#profit

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

— Frederick Soddy

#business #capital #exists #great #money

A movie that costs only $1.6 million doesn't have to be a cultural event to turn a profit. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#cultural #event #million #movie #only

Toy companies aren't interested in ideology, they want to sell toys. If they would sell a toy that both boys and girls would buy, it doubles profits. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

#boys and girls #buy #companies #doubles #ideology

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception. ↗

— Sophocles

#comes #deception #even #profit #sweet

Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't under-estimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care of social needs. ↗

— George Soros

#allow #care #designed #great #i

When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#comes #down #go #happen #market

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

— Eliot Spitzer

#corporate #management #obligation #parameters #profit

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#age #almost #any #completes #costs

It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#finds #foundations #grows #helps #incident

The media love coarse debate because coarse debate drives ratings and ratings generate profits. Unless the TV producer happens to be William Shakespeare, an argument is more interesting than a soliloquy - and there will never be a shortage of people willing to argue on TV. ↗

— John Sununu

#argument #because #coarse #debate #drives