#profit

Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

#mankind #more #nothing #profitable #right

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#gratitude #profitable #revenge

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

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit. ↗

— George Grosz

#cult #genius #greater #individuality #itself

By definition startups usually do not turn a profit. ↗

— Kevin Harrington

#profit #turn #usually

I founded Netflix. I've built it steadily over 12 years now, first with DVD becoming profitable in 2002, a head-to-head ferocious battle with Blockbuster and evolving the company toward streaming. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#becoming #blockbuster #built #company #dvd

Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#cent #excess #greed #i #idiot

And if we are in this state, if we had an eternity of probation, what reason have we to suppose that we should profit by it - if we had ever so long a time to chose for ourselves we should pursue our own will, to gratify our carnal I desires. ↗

— Elias Hicks

#chose #desires #eternity #ever #gratify

As soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the calculations of the capitalists in the investment of capital in newly-created branches of production. ↗

— Rudolf Hiferding

#branches #calculations #capital #capitalist #capitalists