Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
—W. Edwards Deming (1900–93) American Engineer, Statistician
Biggest profits mean gravest risks.
—Chinese Proverb
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965) British Head of State, Political leader, Historian, Journalist, Author
There are only two things from which to choose: profit or loss.
—Indian Proverb
Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.
—Hubert Humphrey (1911–78) American Head of State, Politician
What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
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 that without it, all rights would soon disappear.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American Head of State, Military Leader
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
—Sophocles (495–405 BCE) Ancient Greek Dramatist
And gain is gain, however small.
—Robert Browning (1812–89) English Poet
Several weeks of summer vacation in the Thirties I spent working at $15 a week in the FORBES office…. I worked in the mail cage, where envelopes were slit and subscription payments extracted. Dad used to come pounding down the office aisle and pause long enough to ask, How much today? Inevitably the answer was inadequate-except once. That day the controller said excitedly, Mr. Forbes, the ledger shows a slight profit this month! … My father turned to him and said, Young man, I don’t give a damn what your books show. Do we have any money in the bank?
—Malcolm S. Forbes (1919–1990) American Publisher, Businessperson
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
—Plutarch (c.46–c.120 CE) Greek Biographer, Philosopher
Civilization and profits go hand in hand.
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American Head of State, Lawyer
Poets wish to profit or to please.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–59) French Historian, Political Scientist
The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.
—Honore de Balzac (1799–1850) French Novelist
Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.
—Bernard M. Baruch (1870–1965) American Financier, Economic Consultant
If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.
—Robert Quillen (1887–1948) American Journalist, Humorist
There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you can enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
—Bertrand A. Russell (1872–1970) British Philosopher, Mathematician, Social Critic
When there are two in a lawsuit only a third will profit from it.
—Chinese Proverb
It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965) British Head of State, Political leader, Historian, Journalist, Author
Higher prices are themselves inflation and not merely the result of it. They are accelerated and not stopped by taxation…. It isn’t high prices that persuade the high cost and marginal producer to make the investment necessary to bring him into production. It is the promise of profit. High prices without profit merely requires more investment to support turnover and inventory.
—Bernard M. Baruch (1870–1965) American Financier, Economic Consultant
If there is any profit in partnership, two will share a woman.
—African Proverb
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn’t be any fun living in it, or profit.
—Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) (1818–85) American Humorist, Author, Lecturer
When profit is unshared, it’s less likely to grow greater.
—Malcolm S. Forbes (1919–1990) American Publisher, Businessperson
The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
—John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) English Economist
A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.
—Arabic Proverb
It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.
—Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929) American Economist, Social Critic
Small profits are good if they come often.
—French Proverb
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer
Cut your losses and let your profits run.
—U.S. Proverb
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