#profit

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. ↗

— Richard Rogers

#aesthetic #follows #form #our #principle

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

Hollywood is going to have to find a way of meeting those profit goals. ↗

— Peter Bart

#goals #going #hollywood #meeting #profit

What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank. ↗

— Bill Janklow

#actually #bank #citibank #did #get

Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#gangster #playing #profitable #unfortunately #very

Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#best #even #get #into #invested

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does. ↗

— Paul Samuelson

#companies #does #enterprises #europe #hardly

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles. ↗

— Paul Samuelson

#become #before #canals #internet #later

And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made. ↗

— Tom Scholz

#america #animal #animal life #big #cheap

Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world. ↗

— Tom Scholz

#letting #livable #loose #more #motive