#profit

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

— Alvin Toffler

#esteemed #goes #into #know #least

With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#been #brethren #content #extraordinary #human

So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn't making - let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year. ↗

— Donald Trump

#because #big #billion #business #call

Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit. ↗

— Paul Getty

#industries #notorious #operate #profit #their

If a product's future is unlikely to be remarkable - if you can't imagine a future in which people are once again fascinated by your product - it's time to realize that the game has changed. Instead of investing in a dying product, take profits and reinvest them in building something new. ↗

— Seth Godin

#building #changed #dying #fascinated #future

Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year. ↗

— Howard Stringer

#company #did #free #last #last year

Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough. ↗

— Norman Granz

#area #because #been #economic #enough

We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem. ↗

— Stephanie Herseth

#boasting #companies #consumers #fix #multinational

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. ↗

— Hesiod

#freight #greater #large #larger #load

Poets wish to profit or to please. ↗

— Horace

#poets #profit #wish