#profits

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

A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits? ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#fair #observer #only #profits #violence

Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial - but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#bed #book #changed #congenial #corporate

U.S. companies rely on the European market for more than half of their global foreign profits. ↗

— John Bruton

#european #foreign #global #half #market

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. ↗

— Smedley Butler

#international #lives #losses #only #profits

It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining. ↗

— James Hogg

#drive #folds #force #gather #hands

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#end #in the end #operations #people #product

In the business world, lower profits reflect less demand for your product. But in government the opposite is true - demand for our services increases in hard times. ↗

— Sonny Perdue

#business world #demand #government #hard #hard times

If oil companies were to invest their high profits into alternative fuel research it will help America move toward new forms of energy. ↗

— Rick Renzi

#america #companies #energy #forms #fuel

The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry. ↗

— Vince Cable

#because #british #culture #existing #focusing