#profits

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. ↗

— Henry Ford

#absolutely #business #devoted #embarrassingly #large

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#content #does #justice #lack #profits

The general proposition is that the resources that will be utilized are the ones that contribute most to the overall efficiency of the production system. The third parameter has to do with our commercial world, our search for profits. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#commercial world #contribute #efficiency #general #most

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth. ↗

— Hesiod

#confidence #either #false #greatly #harms

Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#i #jimmy #jimmy stewart #just #percent

We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell. ↗

— Barack Obama

#built #chasing #come #could #country

What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they're learned to do more with less, and so they don't hire. ↗

— Barack Obama

#businesses #danger #go #high #hire

The one thing people seem to forget is the more oil we have, the lower the price and the lower the profits the oil companies make. ↗

— David Pratt

#forget #lower #make #more #oil

The President's announcement sounded less like a national energy plan than like a page from an election-year play book. This Administration's plan to reduce obscene oil company profits is to regulate them less. ↗

— Nick Rahall

#announcement #book #company #energy #energy plan

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