Profit Quotes

"It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life."
-Jackie Mason

"If you count all your assets, you always show a profit."
-Robert Quillen

"Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend."
-Eric Sevareid

"No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect."
-William Shakespeare

"He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure."
-Horace Mann

"War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel."
-Niccolo Machiavelli

"Many receive advice, few profit by it."
-Publilius Syrus

"It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well."
-Publilius Syrus

"That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit."
-Amos Bronson Alcott

"I don't get the problem here at all. We're not making a profit."
-Keith Winkowski

"If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?"
-Robert Townsend

"Realizing these goals will result in $2.5 billion in overall profit improvement."
-Doug Steenland

"It's just profit-takers moving in after what has been a very, very good run in the share price."
-Arthur Lim

"We could, in fact, have the whole business in profit. But we want to keep growing. We did not get $10 million in the bank to earn interest."
-Grant Baker

"Rosy earnings results spurred the market. But as firms with poor profit figures often unveil their results in late April, the index likely will face downward pressure."
-Liu Yu

"I don't think it will be as dramatic as yesterday, but we will see some gains despite profit taking."
-Terry Milne

"We're more than happy to profit from short-term fluctuations, and we think this morning's dramatic drop is very short-term."
-Dan Ahrens

"We think the largest emerging threat is very different. Today's threats are not based on notoriety, but on profit."
-Gary Mcdaniel

"What is IT agility? It's the mixture of art and engineering that delivers robust 80% solutions fast enough to capitalize on opportunities before profit margins drop."
-Michael Hugos

"No one knows what the market will look like next year and a profit warning from Intel does not bode well."
-Haruki Takahashi

"This is the down side of the hot real estate issue we're experiencing. If the private sector could make a profit doing this [developing affordable housing], they'd already be doing it."
-Christopher Williams

"She has decided to stay away from it (the offices) till the air is cleared over the issue (office of profit)."
-Rajiv Shukla

"Their guidance for returning to profit in the fourth- quarter will probably be due to seasonality factors. There's still a possibility of loss in the first quarter of 2006."
-Teo Chon Kiat

"Any for-profit entity of (Google's) magnitude using land owned by the people should not escape paying their fair share."
-Larry Stone

"I do believe that what we're seeing here is profit taking, which is a means of insurance that you need to take when the market has run very hard into a profit season that's got very high expectations about it."
-Jamie Spiteri

"We're looking at companies that are close to making a profit. And there are not too many of those."
-Jeffrey Silber

"I believe that to solicit funds from private individuals, to open bank accounts, and to disburse and manage these funds without a duly-registered non-profit status is against the law."
-Mary Johnson

"Italy is an attractive retail market for everyone. If BNP can come in and cut costs and improve profit, it could make the market more competitive."
-Andrew Sentance