It's much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we're responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit. - Author: Michael Bay