#profit

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

Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#doing #institutions #maximize #maximizing #mean

What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone. ↗

— Frederick Tennyson

#be the first #echoes #first #forever #hath

I think anyone who uses the web is smart and will profit. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#i #i think #profit #smart #think

By the time I stepped down as Xerox's CEO in 2009 - and as chairman in January 2010 - Xerox had become the vibrant, profitable and revitalized company that it still is today. What made the difference was a strong turnaround plan, dedicated people and a firm commitment from company leaders. ↗

— Anne M. Mulcahy

#by the time #ceo #chairman #commitment #company

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit. ↗

— Tom Petty

#business #care #compared #innocent #know

When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music. ↗

— Tom Petty

#been #bell #decided #done #giving

Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields. ↗

— John Philips

#employ #great #hour #little #pains

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the "four P's" - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#concerned #executives #far #four #making