CEOs who boldly lean into fulfilling the dual mandate of earning profits and providing societal benefits will find a receptive public.
I am working to ensure major corporations stop putting profits ahead of the health and safety of our Kentucky families.
Football is the most successful cult, in terms of members and profits, in human history. Oh wait, there's also religion.
The unforgivable sin of Hitler's Germany was to develop a new economic system by which the international bankers were deprived of their profits.
Tobacco is the only industry that produces products to make huge profits and at the same time damage the health and kill their consumers.
If you are focused on profits right out of the gate, you're gonna have the smallest profitable business that has ever been seen.
Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings. How diligently they read them! Here they find their law and profits, their judges and chronicles, their epistles and revelations.
For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.
Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.
Like many other Americans, I'm tired of the U.S. taxpayer paying for foreign wars, especially when the countries we defend have raked in huge oil profits.
Rosa Luxemburg maintained that the capitalist system can keep up its rate of investment (and therefore its profits) only so long as it is expanding geographically.
We oppose any pipeline whose sole purpose is to export bitumen from Canada to make profits in other countries.
Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.
If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.
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.
The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.
A real blockbuster is one where everyone, from a small technician to a distributor, gets profits. The true success of a film is when every person involved is happy.
My parents really raised me with the value that it's important to give back, and I've always gravitated towards non-profits and charities that work with children.
To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your only means of subsistence.
For small business men and women, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.
Individuals want to know that none of their own money is being invested in companies that put their profits ahead of international security.
The divestment movement is a start at challenging the excesses of capitalism. It's working to delegitimize fossil fuels and showing that they're just as unethical as profits from the tobacco industry.
When your product solves a problem that costs customers sleep, revenue, or profits, things are definitely looking up.
It's completely legitimate for a company to continue striving for growth and higher profits. But business activities have to be conducted in a sustainable manner.
People work hard and companies make big profits, but employees don't see that they share in the wealth they help to create.
There`s sort of a chilling effect on non-profits and the media and a lot of other places because the establishment is so powerful. That`s where the money is.
The wealthy have installed their slaves in the highest spheres of the state. The banks are privately owned. They are concerned solely with profits. They have no interest in the common good.
Furthermore, the apostolic life does not exclude contemplation but encompasses it and profits by it to know better the eternal truths it must proclaim
Today, the United States is No. 1 in corporate profits, No. 1 in CEO salaries, No. 1 in childhood poverty and No. 1 in income and wealth inequality in the industrialized world.
I want to see more companies do profit-sharing. If you help create the profits, you should be able to share in them, not just the executives at the top.
At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'.
I think there's real value in having a founder CEO. Obviously, I'm biased, but I'm driven by a purpose and a mission and a vision, not just profits.
Now one person doing the job of one and a half. So as an employer I can get two people to do the work of three, and think about what that does for profits.
Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China.
In some cases, corporations engaged in this activity have as much as 16 percent of their profits generated through the holding of 'janitor's insurance.'
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.
Exceptional firms have always been good at aligning their mission or purpose with their execution and, as a result, have enjoyed category leadership in sales and profits.
Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.
Hillary Clinton understands that a president's job is to worry about future generations, not the short-term profits of the fossil fuel industry.
In the time of the robber barons, my great grandfather insisted on reinvesting and sharing profits with workers... He was told he was a socialist, that he was not welcome on Wall Street.
Government buffer-stock schemes are rife with politics, and instead of generating profits from buying low and selling high, they tend to generate losses.
The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
If we are not more efficient, we put ourselves in a position where prices need to rise or profits deteriorate in a way that makes us less attractive to investors.
Big food companies have their priorities, which include selling cheap, unhealthy foods at high profits.
If companies shared profits with their workers, employers and employees would have a greater mutual interest in each other's success.
Functional goods sold en masse earn a good return but breakthrough profits come from satisfying emotional needs.
Our focus is on the customers and improving their experience. We believe that if we do that well, competition, prices, and profits will all take care of themselves.
Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.
Managing by values - not by profits - is a powerful process that will set your business on the path to becoming what I call a 'Fortunate 500' company.
It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.
When you have mega-corporations that have record profits, but they don't want to share even a little bit of that with their workers, we are actually putting our communities at peril.
Twentieth-century welfare state capitalism was historically unique in that national income was split between wages and profits, labour and capital.
Business success isn't just a selfish aim. Profits spread beyond those who make them and bring jobs and prosperity.
I'm a hard-nosed businessman, that if a company is paying its way, increasing profits for thirty-odd consecutive years, you don't put it into receivership.
Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
As in the past, the costs and risks of the coming phases of the industrial economy were to be socialized, with eventual profits privatized.
Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in profits.
The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.
Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.
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