Quotes About Business Profits

#1. The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state.

Craig Benson

#2. Startups and small businesses that do not invest at least 10% of their profits into R&D will have the privilege of remaining a startup and/or a small business.

Mark Anthony Peterson

#3. By some analysts' estimates, the Cupertino company now pockets as much as 80 percent of the profits of the entire cellphone handset business.

Brent Schlender

#4. Something out of the ordinary course of business is taking place that creates an investment opportunity. The list of corporate events that can result in big profits for you runs the gamut - spinoffs, mergers, restructurings, rights offerings, bankruptcies, liquidations, asset sales, distributions.

Joel Greenblatt

#5. Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think.

James De La Vega

#6. Any investment in sales training is an investment in your own gross profits.

Roy H. Williams

#7. In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.

Lee Iacocca

#8. Our country is a place where hope can be born and great companies, organizations and non-profits can spring up from an idea birthed on the back of a coffee-shop napkin.

Todd Stocker

#9. Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.

Tony Hsieh

#10. Business success isn't just a selfish aim. Profits spread beyond those who make them and bring jobs and prosperity.

Margaret Thatcher

#11. We began to temper Western democracy with what I'd call a social contract. We put in Social Security, graduated income tax, workers' compensation. We developed strong unions to negotiate with business owners so workers got an equitable share of the profits.

John Shelby Spong

#12. Virtual business out sources all the work and in sources all the profits.

Mark Victor Hansen

#13. In the business world, lower profits reflect less demand for your product. But in government the opposite is true - demand for our services increases in hard times.

Sonny Perdue

#14. Having a company that's successful is a wonderful platform to do new things. You don't have to raise money for it; you can take profits from the company and pump them into new business.

Kevin Systrom

#15. What if all the forces of society were bent upon developing [poor] children? What if society's business were making people insteadof profits? How much of their creative beauty of spirit would remain unquenched through the years? How much of this responsiveness would follow them through life?

Mary Heaton Vorse

#16. The number of managers with great track records in a given market depends far more on the number of people who started in the investment business (in place of going to dental school), rather than on their ability to produce profits.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#17. Business is no longer a matter of profits alone. Profits must come through public confidence, and public confidence is given to any merchant in proportion to the service which he gives to the public.

James Cash Penney

#18. To those men and women in business, remember the ultimate end of your work: to make a better product, to create better lives. I ask you to plan for the longer term and avoid that temptation of quick and easy paper profits.

George H. W. Bush

#19. At the end of the day, businesses should exist to provide profits for their team to share as a result of solving problems for their customers.

Clay Clark

#20. Profits are one of the most important goals of any successful business, and investors are one of the most important constituencies of public businesses.

John Mackey

#21. A successful business maximizes the present value of future earnings. The first requirement, therefore, of business success is sustainable profits. One-time winnings, in business as in casinos, are disappointing. We expect more from our investments than that.

Stephen Young

#22. One of the reasons Wall Street had cooked up this new industry called structured finance was that its old-fashioned business was every day less profitable. The profits in stockbroking, along with those in the more conventional sorts of bond broking, had been squashed by Internet competition.

Michael Lewis

#23. 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

#24. Tyra the businesswoman is very close to - and I hate third person, but you said it, oh, chiiild, you said it - but me the businessperson and me the person: very similar. I can be in a business meeting and be all 'Wooo!' and 'Oh, child!' and still be talking revenues and profits and cash flows.

Tyra Banks

#25. The best businesses are really ones that can combine passion, profits, and purpose.

Tony Hsieh

#26. The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit.

Smedley Butler

#27. Goodwill and reputation are intangibles, but they are the keys to business success. Since they are also inexorably linked to social values, it follows that a change in social norms will have a significant impact on profits.

Noreena Hertz

#28. We have a business that some people feel pollutes, and I happen to agree with them ... And so on the basis of trying to do good and, you know, hopefully turn a profit, what we did was we pledged that we'd put all the profits from our airline business into trying to develop clean fuels.

Richard Branson

#29. I think it is completely immoral for a shop to trade in the middle of a community, to take money and make profits from that community and then ignore the existence of that community, its needs and problems.

Anita Roddick

#30. It's completely legitimate for a company to continue striving for growth and higher profits. But business activities have to be conducted in a sustainable manner.

Paul Achleitner

#31. Big business is willing to destroy the planet for short-term profits

Bernie Sanders

#32. I pretty much believe, as everyone in the B Team does, that business must succeed beyond the bottom line. More important than profits is how you get to them. Measuring financial earnings and losses only is definitely not enough and has led us astray from creating a better world for all.

Guilherme Leal

#33. On behalf of the newspaper industry I wish to announce some changes we're making to serve you better. When I say 'serve you better,' I mean 'increase our profits.' We newspapers are very big on profits these days. We're a business, just like any other business, except that we employ English majors.

Dave Barry

#34. When each of these three elements of vision-concern for excellence, for people and for the wider environment-are present, business is transformed from a tool for making profits into a creative, humane experiment for improving life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#35. The message from Wal-Mart today to the rest of the business community is there need not be any conflict between the environment and the economy. We will find the way not only to reconcile (those), but to find new profits and new opportunities as we do the right thing.

Al Gore

#36. Profits are part of the mechanism by which society decides what it wants to see produced.

Henry Wallich

#37. A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Henry Ford

#38. When people are against profits they're against business; when they're against business, they're against employment; when they're against employment, it's not surprising that a large number of them are unemployed.

Richard J. Needham

#39. He had learnt how to feign pleasure in a state of pain; how to feign a rosy picture if there was a gloomy affair; how to feign profits when there were losses. And the art of feigning benefited him in his life, at least in business...

Girdhar Joshi

#40. Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.

Benjamin Graham

#41. Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.

James Buchan

#42. There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.

Milton Friedman

#43. A healthy society rests on three pillars: business, government and civil society, or non-profits. Each has a distinct and important role to play, and all three need to work together synergistically to create the most value for society.

John Mackey

#44. When you have countries that have a lot of minerals and diamonds and oil and are in business with companies from all over the world - but these companies don't share, really, their profits - this is called post-post-colonial.

Claire Denis

#45. There is no longer any anonymity on the Web - unless we mandate it. The most personal information about your online habits is collected, bought and sold, often instantaneously and invisibly. Data collection is a business driven by profits at consumers' expense.

Jackie Speier

#46. 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

#47. The function of profits, finally, is to put constant and unremitting pressure on the head of every competitive business to introduce further economies and efficiencies, no matter to what stage these may already have been brought.

Henry Hazlitt

#48. For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.

Tony Abbott

#49. CHOAM is business and business follows profits.

Frank Herbert

#50. Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs, consolidates and profits at the expense of others.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#51. The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.

Vince Cable

#52. The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits

Milton Friedman

#53. It is not size that counts in business. Some companies with $500,000 capital net more profits than other companies with $5,000,000. Size is a handicap unless efficiency goes with it.

Herbert Newton Casson

#54. 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

#55. I don't run a non-profit. There are lots of non-profits in America - in Detroit, parts of Wall Street, etc. I run a not for profit. We're a business. The only difference is that instead of selling soap or sneakers, we sell hope and leadership.

Nancy Lublin

#56. The ultimate profit of all businesses should be happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#57. Then the business game is to make profits out of others, and to prevent others from making profits out of you.

Jack London

#58. Profits are the driving force of the market economy. The greater the profits, the better the needs of the consumers are supplied ... He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.

Ludwig Von Mises

#59. Blackwater is a company whose business depends on war and conflict to thrive. It operates in a demand-based industry where corporate profits are intimately linked to an escalation of violence. That

Jeremy Scahill