#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

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

If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It's a process of innovation. ↗

— Jerry Greenfield

#both #conditions #innovation #limitless #mind

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. ↗

— Plutarch

#even #how #know #listen #profit

Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable. ↗

— James Rouse

#legitimate #need #people #product #profit

Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses. ↗

— Alfred P. Sloan

#competition #competitive #final #force #hoped

If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation. ↗

— Jim Collins

#non-profit #society #business

He had been taught as a child that Urras was a festering mass of inequity, iniquity, and waste. But all the people he met, and all the people he saw, in the smallest country village, were well dressed, well fed, and contrary to his expectations, industrious. They did not stand about sullenly waiting to be ordered to do things. Just like Anaresti, they were simply busy getting things done. It puzzled him. He had assumed that if you removed a human being's natural incentive to work -- his initiative, his spontaneous creative energy -- and replaced it with external motivation and coercion, he would become a lazy and careless worker. But no careless workers kept those lovely farmlands, or made the superb cars and comfortable trains. The lure and compulsion of profit was evidently a much more effective replacement of the natural initiative than he had been led to believe. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#inequity #iniquity #initiative #profit #business

The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment. ↗

— Confucius

#consumerism #greed #materialism #profit #greed