239 Quotes About Profit

The idea is that all nonmilitary space travel, manned and unmanned, should be privatized. "If it's worth doing at all," Donner said, "it should be done for profit, and not as a burden on the taxpayers." As though profit could be counted only as immediate financial gain.

Create from the heart, for nature rewards a person, not for the thing he wants to profit from, but for that which he does for fun.

Growth of productive capital and rise of wages, are they really, so indissolubly united as the bourgeois economists maintain? We must not believe their mere words. We dare not believe them even when they claim that the fatter capital is the more will its slave be pampered.

When you have nothing to lose, you have everything to gain.

We have thus seen that even the most favorable situation for the working class, namely, the most rapid growth of capital, however much it may improve the material life of the worker, does not abolish the antagonism between his interests and the interests of the capitalist. Profit and wages remain as before, in inverse proportion.

Journalism is not supposed to generate a profit but inform the public in the least biased manner possible about important matters and I fear until the former is again true the latter never shall be.

A person who sees it fit to 'sink denture' into a venture without confirming the benefit of turning a profit is a misfit businessman.

Of what profit is it to a businessman who loses his capital in pursuit of profit? How fit is a person who sees it fit to engage in a misfit practice of hazarding into a business without the benefit of profit?

It is fitting to forfeit a counterfeit benefit and trail a befitting profit.