#profit

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Not a single person has died of boredom reading this book.


Nicole Fende


#profit #rock-star #small-business #business

Business is all about solving people's problems - at a profit.


Paul Marsden


#problem #profit #solving-problems #business

In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest. Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.


Adam Smith


#class-warfare #economics #labor #money #profit

The acquisition by dishonest means and cunning,' said Levin, feeling that he was incapable of clearly defining the borderline between honesty and dishonesty. 'Like the profits made by banks,' he went on. 'This is evil, I mean, the acquisition of enormous fortunes without work, as it used to be with the spirit monopolists. Only the form has changed. Le roi est mort, vive le roi! Hardly were the monopolies abolished before railways and banks appeared: just another way of making money without work.


Leo Tolstoy


#banks #earnings #labor #leo-tolstoy #monopolies

We need to take excellent care of our customers, and do so at a profit.


Gerard Arpey


#customers #excellent #need #our #profit

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.


Steve Ballmer


#companies #five #good #grown #industry

The press don't like to say nice things because nice is boring. It's much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we're responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit.


Michael Bay


#because #better #boring #brain #brain surgery

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.


Arnold Bennett


#ingenuity #little #little money #money #more

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.


Daniel Bernoulli


#any #founded #get #knowledge #mathematician

A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.


Marvin Bower


#basic #business #competitive #easily #edge