Profit Quotations

There are several things that can create an alpha - stock buybacks are one. High dividend yields are another, especially nowadays because the stock market yields more than the banks and the tenure treasury. But by and large, it tends to be companies with a strong cash flow, rising sales, accelerated earnings, a profit margin expansion.

The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not.

Pirates are the very essence of profit maximising entrepreneurs described in neoclassical economics. Yet, whilst films such as 'The Pirates of the Caribbean' and 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' have gone a long way to popularise both pirates and outlaw behaviour, the truth of the matter is that piracy is illegal, and it kills.

So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit who just so happens to be a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, we want that same consideration.

Our health care system squanders money because it is designed to react to emergencies. Homeless shelters, hospital emergency rooms, jails, prisons - these are expensive and ineffective ways to intervene and there are people who clearly profit from this cycle of continued suffering.

There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.

The Profit and Loss Statement tells you a lot about how your business is doing. It can also help you to determine ways that you can go about saving money so that you get to bring more money home! Basically, the P&L statement measures all of your income sources verses all your business expenses for any given period of time.

Hard Day's Night was one of those great films that will never happen again to anyone in their lifetime. UA were in profit before we'd even finished shooting - The advance sales on the album - the film was out before the album was out was more than it cost UA to make the film.

I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.

By definition startups usually do not turn a profit.

One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

Broadcast TV is still the mothership and it will be for the foreseeable future. Audiences may be declining slightly but revenues are going up and profits are going up.

Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.

Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!

I like to bring people together so we don't waste opportunities and resources and keep doing the wrong things when we know better. Corporate America makes great things and things that can hurt us. They have to be part of the solutions. There's nothing to say you don't make a profit by doing good.

Obesity is awesome from a Wall Street perspective. It's not just one disease - there are all sorts of related diseases to profit from.

Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins.

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

For business owners, there are many important documents to learn to read. One of the most important is the profit and loss statement, known as the P&L, and the balance sheet.

As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.

Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent.

There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.

A hacker doesnt deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

Tobacco is the only industry that produces products to make huge profits and at the same time damage the health and kill their consumers.

We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.

The best way to invest corporate profits is to give them to the employees.

I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.

The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

I dismiss personal profit and focus exclusively on people and planet. That's what I call social business: a nondividend company dedicated to solving human problems. You can go all the way, forgetting about personal profit, being single-minded about solving problems. The company makes profit, but profit stays with the company.

Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.

We must take the profit out of war.

Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.

Hollywood is going to have to find a way of meeting those profit goals.

Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula. Lifetime value is the net present value of the profit stream of a customer.

It's no surprise companies that quickly grow in value attract those who may want to also profit from the hard work of others.

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.

You know, my background, I was at a non-profit for years.

Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.

The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.

We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good.

An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made.

Giving builds loyal customers and turns those customers into supporters... You can find passion and profit and meaning all at once, right now.

For a long time, the for-profit world has told us in the not-for-profit sector to behave more like businesses.

Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No.

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.

I've always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had always been rapping.

Business people do two things with their time fundamentally. The first is that they try to create sales, right? Revenue, key to business. But the other thing they devote their time to equally is cost containment. That is to say, how to not create jobs. Because the fewer jobs you can create for the revenue you create, the more profit you make.

Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.

Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.

While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

There is no excuse for keeping wild animals in amusement parks or circuses. Until our governments take action, we should avoid supporting places where captive wild animals perform for our amusement. If the public will not pay to see them, the businesses that profit from keeping animals captive will not be able to continue.

Kickstarter isn't a profit center, it's an organizer and an instigator.

My parents are from north London, and so it's not like I'm some Yank who wants to make a profit out of football. I don't care about making money. I just want to see Spurs succeed and, if I can help, that's great.

I've had such a great track record in making a huge profit when the movies are smaller.

I never lost money by turning a profit.

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

Capitalism has been interpreted as an exclusively profit-centric human engagement. Some have been saying to bring people and planet into the picture. This can be a good change, but it is still not fully operationalized. Are you putting people, planet and profit at the same level?

The profit orientation is only one orientation of a person. The same people who are interested in profit-making are also selfless. I am not saying that capitalist theory is wrong. I am saying that it has not been interpreted and practiced fully.

Mitt Romney understands the private sector, he understands how profit is created, and he isn't embarrassed by it.

Love works not for profit nor reward; yet God has ordained that great gain shall be the certain result of every labor of love.

In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

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 the mouths of other people.

The way customers relate to brands and how profit is generated has changed so dramatically almost every professional is being challenged to reconsider what they do in order to stay relevant.

It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.

The biggest profit center for investment banks is the hefty fees they charge for underwriting stock offerings and giving financial advice, and analysts put those profits at risk if they publish negative conclusions about the companies that pay the fees.

Wal-Mart uses technology to increase sales volume, but the more it does so, the more it drives down profit margins - its own and everybody else's. The same logic does not appear to hold for Goldman Sachs.

The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.

The positive news in our view is the dividend... however, the headline net profit looks light.

We are possibly facing one of the worst periods, with profit warnings likely to come out some more, and banks and corporations are stepping up unloading of cross-held shares into September,

We are pleased with the solid first quarter (ended December 31) result with beer volume and overall group earnings in line with our business plan, giving us confidence that we are on track for our full year profit guidance.

We are pleased with the sales and profit growth we have generated across all of our trading blocs. We have also started to see success from our commitment to innovation and the recent introduction of new products that have resulted from that strategy.

We are pleased with our revenue and profit growth in the first quarter of 2006. Our US and Canadian distribution teams performed well and built on the momentum they generated in the second half of fiscal 2005. We look forward to further executing on our fiscal 2006 goals throughout the balance of the year.

We've achieved a good profit outcome despite softness in some of our businesses and weak revenue growth. Our profit reflects the fact that we continue to tune our business models and cost structures.

We believe that new-year allocations towards commodities will keep platinum and palladium firm in the near term and see platinum at $1,100/oz and palladium at $300/oz over one month, although we suspect that profit taking will set in at some stage and see both metals lower to $1,050/oz and $270/oz in three months.

We're making changes because the bookstore has struggled to make a profit or break even over the past few years. We have begun affiliating our bookstore with Columbia as they are the eighth largest in the country and know how to run a retail company.

We're making a profit every year, but the thing is, we keep putting that profit back into the business.

We're going to see continued growth in demand for drilling activity and exploration activity. With prices up so high and profit so great now.

What we're seeing is a tremendous increase in the number of complaints and horror stories, including fatalities, associated with the rush to corporate, profit driven health care in our country.

What we're seeing here is investors becoming increasingly nervous, awaiting the economic data tomorrow (Thursday). Profit warnings and future growth (concerns) are overshadowing the enthusiasm that we saw develop late yesterday -- it's a feeding process.

What they're really looking at is the long-term implications of this. In the past, there was a decidedly short-term mentality, and basically what (GM) would say is we'll settle so we can meet our quarterly profit projections. That's different today. The financial community is concerned about the short-term return?but what they're focused on is the long-term profitability.

We bought some shares recently in a dot.com company that was absolutely annihilated after this recent rout, About.com ( BOUT : Research , Estimates ), which is the ninth-largest Web property of all Web properties. The stock dropped from 100 in late March, to a low of $21. This is a company with a real business model that had blowout first-quarter earnings. And they are actually going to turn a profit in 2001. Investors went from 'everything Internet is good', to the 'everything Internet is bad' mantra. So now you've got to do your homework and look at individual names and identify the business models that are valid. And I think this is one that can go back to its old high.

We're more than happy to profit from short-term fluctuations, and we think this morning's dramatic drop is very short-term,

We're going to develop all these guys and if we put the work in, at the end we'll profit from it.

We feel that the blockbuster sale of RMA to NCO Group is an indication of transactions to come as private equity looks toward a sale as a way to profit from investments made a number of years ago.

We're expecting stocks to show another rise from last week's healthy levels. There's certainly a degree of profit taking before the numbers appear after Monday's Iran-driven rally.

We reiterate our concern about the profit drag from selling fewer SUVs.