Quotes about Profit
Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most who serves best" and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.
- Charles Spurgeon
Let us beg from God, a spiritual palate to relish a sweetness in holy things. For lack of spiritual hearts, we come to duty without delight, and go away without profit!
- Thomas Watson
Mr. Funkhouser, I believe I can make money for you.
- Dale Carnegie
Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.
- Leo Burnett
By the way, Dorian, he (Lord Henry) said, after a pause, what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose - how does the quotation run? - his own soul?
- Oscar Wilde
Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have profitable connections with German chemical firms after the war ends.
- Henry A. Wallace
Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
- Henry Ford
Strive for minimum waste, minimum profit, maximum distribution.
- Henry Ford
One should not forget that companies play a role in the social fabric of a nation. They are not just there to make a profit.
- Mattia Binotto
To see how seriously men take things and yet how little their seriousness profits them. Their tragedy makes our mediocrity all the more terrible.
- Thomas Merton
A fair price for oil is whatever you can get plus ten to twenty per cent.
- Anonymous
Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit.
- Samuel Johnson