Profit Quotes

“The profits were staggering. In 1966, a Chicago landlord told a court that on a single property he had made $42,500 in rent but paid only $2,400 in maintenance. When accused of making excessive profits, the landlord simply replied, “That’s why I bought the building.”

“The profits were staggering. In 1966, a Chicago landlord told a court that on a single property he had made $42,500 in rent but paid only $2,400 in maintenance. When accused of making excessive profits, the landlord simply replied, “That’s why I bought the building.”

“Profit should never come at the cost of human blood. Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.”

“Profit is a by-product of success, focus on success not on profit.”

“When it comes to profit over safety, profit usually wins.”

“Business is about profit, yes – and it is about more than profit: at its best, it is about expanding the possibilities of humanity.”

“It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers,the people, the common man,prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and that governments prefer guns to butter. The entrepreneur does not make greater profits in selling bad things than in selling good things. His profits are the greater the better he succeeds in providing the consumers with those things they ask for most intensely.”

“A lie is more profitable than the truth. That is why we have elections.”

“Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.”

“Every person is a project, God's project, I want to be the most profitable one.”

“In the lean approach, companies are taught that prices are set by the market and that one way to improve profit margin is to reduce costs. This thinking flies in the face of "cost plus" thinking, where we look first at our own costs and set prices based on our desired profit margin. The reality is that most companies whether manufacturers or hospitals, do not have market power to set prices as they wish.”