To me, the word profitable means sustainable – able to sustain a business that has a high degree of excellence. — John W. Henry
Try to find a business that you can understand, that’s not particularly complicated, that has a successful long-term track record, makes an attractive profit and can grow over time. — Bill Ackman
Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise. — Warren Buffett
Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself. — Phil Crosby
No matter how profitable, stay away from men, companies and ventures that are based on defrauding rather than helping their customers. — Thomas Phelps
Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise. — Peter Drucker
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. — Andy Warhol
Look for companies with high profit margins. — Warren Buffett
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
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. — Henry Ford
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
The #1 business opportunity for those who want to create new wealth is educating consumers about products and services that will improve their lives. — Paul Zane Pilzer
If a business does well, the stock eventually follows. — Warren Buffett
You do not require an invitation to make profits. — Dhirubhai Ambani
In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property. — Charles Handy
What helps people, helps business. — Leo Burnett
In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable 'moats'. — Warren Buffett
Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.
Business Quotes
If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard. — Madam C. J. Walker
A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ. — Jonathan Edwards
Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. — Karl Marx
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker
Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever. — Walt Disney
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau
People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.
If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die. — Warren Buffett
I don't believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right. — Ratan Tata
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it. — Abraham Lincoln
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again. — Abraham Maslow
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
When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.
Picking the right customer to sell to is one of the highest leverage things you can do to make more money. — Alex Hormozi
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
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
Instead of complaining about your circumstances, get busy and create some new ones.
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
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
Successful Business Quotes
Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi
I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. — Bill Gates
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. — Albert Einstein
There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs. — Zig Ziglar
Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives. — Michelle Obama
Give them quality. That's the best kind of advertising. — Milton S. Hershey
Love your parents. We are so busy growing up, we often forget they are also growing old.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. — Norman Vincent Peale
Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries. — Jim Rohn
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. — Steve Jobs
Profitable Growth 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
When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one. — Paul Brunton
The idea that growth equals profitability is a misconception. If you can't afford the financial or qualitative side of growth, it can just as easily put you out of business. — Mark Cuban
Train people well enough so they can leave. Treat the well enough so they don't want to.
Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors. — Benjamin Graham
Profitability is where growth takes place. — Rush Limbaugh
My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.
Our goal is long-term growth in revenue and absolute profit - so we invest aggressively in future innovation while tightly managing our short-term costs. — Larry Page
Every time I go into a new venture, I find a "rabbi" who has the business acumen to help me understand the mechanics of that industry, the costs involved in developing a product, and what you need to do in order to make a profit. — Russell Simmons
Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest. We can talk about sales growth, profit growth, asset growth, but all of this probably will not happen without personal growth. — Jim Rohn
In business, the hungry ghost is the quest for more growth, more profit, more followers, more likes. — Paul Jarvis
Good Profit Quotes
Yes, it's important to make things great, and you can certainly do this by upgrading over time, but good and profitable is better than perfect and never done. — Lewis Howes
A deal is nothing without good implementation. Poor implementation is the cancer that eats your profits. — Chris Voss
If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God. — Meister Eckhart
Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
My relationship to luxury goods is really very rational. It is the only area in which it is possible to make luxury profit margins. — Bernard Arnault
Most investors are too eager to sell a good position with a small profit rather than hold on for a larger gain. — Thomas Phelps
Good information architecture makes users less alienated and suppressed by technology. It simultaneously increases human satisfaction and your company's profits. Very few jobs allow you to do both at the same time, so enjoy. — Jakob Nielsen
Either get busy living or get busy dying.
Whatever is goode in its kinde ought to be preserv'd in respect for antiquity, as well as our present advantage, for destruction can be profitable to none but such as live by it. — Nicholas Hawksmoor
If we cannot make a profit, that means we are committing a sort of crime against society. We take society's capital, we take their people, we take their materials, yet without a good profit, we are using precious resources that could be better used elsewhere. — Konosuke Matsushita
Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts. — Jo Walton
When profit margins of a whole industry rise because of repeated price increases, the indication is not a good one for the long-range investor. — Philip Arthur Fisher
Making Profit Quotes
Authentic marketing is not the art of selling what you make but knowing what to make. It is the art of identifying and understanding customer needs and creating solutions that deliver satisfaction to the customers, profits to the producers and benefits for the stakeholders. — Philip Kotler
If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice, anger, pride and stupidity commonly profit far beyond charity, modesty, justice and thought, perhaps we must stand fast a little, even at the risk of being heroes. — Thomas More
Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con. — Toni Morrison
Focus on being productive instead of busy.
It's a world where I take 10 grand and light it on fire and make 20 grand. — MrBeast
That's where it makes things a little weird on me, because if I make them pay taxes on stuff then I look like a piece of sh-t, but if I pay taxes on it - on something that's already not really profitable. — MrBeast
If you create something, you don't want someone else to go and profit from it; you have your right to make a living and everything. — Kim Dotcom
You want a product to be unique. You don’t want it to be a commodity that everyone else can sell. Because when you sell a commodity – anyone can sell it and they can sell it at a better price and it’s very hard to make a profit doing that. — Bill Ackman
Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold. — William Moulton Marston
Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there's a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable. — Gabe Newell
A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture. — Uwe Boll
Business Revenue Quotes
How many businesses do you know that want to cut their revenue in half? That's why the healthcare system won't change the healthcare system. — Rick Scott
A Company of One is not anti-growth, or anti-revenue, and it’s not just a one-person business either (although it certainly can be). — Paul Jarvis
If your largest source of revenue stopped paying you or disappeared, could your business survive for at least six months? — Cliff Lerner
To be successful and grow your business and revenues, you must match the way you market your products with the way your prospects learn about and shop for your products. — Brian Halligan
Every successful business creates or provides something of value that other people want or need at a price they're willing to pay, in a way that satisfies the purchaser's needs and expectations and provides the business sufficient revenue to make it worthwhile for the owners to continue operation. — Josh Kaufman
It’s not about revenues: the fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line. — Yuri Milner
Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size. — Yuri Milner
Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it. — Meg Whitman
Nevada once again has shown double digit increases in tax revenue... Nevada continues to show economic stability with its desirable business climate and booming tourism sector. — Kenny Guinn
Government spending is being restrained, the economy is making progress and moving forward, and the pro-growth, tax cutting policies put in place have allowed businesses to grow, which has brought in additional tax revenue to help pay off the debt. — Bill Shuster
In plain words, pricing this way means you are providing a service at just above what it costs for you to stay above water. We are not trying to stay barely above water. We are trying to make egregious amounts of money that will have your relatives asking if what you are doing is legal. Again, we are not trying to get the most customers. We are trying to make the most money. — Alex Hormozi
Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves. — Andrew Carnegie
Sustainability at Nike means being laser-focused on evolving our business model to deliver profitable growth while leveraging the efficiencies of lean manufacturing, minimizing our environmental impact and using the tools available to us to bring about positive change across our entire supply chain. — Mark Parker
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit. — George Grosz
I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington. — Charles Koch
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
The difference between most mothers and me is that I didn't sit around drinking coffee at baby group for 12 months after the birth of my baby. No, in three weeks I was back in my suit, back at my desk earning profit for my business and I don't see why other women shouldn't do the same. — Sayings
The message from Wal-Mart today to the rest of the business community is there need not be any conflict between the environment and the economy. We will find the way not only to reconcile (those), but to find new profits and new opportunities as we do the right thing. — Al Gore
A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget. — John F. Kennedy
Knowledge, profits, dividends, valuation, conduct of business, resolve — Howard Marks
There are a handful of companies who understand all successful business operations come down to three basic principles; People---Product---Profit. Without top people, you cannot do much with the other two. — Malcolm Forbes
Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and employees, not objectives. — Jack Ma
Startups don’t fail because they lack a product; they fail because they lack customers and a profitable business model. — Steve Blank
Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change. With Wrigley chewing gum, it's the lack of change that appeals to me. I don't think it is going to be hurt by the Internet. That's the kind of business I like. — Warren Buffett
...there is no more strategic issue for a company, or any organization, than its ultimate purpose. For those who think business exists to make a profit, I suggest they think again. Business makes a profit to exist. Surely it must exist for some higher, nobler purpose than that. — Ray Anderson
I have no interest in being the biggest, the most profitable or the largest retailer. I just want The Body Shop to be the best, most breathlessly exciting company - and one that changes the way business is carried out. — Anita Roddick
If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This task is open-ended. It can never be finished. But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world. — Bill Gates
Businesses just want to increase their profits; it's up to the government to make sure they distribute enough of those profits so workers have the money to buy the goods they produce. It's no mystery - the less poverty, the more commerce. The most important investment we can make is in human resources. — Jose Mujica
Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper. — Kazuo Inamori
Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable. — James Rouse
Something out of the ordinary course of business is taking place that creates an investment opportunity. The list of corporate events that can result in big profits for you runs the gamut—spinoffs, mergers, restructurings, rights offerings, bankruptcies, liquidations, asset sales, distributions. — Joel Greenblatt
We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering — Franklin D. Roosevelt
There are now businesses and entire industries that exist solely as a result of federal patronage. Profiting from government instead of earning profits in the economy, such businesses can continue to succeed even if they are squandering resources and making products that people wouldn't ordinarily buy. — Charles Koch
Profit isn't and shouldn't be the mission of business. The mission of business is to help people. To help your customers, your co-workers, your employees, and your partners. Success is not a number - it's not X dollars or Y customers - it's a measurement of VALUE. — Fran Tarkenton
Profits are the driving force of the market economy. The greater the profits, the better the needs of the consumers are supplied... He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits. — Ludwig von Mises
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits. — Lee Iacocca
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