Profit Quotes

• Your profits reflect the success of your customers.

  Ron Kaufman

  Customers

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• Profit is what happens when you do everything else right.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Happens

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• Profit isn't a purpose, it's a result. To have purpose means the things we do are of real value to others.

  Simon Sinek

  Real, Mean, Purpose

  Twitter post from Jun 27, 2013

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• Profit is like oxygen, food, water, and blood for the body; they are not the point of life, but without them, there is no life.

  James C. Collins

  Oxygen, Blood, Water

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• Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.

  Tony Hsieh

  Great Business, Good Business, Missions

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• Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence.

  Henry Ford

  Running, Courage, Trying

  "How to live long and prosper" by Simon Caulkin, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2002.

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• In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.

  Lee Iacocca

  Business, Work, People

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.176, Bantam

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• When you see someone who has turned his passion into a profit, ask yourself, ‘Why not me?

  Donny Deutsch

  Passion, Why Not, Asks

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• He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Highest

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• The promise of every product and service is a better life. Profits are the prize for delivering on the promise.

  Patrick Dixon

  Promise, Better Life, Prize

  Patrick Dixon (2005). “Building a Better Business: The Key to Future Marketing, Management and Motivation”, p.86, Profile Books

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• Business is about profit, yes, and it is about more than profit. At its best, it is about expanding the possibilities of humanity.

  Jon Miller

  Humanity, Possibility, Expanding

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• Business is all about solving people's problems - at a profit.

  Paul Marsden

  Motivational, Business, People

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• Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Happiness, Joy

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• Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Inspirational, Business, Loyal Customers

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• Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.

  Alvin Toffler

  Sausage, Knows

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• 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

  Believe, Growth, Self Help

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• Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.

  Plato

  Wise, Honey, Herbs

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  Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Future, Past

  Speech by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Mark Hoban MP, to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Credit Unions, www.gov.uk. June 30, 2010.

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  A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Being Strong, Wisdom, Stay Strong

  John C. Maxwell (2001). “The Power of Leadership”, p.18, David C Cook

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• Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.

  Scott Adams

  Business, Smart, Differences

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• Profit in business comes from repeat customers

  W. Edwards Deming

  Loyal Customers, Focus In Business, Great Customer Service

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• Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

  Plutarch

  Inspirational, Empathy, Advice

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• 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

  Mean, People, Crime

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• Truly visionary and successful companies have discovered that there is no conflict between the pursuit of profit and having a pursuit beyond profit.

  David Maister

  Inspiring, Successful, Visionaries

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• The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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