#profit

Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#companies #contributing #cultural #culture #death

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome. ↗

— Benjamin Whichcote

#esteem #politicians #principles #profitable #religion

What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every time you love without calculating a return -- every time you make your drudgeries and routines still more inefficient by stopping to experience the shock of beauty wherever it unpredictably flickers. ↗

— Peter Viereck

#art #beauty #conservatism #freedom #inefficiency

The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not. ↗

— Eric Anderson

#government #motivated #often #private #private sector

Profit is so very fluctuating that the person who carries on a particular trade cannot always tell you himself what is the average of his annual profit. It is affected not only by every variation of price in the commodities which he deals in, but by the good or bad fortune both of his rivals and of his customers, and by a thousand other accidents to which goods when carried either by sea or by land, or even when stored in a warehouse, are liable. It varies, therefore, not only from year to year, but from day to day, and almost from hour to hour. To ascertain what is the average profit of all the different trades carried on in a great kingdom must be much more difficult; and to judge of what it may have been formerly, or in remote periods of time, with any degree of precision, must be altogether impossible. But though it may be impossible to determine, with any degree of precision, what are or were the average profits of stock, either in the present or in ancient times, some notion may be formed of them from the interest of money. It may be laid down as a maxim, that wherever a great deal can be made by the use of money, a great deal will commonly be given for the use of it; and that wherever little can be made by it, less will commonly be given for it. According, therefore, as the usual market rate of interest varies in any country, we may be assured that the ordinary profits of stock must vary with it, must sink as it sinks, and rise as it rises. The progress of interest, therefore, may lead us to form some notion of the progress of profit. ↗

— Adam Smith

#money

I believe that the profits will come from the quality of your creative products. Since the beginning, I've always wanted to develop a self-feeding circle of creative productions: the positive financial returns from one show would be used to develop and create a new show, and so on. ↗

— Guy Laliberte

#beginning #believe #circle #come #create

Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#badly #been #by the time #consumer #corn

If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

#christ #color #coming #considerable #considerable number

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#defeating #leads #legislation #party #purpose

The one thing people seem to forget is the more oil we have, the lower the price and the lower the profits the oil companies make. ↗

— David Pratt

#forget #lower #make #more #oil