#profit

Our communications services revenue growth is being driven by continued strong top-line performance in data, Internet and international - three of the fastest growing and most profitable areas within communications services. ↗

— Bernard Ebbers

#being #communications #continued #data #driven

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

— Alvin Toffler

#esteemed #goes #into #know #least

The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#business #capital #exists #great #money

A movie that costs only $1.6 million doesn't have to be a cultural event to turn a profit. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#cultural #event #million #movie #only

When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#comes #down #go #happen #market

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#age #almost #any #completes #costs

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 State grows up. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#finds #foundations #grows #helps #incident

The media love coarse debate because coarse debate drives ratings and ratings generate profits. Unless the TV producer happens to be William Shakespeare, an argument is more interesting than a soliloquy - and there will never be a shortage of people willing to argue on TV. ↗

— John Sununu

#argument #because #coarse #debate #drives

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

— Plutarch

#even #how #know #listen #profit

Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable. ↗

— James Rouse

#legitimate #need #people #product #profit