Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise. — Peter Drucker
The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period. — Todd Gitlin
Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune. — Jim Rohn
Profits are the lifeblood of the economic system, the magic elixir upon which progress and all good things depend ultimately. But one man's lifeblood is another man's cancer. — Paul Samuelson
We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it. — Tim Cook
Profit is the payment you get when you take advantage of change. — Joseph A. Schumpeter
There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game. — Milton Friedman
He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits. — Ludwig von Mises
The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits. — Milton Friedman
Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don't have enough of it, you're out of the game. But if you think your life is about breathing, you're really missing something. — Peter Drucker
The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done. — Ludwig von Mises
Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production. — Joseph Schumpeter
Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production. — Joseph A. Schumpeter
So this is the goal: To make money by increasing net profit, while simultaneously increasing return on investment, and simultaneously increasing cash flow. — Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Short Profit Motive Quotes
If one is guided by profit in one's actions, one will incur much ill will. — Confucius
Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits. — David Ricardo
Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. — Richard Rogers
The concept of profit maximization is, in fact, meaningless. — Peter Drucker
Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself. — Phil Crosby
If being ethical were profitable everybody would do it. — Naval Ravikant
Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart. — Scott Adams
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity. — Charles Dickens
Profit Motive Image Quotes
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing. — Lionel Messi
Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all. — Henry Ford
Be not afraid of going slowly, Be afraid of standing still.
Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. — W. C. Fields
To make money in stocks, you need to have vision to see them, courage to buy them and patience to hold them. Patience is the rarest of the three. — Thomas Phelps
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. — Bruce Lee
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no mater how slow.
Money is a bonus of the job, but it doesn’t always make you happy. — Harry Kane
My experience indicates that most people who've accumulated a great deal of wealth haven't had that as their goal at all. Wealth is only a by-product, not the original motivation. — Michael Milken
The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life. — Charles R. Schwab
I don’t fight for the money, but every person is different. — Khabib Nurmagomedov
Good Motive Quotes
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway. — Mother Teresa
Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. — Dalai Lama
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. — Stevie Wonder
Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate! — Julian Bond
Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And best people give you memories. — Zig Ziglar
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny. — Mahatma Gandhi
As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business. — Peter Shilton
What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly. — Carl Rogers
You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others. — Gordon B. Hinckley
We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit. — Lisa Bonet
Digital transformation helps create new jobs, improves profits, and half of all revenues are influenced by digital. — Vladimer Botsvadze
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington. — Charles Koch
To me, the word profitable means sustainable – able to sustain a business that has a high degree of excellence. — John W. Henry
Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it, But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others - yes, and a lot less dangerous. — Dale Carnegie
The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real joy of living. — Walter Rauschenbusch
My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products. Everything else was secondary. Sure, it was great to make a profit, because that was what allowed you to make great products. But the products, not the profits were the motivation. — Steve Jobs
The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A lot of share-buying, not bargain-seeking, is designed to prop stock prices up. Thirty to 40 years ago, it was very profitable to look at companies that were aggressively buying their own shares. They were motivated simply to buy below what it was worth. — Charlie Munger
The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient. — Will Durant
Profit in business comes from repeat customers — W. Edwards Deming
The creative instinct has always been a stronger motive than mere profit to do truly new and revolutionary things. — Phil Karn
In business, the hungry ghost is the quest for more growth, more profit, more followers, more likes. — Paul Jarvis
When shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an economic support of every human right we possess and without it, all rights would disappear. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture. — Jane Fonda
Just as important, we need a new dedication to opening avenues for employee participation and motivation through profit-sharing and innovative programs of job enrichment. — Charles H. Percy
It's for management to enthuse & motivate employees towards excellence in service; the profit incentive doesn't last — Phil Harding
We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Business is all about solving people's problems - at a profit. — Paul Marsden
The profit motive promotes economic growth by creating better products at cheaper prices. — Mark Skousen
There is plenty of room to make a profit in a zero-carbon economy; but the profit motive is not going to be the midwife for that great transformation. — Naomi Klein
Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world. — Tom Scholz
He that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor. — Benjamin Franklin
That, to me, is a kind of brilliant environmental ju-jitsu - using the energy of the market and the profit-motive to get businesses to invest in preserving and improving natural systems. — Ramez Naam
I don't see much of a future for this planet. I think it's a cursed planet. The boundaries we've drawn between nations and the profit motive - those two factors have, in my opinion, brought us to the point where almost nothing can stop the utter destruction of the environment and all our earthly life-support systems. — George Carlin
However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution. — Steven Pinker
Capitalism is not about the profit motive. Capitalism is about free markets. What you do in the market, in your free will, is the essence of capitalism. — Muhammad Yunus
People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive. — Philip Yancey
The problem isn't that conservatives are wrong about the efficiency of markets or the creativity of enterprise. It's that they have made false idols of both, usually without acknowledging that markets work best when well regulated, that private enterprise cannot meet every human need, that government has always played a critical role in our economy, and that the profit motive can be socially and environmentally destructive as well as dynamic. — Joe Conason
The profit motive is not only fundamental to our ability to reward shareholders and pay employees; it's fundamental to excellent journalism. Far from corrupting the craft, profits enhance it. Expansion drives diversity and diversity protects and strengthens our craft. — Lachlan Murdoch
My head can get to murder and rape for profit because I can understand greed as a human motive, but I cannot understand the voyeuristic desire to watch such a film. I can comprehend one and I cannot comprehend the other. — Donna Leon
It's clear to me that many weapons sales are very short-sighted. The U.S. and other arms-producing countries sell weapons for a variety of reasons, but most sales involve strategic interest or profit motivation, or both. — Oscar Arias
I would argue that search has made the world a better place. It has done so for reasons that arbitrarily could completely change that - not arbitrarily at all but to completely change how that plays out based upon the needs of profitability. So it's totally unreliable and it has many layers nested underneath that of many ulterior motives nested underneath it. — Jonathon Keats
Who benefits from Wi-Fi? We all benefit from Wi-Fi. Is there an industry here? Of course, there is an industry, as well. The point is public health needs protecting. I don't think you should have to prove that there is some profiteer who might have an ulterior motive in order to protect public health. — Jill Stein
You shouldn't have a profit motivation to fill prison cells with young Americans. — Hillary Clinton
There is a lack of economic and political motivation to defend life in the oceans. The profit is made by companies exploiting the oceans and they have the money to buy the politicians who make the laws. — Paul Watson
There can be associations - enlightened businesses, for example - that do not work on the basis of us against them or wanting profit as the main motivating force behind what they do. — Eckhart Tolle
Take charity work for example; the motivation of my various charitable activities is neither for fame nor profits. It is my sincere wish that, through my efforts, more people can realize how important it is to protect our planet and to start to act for a change. — Li Bingbing
This present system by which industry is motivated exclusively by the quest for maximal profits - though it may have helped a great deal to develop, to industrialize our country so rapidly and so successfully - now it's clearly passed its usefulness. It is keeping us from achieving the ideal society that we should have. We say industry must produce to improve the quality of life for all our people. — Benjamin Spock
Personal initiative, competitive selection, the profit motive, corrected by failure and the infinite process of good housekeeping and the personal ingenuity-here constitute the life of a free society. — Winston Churchill
Animosity towards the merchant class has been around for centuries. Why? The goal of making a profit is quite obviously a self-serving motive. Other occupations, while equally self-serving, are better able to hide their motives. — James Cook
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