86 Profit Sharing Quotes
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Famous Profit Sharing Quotes
Profit sharing in the form of stock distributions to workers would help to democratize the ownership of America's vast corporate wealth which is today appallingly undemocratic and unhealthy. — Walter Reuther
Those who want to share the gains, shall also share the losses. — Swedish Proverbs
Make your top managers rich and they will make you rich. — Robert H. Johnson
When somebody shares, everybody wins. — Jim Rohn
Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune. — Jim Rohn
Profit is the payment you get when you take advantage of change. — Joseph A. Schumpeter
He who shares the danger ought to share the prize. — Aesop
It's important to understand the compensation equation that a CEO and a founder has with his or her employees. — Chamath Palihapitiya
Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business. — Peter Lynch
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
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts. — John D. Rockefeller
All stakeholders must participate in the gains and losses of any particular situation. — Christine Lagarde
Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners. — Fred A. Allen
Don't organize for any other purpose than mutual benefit to the employer and the employee. — Mark Hanna
Short Profit Sharing Quotes
- Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn. — Earl Nightingale
- What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for? — Thomas Sowell
- Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success. — Jim Harbaugh
- Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise. — Peter Drucker
- In everything, there is a share of everything — Anaxagoras
- One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts. — Molly Ivins
Profit-sharing Quotes
The purpose of the corporation must be redefined as creating shared value, not just profit per se. This will drive the next wave of innovation and productivity growth in the global economy. — Michael Porter
Our confidence in Tesla has grown as we've done research on what ride-sharing potentially could add. It could limit the risks significantly, it's a much more profitable business than electric vehicles. — Cathie Wood
What makes stocks valuable in the long run isn't the market. It's the profitability of the shares in the companies you own. As corporate profits increase, corporations become more valuable and sooner or later, their shares will sell for a higher price. — Peter Lynch
We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth while millions are hungry and dying. We are committed to living simply and sharing our time, energy, and material resources with those who are in need. — Nhat Hanh
The establishment people tell us that if the workers wanted to share the profits, it was called communism. When management wants to share profits, it's called a bonus. — Phil Donahue
People share a universal behavioural trait: if there are profits to be made, the effort to get that money will attract investment. This is true in the private sector, the market sector, as well as the public sector. — James M. Buchanan
When you have mega-corporations that have record profits, but they don't want to share even a little bit of that with their workers, we are actually putting our communities at peril. — Nina Turner
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
Employers able to work together with workers and sharing gains and profits will lead to a much better world, getting away from income inequality. — Dolores Huerta
Japanese tend to put sales and market share first. They make many products with the aim of raising sales. But then profits decline, and companies find themselves falling into debt... I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first. — Fujio Mitarai
Business Profit Quotes
The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages. — David Ricardo
If one day we must sell something, first we want to turn it around and make it profitable. — Bernard Arnault
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
Picking the right customer to sell to is one of the highest leverage things you can do to make more money. — Alex Hormozi
Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being-let her receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life. — Lucretia Mott
The untold secret of McDonald’s is that when you sell a restaurant to a franchisee, sales typically go up a lot because the franchisees do a much better job managing the store. — Bill Ackman
No offer? No business. No life. Bad offer? Negative profit. No business. Miserable life. Decent offer? No profit. Stagnating business. Stagnating life. Good offer? Some profit. Okay business. Okay life. Grand Slam Offer? Fantastic profit. Insane business. Freedom. — Alex Hormozi
If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety,but profit. — Clement of Alexandria
But I would argue that the best businesses are the ones that are for-profit, sustainable and ethical so you can attract the best people. — Naval Ravikant
There is one and only one social responsibility of business - to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud. — Milton Friedman
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 Jim Rohn |
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 Joseph A. Schumpeter |
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 Walter Reuther |
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 Swedish Proverbs |
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 Aesop |
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 Chamath Palihapitiya |
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More Profit Sharing Quotes
We need real tax reform which makes the rich and profitable corporations begin to pay their fair share of taxes. We need a tax system which is fair and progressive. Children should not go hungry in this country while profitable corporations and the wealthy avoid their tax responsibilities by stashing their money in the Cayman Islands. — Bernie Sanders
Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway. — Anne Lamott
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
Thus a new way of finding fluidity will inevitably be imposed on management and labor alike. The profit-sharing, or "progress" sharing union contract is the only possible way of satisfying labor and the consumer without saddling industry with fixed costs that in depression periods can kill off marginal companies like flies. — John Chamberlain
Our people get profit-sharing checks. I got a report the other day that says that 84 percent of our people participate in our stock purchase program, where they can buy stock at a 15 percent discount. — David Neeleman
For equity markets, the combination of low interest rates, strong economic growth and low inflation has proved very beneficial, with global share markets rising solidly in each of the past three years. This has been underpinned by strong growth in profits so that, notwithstanding the rise in share prices, P/E ratios have been declining on average. — Ian Macfarlane
The survey findings reflect the growing trend toward incentive compensation programs as a way for employers to share the wealth with workers, ... Roughly 80 percent of those surveyed offer bonus programs and 401(k) or profit-sharing plans . . . as they compete for the best and brightest workforce. — Jerry Jasinowski
What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings. — William Inge
A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More people are realizing that bonuses look like raises, but really aren't. — Al Bauman
I believe in an America in which the fruits of productivity and prosperity are shared by all, by workers as well as owners, by those at the bottom as well as those at the top; an America in which the sacrifices required by national security are shared by all, by profiteers in the back offices as well as volunteers on the front lines. — Theodore C. Sorensen
Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens. — J. M. Roberts
A historic investment in jobs, debt-free college, profit sharing, making those at the top pay their fair share, putting families first in a modern economy and a democracy where working people's voices are actually heard. That is what we are fighting for in this election. — Hillary Clinton
Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations. — Sam Walton
I want to see more companies do profit-sharing. If you help create the profits, you should be able to share in them, not just the executives at the top. — Hillary Clinton
No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
[Simon Segars ] came by a few times.I told him, "If you understand the future of the internet of things that much, then you should add more engineers and go on the offensive." Simon had explained to analysts and others that he intended to do that sort of forward-looking investment, but he said it's tough for a listed company considering its share price falls if profits drop. — Masayoshi Son
People work hard and companies make big profits, but employees don't see that they share in the wealth they help to create. — Mariana Mazzucato
I don`t think most people would want me to have a business relationship as a senator where my business partners can reap the benefit of my position and I one day get the share the profits. — Lindsey Graham
If you help create the profits, you should be able to share in them, not just the executives at the top. — Hillary Clinton
The US is to an unusual extent a business-run society, where short-term concerns of profit and market share displace rational planning. — Noam Chomsky
We began to temper Western democracy with what I'd call a social contract. We put in Social Security, graduated income tax, workers' compensation. We developed strong unions to negotiate with business owners so workers got an equitable share of the profits. — John Shelby Spong
Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens. — John Roberts
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. That the speaking profits me, beyond any other effect....what I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid? ...Death on the other hand, is the final silence...my silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you. — Audre Lorde
Some corporations don't want free markets, and they don't want democracy. They want profits. And they use our campaign finance system to loot our commons, to steal from our treasury, and the other shared resources of our community - the air, the water, the public lands, the wildlife, the things that belong to all of us that are held in trust for future generations. Corporations cannot act philanthropically in America. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
And maybe the cereal makers by and large have learned to be less crazy about fighting for market share-because if you get even one person who's hell-bent on gaining market share.... For example, if I were Kellogg and I decided that I had to have 60% of the market, I think I could take most of the profit out of cereals. I'd ruin Kellogg in the process. But I think I could do it. — Charlie Munger
I don't agree with the copyright laws and I don't have a problem with people downloading the movie and sharing it with people as long as they're not doing it to make a profit off my labor. You share things with people and I think information, and art, and ideas should be shared. — Michael Moore
I remember my sense of shock some half-dozen years ago when I read a recommendation to sell shares of a company ... The recommendation was not based on any long-term fundamentals. Rather, it was that over the next six months the funds could be employed more profitably elsewhere. — Philip Arthur Fisher
Socialism will be here the day we share our profits to the degree we share our failures. — Malcolm Forbes
If one individual, or one class, can call in the aid of authority to ward off the effects of competition, it acquires a privilege and at the cost of the whole community; it can make sure of profits not altogether due to the productive services rendered, but composed in part of an actual tax upon consumers for its private profit' which tax it commonly shares with the authority that thus unjustly lent its support. — Jean-Baptiste Say
Bearing in mind that "the market" is not an invention of capitalism but that it has existed for thousands of years in many different societies, social justice logically requires that the profits resulting from the operation of markets and infrastructures created by society be equitably shared within societies and in a larger context within the human family. — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
Our economic assistance must be carefully targeted, and must make maximum use of the energy and efforts of the private sector... Economic freedom is the world's mightiest engine for abundance and social justice... Developing countries need to be encouraged to experiment with a growing variety of arrangements for profit sharing and expanded capital ownership. — Ronald Reagan
On the basis of his work each person is fully entitled to consider himself a part owner of the great workbench at which he is working with everyone else. A way toward that goal could be found by associating labor with the ownership of capital joint ownership of the means of work, sharing by the workers in the management and/or profits of businesses, so-called shareholding by labor, etc. — Pope John Paul II
The history of the past fifty years, and longer, indicates that a diversified holding of representative common stocks will prove more profitable over a stretch of years than a bond portfolio, with one important provisio that the shares must be purchased at reasonable market levels, that is, levels that are reasonable in the light of fairly well-defined standards derived from past experience. — Benjamin Graham
Organizations are not really "owned" by anyone. What formerly constituted ownership was split up into stockholders' rights to share in profits, management's power to set policy, employees' right to status and security, government's right to regulate. Thus older forms of wealth were replaced by new forms. — Charles A. Reich
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