Quotes about Profits

The fact is that one side thinks that the profits to be won outweigh the risks to be incurred, and the other side would rather avoid danger than accept an immediate loss.

Thucydides

The continued low-priced, high-volume assault on the U.S. market by Chinese activated carbon is destroying the profitability of the domestic industry, despite its best efforts to reduce costs and maintain pricing and profits.

David Hartquist

They're in chaos. They're as far from unity as a knife fight. They're stabbing each other in the back over profits on a proposal that doesn't have great odds of passage in the first place.

David Zanotti

As sales and profits continue to expand despite surging basic material prices, Japanese firms are willing to boost investment to deal with growing demand.

Taro Saito

It is what we were looking for, strong growth especially in emerging markets which has supported group profits.

Sandy Chen

The world is a difficult place for phone companies. The margins and profits for companies like Telstra in earlier years were based on an environment that no longer exists.

Hans Kunnen

We're expecting operating profits to increase by 20% [to $4.4 billion] for the quarter, aided by strong sales in the U.S. and Asia and the weaker yen.

Tsuyoshi Mochimaru

Stocks are only getting cheaper and cheaper, and the U.S. economy is strong as are corporate profits. I was bearish on U.S. equities earlier this year but have now turned positive.

Claes Ahrel

When the tiger kills, the jackal profits.

Afghan Proverb

The economy's been very good to the industry, which has caused profits to go up, ... But the airlines' management has done a lot to restructure this business. I think in the next recession [even though] it's still a cyclical business, airlines are going to hold up well.

Raymond Neidl

It could be an economic recovery and a profits recession.

David Bowers

The judge is saying that the fair market value is $50 million, and what we're saying is that you also have to add the $89 million that [the jury] had in their for 10 years of lost profits.

Willie Gary

Its win-win. The non-profits benefit and the students benefit.

Jan Reid

We expect the forthcoming interim results to be poor in comparison to 2004, although it has to be said the vast majority of profits are made in the second half in the run-in to Christmas.

David O'brien

A growing number of people may see companies in the private sector as putting profits before people and before ethics.

John Challenger

Tax cuts would probably flow directly into corporate profits. Companies are lean and mean today, compared with where they were ten years ago and if the economy is going to be stimulated by either tax cuts or new spending, I would prefer tax cuts. I would prefer the approach that is more profit friendly so I guess that means I don't prefer Al Gore's approach.

Christine Callies

If you're asking if we should reinvest all our profits, I'm all for it. But I don't think our shareholders would understand.

Alexander Ryazanov

Clearly, we put in place a platform for solid, sustainable growth in both sales and profits. All the pieces are in place for another excellent year in 2006.

Mackey Mcdonald

Inflation is not something you can put back in the bottle very easily. Rising interest rates and inflation would affect corporate profits and make valuations look overdone and stocks look expensive.

Tim Hayes

The economy is performing well enough to be producing pretty good profits under last year's rules. But we don't know what the profits are going to be under the new rules.

Tom Gallagher

What happens in Washington has a much greater effect on all the for-profits. Regulatory issues have come to the forefront.

Sean Gallagher

It's shocking that this has come about just as Air Canada is showing such massive profits.

Bill Pearson

We want to put pressure on the big oil companies and place an attack on excess profits and we also are going to have to keep a close eye on any price gouging.

Rosa Delauro

Convergence is not a trend, it's a necessity. To maintain a competitive lead in exotic technologies takes a lot, so a lot of key devices are driven by the consumer market because that market offers the kind of scale necessary for profits.

Robert Mueller

The decline was mainly brought on by weak profits at our securities subsidiary.

Victor Kung

1998 was another landmark year for Yahoo!. We consistently and carefully managed the business, executed our original plan and invested in growing the company while increasing profits each quarter.

Tim Koogle

You'd better spend a little more on R&D to lower your profits because you're going to lose them one way or another. The sentiment toward the oil companies is pretty negative in government right now.

Janna Sampson

There is an improvement in the overall economic atmosphere and a better than expected increase in company profits due to tax reductions. But share- prices were still overvalued.

Nashwa Saleh

The global marketplace is ripe for African countries to fill an important need, become an important player in the world energy market, and reap the deserved profits from these services.

Rodney Ellis

You can't just go out and take somebody's opportunity. Edge Group does an end run around Roche, and the Roche Group loses the opportunity and interest and expected profits.

Michael Sherman

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

Heinrich Heine

If WinCE devices cannibalize PC laptop sales, Microsoft's profits get eroded.

Matthew Nordan

It is challenging to earn profits with today's high fuel costs while maintaining low-cost fares. We are always looking to be creative with our service.

Brandon Hamm

If U.S. bonds seem rich to global (mainly Asian) investors in currency terms as the dollar appreciates, they will take profits on the appreciated assets.

David Goldman

Although their market share is going up, this is putting pressure on their margins and profits.

Carolina Milanesi

The strength of profits certainly suggest the business sector is currently running at a decent clip.

Steve Ryan

The wording suggests that at least as far as indoor is concerned we will not see profits growing by more than 10 percent. I had initial 2006 profits rising by around 16 percent for indoor.

Henrik Schultz

Even if you get a nomination for best picture but have no chance in hell of winning you can reap incredible profits at the box office.

Gitesh Pandya

Matsushita's earnings look fairly strong, when compared with some manufacturers like Sony, whose higher quarterly profits were mainly due to a fall in the yen.

Zenshiro Mizuno

They haven't changed (their bias). The weakness in corporate profits is a problem, and investment continues to decline.

Kevin Logan

You get the customer, the primary customer, which is the child, in the door, and then the adult will also typically buy something else, adding to revenues and profits.

Dean Haskell

The market has been choppy because it's trying to figure out where oil prices are going to go, how fast interest rates will rise, and what these two things mean for corporate profits. It's going to remain choppy until it gets more clarity.

Vince Farrell

This year profits are going to be down on last year [but] most of them will still make money.

Geoff Miller

Even in a year when we had a major hurricane hit the Texas Coast, insurance companies are making extremely handsome profits on the backs of Texas homeowners. The Texas Department of Insurance needs to flex its muscle and force insurance companies to lower their rates.

Alex Winslow

Business owners are not trying to determine if a person is documented or not, or that the documents are valid and legal per se. We are in business to conduct business and bring in profits.

Daniel Jara

For more than two decades, Xerox has revolutionized the digital production printing industry -- and we will continue to lead at Print 05. We're not just showing the latest digital printing technology. We are also giving customers the information they need to implement the technology to grow their businesses and increase profits.

Quincy Allen

The fact that oil companies are enjoying record profits when consumers are paying record high prices does not sit well with people.

Tyson Slocum

If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It's a process of innovation.

Jerry Greenfield

In our private banking division, declining securities revenues due to lower activity in the U.S.A. was the principal reason for lower profits.

Deutsche Bank

These guys are global companies. Goldman has half its revenues come from outside the U.S.. They can find profits wherever they need to.

David Trone

We've gone through a period where everything has gone right for company profits, but over the past 12 months some cracks have started to develop.

Brian Redican

We're still in a profits recession.

David Sowerby

We had three fantastic years; you have to pay for those along the line. There will be a period where profits will be under pressure. But our numbers say globally it shouldn't be a collapse.

Mark Page

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

We have seen a good three or four days of trading so (investors) are taking profits at this point.

Todd Kapala

Laws to allow companies to use their profits gained in the United States to build plants overseas and then file bankruptcy just in the United States.

George Anthony

Can they make profits (in China )? Yes.

Michael Dunne

She is so cold and so hard and so neurotic because of what she's done. She's immensely wealthy - making profits of a Meryl-Made line of clothing and so forth. But she is so deeply compromised because of all of this.

Peter Weir

Because the old rate, if you will, didn't produce enough profits.

Catherine Williams

The top-line growth rate was generally slower than expected, but that doesn't appear to have held profits back.

Peter Cartwright

The body only profits a little from exercising but the spirit profits a lot.

Billy Blanks

The catalyst for deals is generally rising corporate profits, ... We should have rising activity next year.

Richard Peterson

There will be dips as players take profits ... but the market continues to set its sights on reaching $600.

Koji Suzuki

What we're looking at, as we look ahead a few years, is a default, a half-finished site and a developer who walks away with potentially over half a billion dollars in profits and fees. We simply can't allow that to happen.

Dan Doctoroff

Lower rates on loans will create quite tough conditions for consumer lenders because interest income accounts for the majority of their revenue. It's almost impossible to foresee clearly what their profits will be.

Hideo Arimura

I think to grow rapidly is absolutely fundamental, you need capital, you need investment. To grow off your own profits is a much slower build, and I think also as a designer you need a business back-up, the business acumen.

Amanda Wakeley

It's a showcase in whether Merck can show that they acted in a morally correct way and that they did not put profits over people's safety.

Victor Schwartz

We wouldn't be surprised to see some moderation in earnings growth. But then we see few airlines in our region making healthy profits with oil prices at these levels.

Peter Negline

Major disasters involving heavy loss of life have just shot up. It's in direct correlation to profits and production. They're ignoring safety in the interest of bringing the coal up to the surface.

Robin Munro

I think athletics makes higher profits than almost any other industry. I think athletics makes higher profits than almost any other industry. We don't subsidize anybody else to help them build facilities to help them make more money.

Joyce Merrill

The trend has not changed in that a recovery in corporate profits is leading to rises in capital spending.

Takumi Tsunoda

All of the prizes were and auction items were donated, so none of the night's profits has to go back to pay for any of that. All of the proceeds go to H.O.P.E.

Kelly Barnes

Aegis delivered record revenues and profits in 2005, with organic revenue growth of 7.2 pct. With a healthy outlook in our markets, the benefits of our investment into fast-growing areas, and the consumer-centric approach we bring to the marketing mix, I am confident we will deliver further good results in 2006.

Robert Lerwill

The fact is the market went up a lot, and whenever there is a reason to take profits, people will take profits.

Ian Nakamoto

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

W. Somerset Maugham

[GM and other auto makers also will be hard-pressed to make the $15,000-plus in per-vehicle profits they made back then.] We aren't riding on these [new] vehicles to save the company, ... There are a number of other attractive alternatives in the market.

Gary White

Rising raw material and energy prices have continued to push up costs and hit profits.

John Cridland

Rather than let this collection gather dust in my basement … I thought this would be the perfect way to honor my husband by handing over whatever profits might come from this sale to my son for his two daughters' college fund.

Barbara Parker

NOTHING contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.

David Ricardo

We're acting to protect the US financial sector from this network's tainted drug profits, as well as ensure Wei and his cohorts can't use the American financial system to move or launder their opium proceeds.

Robert Werner

In the beginning it wasn't that much. But after it became a big deal in the media, I probably got anywhere between $400 and $600 a week in profits.

Charlie Good

Time is money. Yves Saint Laurent is eating up a quarter of Gucci's profits. How long can they afford that?

Carlo Pambianco

You pay the first 15 days in advance, plus the fuel and the cost of stopping in a port. That expense is on our credit cards for a week, then, we get that back, plus our profits, if all goes well and the weather stays good.

Christopher Hughes

These results are not spectacular. If you don't take one-offs into account, the net profits are lower than expected.

Ivan Lathouders

Corporations held back over the past few years while profits remained strong, so they're now investing in people and building capacity for continued growth.

Dave Brennan

Mergers offer a faster way of achieving our longtime goal of an economy of scale, which is very important [in making profits].

Barry Lam

We're driving the cost. You cannot generate healthy profits if you don't get the volume in the low end.

Ron Garriques

The fees and high profits have pushed real estate running up.

Xiao Zhuoji

Funds are choosing to lock in their profits after decent gains recently and more profit-taking will likely occur in coming sessions.

Chen Huiqin

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

Usually it's someone who's taking rare books where they have some marketability and hope for huge profits.

Leslie Burger

Profits should be lower in 2006, mainly because of the weak first quarter. However we are likely to see some improvement in the second quarter.

Liang Mingchao

Companies that are paying out their profits in dividends usually don't have great growth opportunities.

Haywood Kelly

Phony partnerships set up to inflate the profits.

William Lerach

Looking at profits, the quarterly result was very disappointing but high restructuring costs were booked, which weighed on earnings. What is gratifying is that order inflow is well above expectations.

Heino Ruland

We do not see this V-shaped recovery in corporate profits.

David Tice

Gap's management appears to be focused more on improving profits. Wall Street will certainly become concerned if earnings miss expectations.

Harry Ikenson

On the whole, the common thread is suspicion about profits.

Richard Kersley

There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers.

Pete Domenici

The big difference is what happens with the profits that we generate through the year, and at the end of the year the profitability goes back to our members in the form of a patron's rebate.

Wally Smith