#profits

The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#earn #everyone #few #goods #guiding

Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required. ↗

— James Buchan

#business #depend #higher #interest #profit

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

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

The food industry profits from providing poor quality foods with poor nutritional value that people eat a lot of. ↗

— Mark E. Hyman

#food #food industry #foods #industry #lot

Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. ↗

— William Moulton Marston

#defeat #important #knowledge #offers #personality

Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right. ↗

— John Milton

#just #more #nothing #profits #right

During the period of capital moving from one employment to another, the profits on that to which capital is flowing will be relatively high, but will continue so no longer than till the requisite capital is obtained. ↗

— David Ricardo

#capital #continue #during #employment #flowing

Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production. ↗

— David Ricardo

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The facility of obtaining food is beneficial in two ways to the owners of capital, it at the same time raises profits and increases the amount of consumable commodities. ↗

— David Ricardo

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