Profit Quotes
Lines on margins, growth, and the pull of financial gain.
These lines examine profit from a business lens, touching on shrinking margins in mature markets and manufacturers holding prices steady to protect their bottom line. One older observation notes that a taste for profit seems almost inborn. Compare with Finance for more on money and strategy.
Amazon has suffered quarters-long profit droughts. Alphabet has given its investors agita over profligate spending on non-core products. Microsoft's growth - if not its profit engine - stalled for years, causing its stock to idle, too.
The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isn't so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment.
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Emotion Quotes
It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new...
I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction.
In the U.S., PC-makers have no incentive to lower prices because it kills their profit margins. They keep adding new features like high-end retina displays and faster processors to justify their high prices.
Profit at any cost is one extreme of the spectrum. On the other extreme is unselfish submission for the social good or, more accurately, charity. Somewhere in the middle is peaceful, and much required, coexistence.
Finance Quotes
I plan to publicize my breakups and profit from them like other celebrities.
Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
A movie that costs only $1.6 million doesn't have to be a cultural event to turn a profit.
