Top 100 Profit Business Quotes
#1. Once you have opened up prisoner interrogation, wiretapping, border patrol, jailing and the services of the military, when this has been turned into a for-profit business in this endless war, then we're in deep trouble.
John Cusack
#2. Integrate purpose into your for-profit business model through a long term commitment to a cause that is aligned with your core values and those of your community.
Simon Mainwaring
#3. My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees, whether in a for-profit business or a not-for-profit, should keep in mind: A little extravagance goes a long way.
Nancy Lublin
#4. As anyone who goes into dog-rescue knows, it is not a for-profit business, but the rewards are priceless for me.
Emmylou Harris
#5. When the governing representatives of the people legalize the shedding of innocent blood (as a for-profit business, nonetheless) then they have placed themselves, and those they represent, in the direct line of God's judgment.
Tony Evans
#6. Once you privatize something, it becomes a for-profit business.
Jesse Ventura
#7. What makes for a good marriage isn't necessarily what makes for a good romantic relationship. Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane and often boring non-profit business. And I mean this in a good way.
Lori Gottlieb
#8. The U.S. government uses cash accounting. That is illegal for any enterprise of any size in America except for the U.S. government. Every for-profit business, every not-for-profit business, every state and local government has to use real accounting except for Uncle Sam.
Jim Cooper
#9. Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. - It is not fair. - He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. - I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it - but fear I must.
Jane Austen
#10. A good businessman knows how to make a profit. An engineer makes sure it runs well. We need more leaders who are task oriented.
Phil Mitchell
#11. Too much profit is being made at the expense of unsuspecting patients.
Melissa Cady
#12. New business models are altering workplaces everywhere, in for-profit and nonprofit sectors alike. Enterprises must constantly evaluate and change their business models to survive.
Timothy Clark
#13. What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#14. There is no more strategic issue for a company, or any organization, than its ultimate purpose. For those who think business exists to make a profit, I suggest they think again. Business makes a profit to exist. Surely it must exist for some higher, nobler purpose than that.
Ray Anderson
#15. Traditional businesses can say, 'We're going to sell widgets to people, and it will make X amount of profit.' But new business models are hard.
Kevin Systrom
#16. 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.
Sonja Sohn
#17. Many small businesses would rather face an angry barbarian horde than tackle their cash flow statement or price a new product.
Nicole Fende
#18. If companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say.
Anita Roddick
#19. Business is all about solving people's problems - at a profit.
Paul Marsden
#20. The studios basically, besides developing some material, their strength is distribution. Distribution in any other business is a cost that you incur. You know, in a trucking business, you eat it. In a film business, distribution is a profit center.
Michael Douglas
#21. Every time I go into a new venture, I find a "rabbi" who has the business acumen to help me understand the mechanics of that industry, the costs involved in developing a product, and what you need to do in order to make a profit.
Russell Simmons
#22. Profit is not the proper end and aim of management - it is what makes all of the proper ends and aims possible
David Packard
#23. If economics were only about profit maximization, it would be just another name for business administration. It is a social discipline, and society has other means of cost accounting besides market prices.
Dani Rodrik
#24. You can't live if you don't eat, but you don't live to eat. And neither does business exist primarily to make a profit. It exists to fulfill its purpose, whatever that might be.
John Mackey
#25. When you look at the number of stupid people who have succeeded in business, you clearly don't have to be very bright. Business is all about getting your sales up and your costs down, the bit in the middle is profit.
Michael O'Leary
#26. Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.
Charles Handy
#27. Everybody would love to be mayor of Chicago. If you look at what we have done over many, many years and where we are today and the commitment by the business community, the commitment by the not-for-profit community - all this coming together - this is a wonderful city.
Richard M. Daley
#28. Social business lies in the spectrum of possibility between the traditional, profit-maximizing business, which directs little to no profit to doing good, and the traditional charity, which relies mostly on donations to sustain itself.
Leila Janah
#29. I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity.
Roy Barnes
#30. 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.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#31. What do you require to exchange your ideas for mine?" "You think my convictions are for sale?" "Why not?" came the cold response. "Isn't that your business, buying and selling?" "Only at a profit," said Mallow,
Isaac Asimov
#32. Intelligent men never do a business; only a fool kills his own beautiful instincts for the sake of a word profit.
Thiruman Archunan
#33. Whether you practice craftiness in your business, you will have profit and if you do not practice craftiness, then also you will have [same] profit. Craftiness creates a liability for the next life. So God had said not to do craftiness. There is no benefit in it and there is infinite suffering.
Dada Bhagwan
#34. Sell practical, tested merchandise at a reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings - and they will always come back.
Leon Leonwood Bean
#35. 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.
Sydney Pollack
#36. . . . crop restrictions not only raise the price of corn and other crops but also tend to raise farmers' total revenues and earnings." Increase your corn profit by not growing corn? Here's a wonderful kind of business where everybody can get rich if they'll just do nothing.
P. J. O'Rourke
#37. Big business is willing to destroy the planet for short-term profits
Bernie Sanders
#38. 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.
Corinne Maier
#39. Profit isn't and shouldn't be the mission of business. The mission of business is to help people. To help your customers, your co-workers, your employees, and your partners. Success is not a number - it's not X dollars or Y customers - it's a measurement of VALUE.
Fran Tarkenton
#40. Gov. Romney is a proven and effective leader with vast experience in the business world, in the non-profit world and in government. And in every capacity in which he has ever served, he has been effective as a leader.
Jim Talent
#41. A small profit it better than a big loss
Ron Rash
#42. If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.
Vernon Howard
#43. For business owners, there are many important documents to learn to read. One of the most important is the profit and loss statement, known as the P&L, and the balance sheet.
Darren L Johnson
#44. We in America count on the profit motive to get people to do the right thing. That's our basic American notion when it comes to business.
Chris Matthews
#45. The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits
Milton Friedman
#46. 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
#47. 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.
Muhammad Yunus
#48. The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.
Tom Petty
#49. 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.
Jerry Greenfield
#50. Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula. Lifetime value is the net present value of the profit stream of a customer.
Bill Gurley
#51. The difference between most mothers and me is that I didn't sit around drinking coffee at baby group for 12 months after the birth of my baby. No, in three weeks I was back in my suit, back at my desk earning profit for my business and I don't see why other women shouldn't do the same.
Katie Hopkins
#53. Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.
Tim Robbins
#54. I think no matter how you think about your music, you're ultimately in the music 'business.' I think you have to be business-minded in some sense. And for me, the real goal ... is positive intention and social change through music. It doesn't mean that can't turn a profit.
Mary Lambert
#55. I know how the world works. Business decisions are not made for the good of the people, but for the sake of profit, loyalty and expedience.
Christopher Fowler
#56. Profit is to business what breathing is to humans. Both are essential to survival, but just as breathing is not the purpose of life, so profit is not the purpose of business.
Margaret Benefiel
#57. 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.
Clint Howard
#58. There's no such thing as business ethics; there's just ethics. And ethics makes no concessions for the real or imagined necessities of making a profit.
Michael Josephson
#59. I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.
Walt Disney
#60. And no business can possibly equate happy workers (community) with profit (effectiveness). Happy workers are much more productive workers and hence contribute to profit, but no organization is formed for the idea of pleasing its employees.
Harvey Pekar
#61. The ultimate profit from all of my businesses is to be happy and to make all of the customers happy.
Debasish Mridha
#62. I think of the difficulties which, in various countries, today afflicts the world of work and business; I think of how many, and not just young people, are unemployed, many times due to a purely economic conception of society, which seeks selfish profit, beyond the parameters of social justice.
Pope Francis
#63. People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us.
Wendell Berry
#64. There isn't one thing the federal government does that anybody in Big Business would emulate, at least not in the profit sector.
Rush Limbaugh
#65. If you create something, you don't want someone else to go and profit from it; you have your right to make a living and everything. So I respect copyright. What I don't respect is copyright extremism. And I what I don't respect is a business model that encourages piracy.
Kim Dotcom
#66. If there is excitement in their lives, it is contained in the figures on the profit and loss sheet. What an indictment.
Anita Roddick
#67. The industry is littered with self-styled purists who believe the business of media.. the requirement to make a profit.. somehow corrupts the craft.
Lachlan Murdoch
#68. 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.
Carlos Wallace
#69. I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.
Charles Koch
#70. There is a huge body of business evidence now showing that energy savings give better service at lower cost with higher profit. We have to tear down barriers to successful markets and we have to create incentives to enter them.
William J. Clinton
#71. What's the best way to ensure your small business makes a profit? Without a doubt, it's to keep your overhead costs low, and maximize your sales per marketing dollar.
Kevin J. Donaldson
#72. The consumers are asking for, they lose their office. Their task is service to the consumer. Profit and loss are the instruments by means of which the consumers keep a tight rein on all business activities.
Ludwig Von Mises
#73. 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.
F. Marco-Serrano
#74. Business has two 'children'. One is called 'loss' and the other 'profit'. No one likes the one called 'loss', but both are indeed there. They are born together.
Dada Bhagwan
#75. A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.
Marvin Bower
#76. There are a handful of companies who understand all successful business operations come down to three basic principles; People
Product
Profit. Without top people, you cannot do much with the other two.
Malcolm Forbes
#77. Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
Scott Adams
#78. In the foundation and development of a successful enterprise there must be a single-minded pursuit of financial profit.
C. Northcote Parkinson
#79. Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.
Tony Hsieh
#80. Running a business well means knowing when it's time to make profit.
Auliq Ice
#81. Profit is a by-product of success, focus on success not on profit.
Firoz Thairinil
#82. The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.
Edward Norton
#84. If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness ... we would be pursuing not piety,but profit.
Clement Of Alexandria
#85. It's for management to enthuse & motivate employees towards excellence in service; the profit incentive doesn't last
Phil Harding
#86. The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.
Frederick Soddy
#87. Virtual business out sources all the work and in sources all the profits.
Mark Victor Hansen
#88. The social business marketplace is effectively forcing brands to engage with consumers on the basis of something that is meaningful to them. More often than not, this takes the form of some core value that finds expression in a non-profit cause.
Simon Mainwaring
#89. 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.
Babe Ruth
#90. 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.
Marc Ostrofsky
#91. Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit.
Marya Mannes
#92. (Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss
Peter Drucker
#93. Genius of AND. Embrace both extremes on a number of dimensions at the same time. Instead of choosing a OR B, figure out how to have A AND B-purpose AND profit, continuity AND change, freedom AND responsibility, etc.
James C. Collins
#94. If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.
James C. Collins
#95. 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.
James Conaway
#96. 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.'
Mitch Daniels
#97. Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.
Carlos Ghosn
#98. The chief executive officer is also the chief sales officer. He or she is responsible for the success of the company and making a profit. The closer the CEO is to the everyday selling process, bringing in business, the more successful the company will become.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#99. Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity
Peter Drucker
#100. Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.
James Rouse
