I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision.

I've drunk Amazon's free Diet Coke. Nothing makes more sense to me than a company trying to make bookselling into a profitable business. I'm not anti-Amazon and I'm not pro-publishers either. I'm pro-books.

Profit is the most global aspect of a business and it is cross-functional.

Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill and now hacking is big business.

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

In today's social business marketplace Facebook is one of the best places for nonprofits to be discovered and connect with a larger audience on the basis of shared values. So to get started a non-profit should launch a Facebook page and invite your existing real world community to connect your cause and their networks.

Integrate purpose into your for-profit business model through a long term commitment to a cause that is aligned with your core values and those of your community.

The social business marketplace is effectively forcing brands to engage with consumers on the basis of something that is meaningful to them. More often than not this takes the form of some core value that finds expression in a non-profit cause.

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

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.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement a mutual adjustment of interests an interchange of services given and received it is in sum simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.

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

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit because they can't give the best service.

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.