239 Quotes About Profit

Jeff Park paused, as if to let that figure register, but Barry had heard it all before. Prices went up. Shareholders profited. What part of "capitalism" didn't Jeff Park understand?

Advertising makes it possible for a company to make it our problem that it makes a product that solves a problem we do not and will never have.

To do what profits is eternity.

Capitalism is also incapable of promoting sustainable development, not because it encourages technological advances that are capable of straining the earth's resources but because the purpose of capitalist production is exchange value not use value, profit not people.

After delayed gratification comes greater reward, better profit and greater glory.

Strive to enrich all lives, hearts and minds not just your own pockets

We shall never fully understand nature (or ourselves), and certainly never respect it, until we dissociate the wild from the notion of usability - however innocent and harmless the use. For it is the general uselessness of so much of nature that lies at the root of our ancient hostility and indifference to it.

If the power to tax is the power to destroy then the power to profit is the power to create.

... the sea defrauds many an honest undertaker of his profits.