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Profit Quotes
Lines on margins, growth, and the pull of financial gain.
These lines examine profit from a business lens, touching on shrinking margins in mature markets and manufacturers holding prices steady to protect their bottom line. One older observation notes that a taste for profit seems almost inborn. Compare with Finance for more on money and strategy.
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- Government
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The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not.
- Management
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Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.
- Nature
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Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.
- Labour
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It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce.
- Facility
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One of the degrees I have is in business, and I was a healthcare administrator that ran a 365-bed skilled nursing facility for years and generated several million dollars a year profit for them. So I have a background in business.
- Mean
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Our view is that just because Amazon can disrupt somebody else's profit stream, it doesn't mean that Amazon earns that profit stream.
- Driving
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The clash between capital and labour, between those seeking to maximise profit and those with only their toil to sell, was the driving force for the creation of the trade unions in the 19th century.
- Knowledge
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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.
- Per
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Profit per se is not my motive.
- Dividing
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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
- Go
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Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
- Big Companies
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The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.
- Debt
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In bypassing barriers between different classes, maturities, rating categories, debt seniority levels and so on, credit derivatives are creating enormous opportunities to exploit and profit from associated discontinuities in the pricing of credit risk.
- Bank
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What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.
- Goldman Sachs
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In 2008, Goldman Sachs only paid 1.1 percent of its income in taxes even though it earned a profit of $2.3 billion and received an almost $800 billion from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury Department.
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