#profit

Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China. ↗

— John Bruton

#american companies #china #companies #country #indeed

It breaks even. We lose ten, twenty grand every year. But then the people who are working say, Look, I'll kick this back in, I don't need to take this profit share. It's very cooperative. ↗

— John Zorn

#breaks #cooperative #even #every #grand

You know, I've got experiences going back to the wage price controls in the Nixon administration where, in effect, we had what I think was a terrible mistake, in that case a Republican administration, where moved in and tried to control the wages, prices and profits of every enterprise in America. It was a huge mistake. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#america #back #case #control #controls

As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#consequences #devotion #distasteful #doctrines #economic

The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive. ↗

— Lee Child

#big #bigger #british #cliff #either

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them. ↗

— W. Edwards Deming

#about #boast #bring #comes #customers

A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable. ↗

— Finley Peter Dunne

#lie #most #profitable #purpose #worst

Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit. ↗

— Larry Elder

#exist #most #people #private #private sector

So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn't making - let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year. ↗

— Donald Trump

#because #big #billion #business #call

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#bottom #bottom line #consider #integrity #line