Top 30 Profit Taking Quotes
#1. They say you never grow poor taking profits. No, you don't. But neither do you grow rich taking a four-point profit in a bull market. Where I should have made twenty thousand dollars I made two thousand. That was what conservatism did for me.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#2. 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
#3. Don't stand out. Be in a room and remain unnoticed.
Frederick Lenz
#4. With all the things I've been through, the No. 1 thing that I've learned is that we're supposed to help people through this world.
Ray Lewis
#5. I truly believe that capitalism was created to help people live better lives, but sadly over the years it has lost its way a bit. The short-term focus on profit has driven most businesses to forget about the important long-term role they have in taking care of people and the planet.
Richard Branson
#6. As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted a skin that has become subordinate to principles of mindless financial profit or mechanical efficiency, a skill for which governments care almost nothing.
Alberto Manguel
#7. Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.
Margaret Atwood
#8. My memories are of my dad taking me to football on Saturday mornings, and my mum taking me swimming. Those are the things I remember from my childhood, not sitting around the table debating capitalism and the profit squeeze.
David Miliband
#9. ROA: is the company taking the best advantage of assets? ROA is calculated by dividing the net profit by total assets. For
Georgi Tsvetanov
#10. The private sector is ill suited to taking on most of these large infrastructure investments: if the services are to be accessible, which they must be in order to be effective, the profit margins that attract private players simply aren't there.
Naomi Klein
#11. Q the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.
Anonymous
#12. There are many who condemn my crew and I for taking the law into our own hands and for taking on the barons of corporate profit.
Paul Watson
#14. Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy, half-baked trash massed together in one place.
George Orwell
#17. It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person's life. How anyone can come through that time well adjusted on any level is an absolute miracle.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#18. The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!
Winston Churchill
#19. Today, antibiotics are as common as a cup of coffee. In the 1950s they were relatively new. Today, over-use has reduced their efficacy but in the 1950s they really were a miracle drug. Sister Monica Joan had never had penicillin before, and responded immediately.
Jennifer Worth
#20. The Sandman is rising.
It'd been the only thing Coll had said before delirium had taken him again.
The Sandman. Rising.
Erin Kellison
#21. Second is the way of the merchant. The wine maker obtains his ingredients and puts them to use to make his living. The way of the merchant is always to live by taking profit.
Miyamoto Musashi
#22. Amateurs go broke taking large losses, professionals go broke taking small profits.
William Eckhardt
#24. Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than in maintaining them. As to reverses, no general cart presume to say that he may not be defeated; but he can, and ought to say, that he will not be surprised.
Charles Caleb Colton
#25. She would be a mentor and an inspiration to girls like herself, the quiet ones who'd sleepwalked their way through high school, knowing nothing except that they couldn't possibly be happy with any of the choices the world seemed to be offering them.
Tom Perrotta
#26. I've learned that once children gain a sense of real possession, they share very naturally, freely, and spontaneously.
Stephen R. Covey
#27. People at any stage will profit by taking the wheel and getting pointed in the right direction.
Michael Hyatt
#28. He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.
Eric Hoffer
#29. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but they return with the richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
William Gurnall
#30. The advice "you never go broke taking a profit" is foolish.
Warren Buffett