#profit

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

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So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit who just so happens to be a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, we want that same consideration. ↗

— Chuck Zito

#club #consideration #gain #guys #handful

It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce. ↗

— David Ricardo

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Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production. ↗

— David Ricardo

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The facility of obtaining food is beneficial in two ways to the owners of capital, it at the same time raises profits and increases the amount of consumable commodities. ↗

— David Ricardo

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There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits. ↗

— David Ricardo

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Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent. ↗

— David Ricardo

#belonging #cultivation #equal #land #ordinary

You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon. ↗

— Jim Rogers

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Like the vast majority of my constituents, I continue to be concerned about record profits reported by petroleum companies at a time when consumers are paying record high prices for gasoline. ↗

— Mike Rogers

#companies #concerned #constituents #consumers #continue

An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made. ↗

— Daymond John

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