Profit Quotes

“A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers, the people, the common man, prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and that governments prefer guns to butter. The entrepreneur does not make greater profits in selling bad things than in selling good things. His profits are the greater the better he succeeds in providing the consumers with those things they ask for most intensely.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

“He had been taught as a child that Urras was a festering mass of inequity, iniquity, and waste. But all the people he met, and all the people he saw, in the smallest country village, were well dressed, well fed, and contrary to his expectations, industrious. They did not stand about sullenly waiting to be ordered to do things. Just like Anaresti, they were simply busy getting things done. It puzzled him. He had assumed that if you removed a human being's natural incentive to work -- his initiative, his spontaneous creative energy -- and replaced it with external motivation and coercion, he would become a lazy and careless worker. But no careless workers kept those lovely farmlands, or made the superb cars and comfortable trains. The lure and compulsion of profit was evidently a much more effective replacement of the natural initiative than he had been led to believe.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“You can't sustain a business if profits aren't sustained.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance

“A balanced approach is attractive to top talent and investors who increasingly seek out companies with a strong sense of purpose beyond just profit.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance

“The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Planning for Freedom

“Not a single person has died of boredom reading this book.”
― Nicole Fende, How to be a Finance Rock Star

“Many small businesses would rather face an angry barbarian horde than tackle their cash flow statement or price a new product.”
― Nicole Fende, How to be a Finance Rock Star

“Business is all about solving people's problems - at a profit.”
― Paul Marsden

“I see dead Presidents. Lincoln, Jefferson, Franklin, and Washington.”
― Nicole Fende, How to be a Finance Rock Star

“If you don’t laugh reading this book I’ll eat my pocket protector. Wait, did I just admit I had a pocket protector?”
― Nicole Fende, How to be a Finance Rock Star

“Businesses can prioritize profit AND people AND planet. Businesses can add value and receive value in a multitude of ways.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.

“Profit, when pursued ethically, enables a company to attract and retain talent, fostering a culture of integrity and accountability.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., The Virtuous Boardroom: How Ethical Corporate Governance Can Cultivate Company Success

“Everything now is profit. I am what we’ve always been to the empire: pure, fucking profit. A natural resource to exploit and exploit, denigrate, and exploit.”
― Natasha Brown, Assembly

“Let’s be reminded that companies, and those of us who lead companies, don’t have to choose between Profit and Corporate Social Responsibility. In fact, if done right, the latter will enhance the former. Then the former will enhance the latter, and this should happen in endless cycles.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.

“Permaculture Investing™ offers a unique and compelling approach for conpanies seeking long-term financial resilience, consistent returns, and positive societal impact.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., Investing, The Permaculture Way: Mayflower-Plymouth's 12 Principles of Permaculture Investing

“The profit motive and the service motive aren’t mutually exclusive.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.

“Trying to do business without an understanding of value is like trying to be a competitive swimmer without an understanding of water.

Businesses, every day, are ‘swimming’ in exchanges of value with others.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.

“Whatever knowledge you have got that you don't put to work will not profit you.”
― Chidiebere Orji Agbugba

“Partnership is the best strategy for mass attracting new customers and increasing profit!”
― Ruben Nersesian, Sharks Strategy: Insider Secrets Successful Business People Use to Get Clients Without Advertising: The Step-by-Step Guide for Small Business & Entrepreneurs

“Profit is a reward for solving problems, not just selling products.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“Lovers of dishonesty caress you with one hand and 'steal' from you with the other. If there is no 'profit' for them, you will be cast down without any mercy.”
― Alex H. P. Brito

“Activism over profit. Character over capital.”
― Sai Marie Johnson

“ESG demands that businesses prove they're not just profit machines but responsible stakeholders.”
― Gun Gun Febrianza

“We do not lack the technology to solve our crises. We lack the courage to value life more than profit.”
― Lawrence Nault

“If you want to turn profit into poetry, hire a madman as your marketing guru—he’ll sell you the idea that the world is a circus, and you’ll gladly pay for the tickets while the audience watches you juggle the bills.”
― Unknown Author

“Know Prophet, Know Profit. No Prophet, No Profit.”
― Shamail Aijaz

“I was deeply concerned from my early teen days about the gulf between superfluous wealth and abject poverty, and my reading of Marx made me ever more conscious of this gulf. Although modern American capitalism had greatly reduced the gap through social reforms, there was still need for a better distribution of wealth. Moreover, Marx had revealed the danger of the profit motive as the sole basis of an economic system: capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity—thus capitalism can lead to a practical materialism that is as pernicious as the materialism taught by communism.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

“Fear is location specific. Which is not something people from Bent Tree usually learn because they rarely leave. But if you're not from somewhere rural, gunshots have a different connotation. Any bang-bang in the city and your adrenaline spikes. You lock the door. You pray.

At the Lodges, gunshots are like crickets; you don't hear them every day, but nearly. They are the sound of industry, and industry is money, and money makes you smile.”
― Court Stevens, Tell Me Something Good

“The dignity of work lies not in profit, but in its service to life.”
― Lawrence Nault