“Owning a commercial television station in Britain is like having a licence to print your own money.”— Roy Thomson
“I buy newspapers to make money to buy more newspapers to make more money. As for editorial content, that's the stuff you separate the ads with.”— Roy Thomson
“Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few–the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war.”— Smedley Butler
“Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.”— David Ricardo
“It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. 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
“You're not in business to be a humanitarian. You're in business to make a profit.”— Albert J. Dunlap
“Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.”— Arthur Miller
“There can be no trade unprofitable to the public; for if any prove so, men leave it off; and wherever the traders thrive, the public, of which they are a part, thrives also.”— Dudley North
“I made a lot of money with bad pictures. I would have been a fool to make a good one.”— Joseph E. Levine
“The profit motive is the motive to serve the consumers better and more efficiently than others are doing.”— George Reisman
“The final act of business is to produce a profit. That is its only justification.”— Alfred P. Sloan
“Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.”— W. Edwards Deming