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Less volatile stocks tend to have negative abnormal profits; more volatile stocks tend to have positive abnormal profits.
My properties are very good income-producing buildings, so I will have a very good stream of profit even if I can't sell.
Shows don't reunite because television doesn't work that way. There's no profit model and people go off to do other work.
There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.
Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.
We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.
A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.
People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.
How do we take the bad out of fracking? How do you contain the water? How do we make a profit out of that? Get there early.
Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit.
The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
Even a cursory run through American history shows exceptionalism has been used to justify bloodshed, oppression, and profit.
IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
My dream is to make the world sound better, but the only way to do that is to let businesses see that there is profit in it.
I think canceling a game that is making a profit, along with destroying jobs and an online community, is entirely unethical.
The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.
It's no surprise companies that quickly grow in value attract those who may want to also profit from the hard work of others.
Why is pot against the law? It wouldn't be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can't make a profit off it, would it?
Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.
Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.
Love works not for profit nor reward; yet God has ordained that great gain shall be the certain result of every labor of love.
War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.
The culture around here is much less cutthroat than it is in, say, Silicon Valley, or even within the non-profit culture in D.C.
Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!
There isn't one thing the federal government does that anybody in Big Business would emulate, at least not in the profit sector.
If the small government concept grows, we have fewer dollars leaving our pockets, we have more folks motivated to make a profit.
There are many who condemn my crew and I for taking the law into our own hands and for taking on the barons of corporate profit.
When I have people trust me with their money, I am obligated to give them a great film. I am not obligated to give them a profit.
Business is about profit, yes, and it is about more than profit. At its best, it is about expanding the possibilities of humanity.
They're out there, this appalling idea that there are companies that profit - not just profit but profit enormously - through war.
Sell practical, tested merchandise at a reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings - and they will always come back.
Typically, we make money when we buy things. We count the profits later, but we know we have captured them when we buy the bargain.
Profit or loss is not guaranteed. That depends on the consumer and depends on the product. That's a risk that business people take.
So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
Our view is that just because Amazon can disrupt somebody else's profit stream, it doesn't mean that Amazon earns that profit stream.
When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.
For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.
Obesity is awesome from a Wall Street perspective. It's not just one disease - there are all sorts of related diseases to profit from.
Writers in a profit making economy are an exploitable commodity whose works are products to be marketed, and are so judged and handled.
When I was at university in Birmingham, I used to spend half my grant betting on horse racing. Seven terms out of nine, I made a profit.
We in America count on the profit motive to get people to do the right thing. That's our basic American notion when it comes to business.
Tobacco is the only industry that produces products to make huge profits and at the same time damage the health and kill their consumers.
Food should come from the place of its origin, and stay there. It shouldn't spend its time crisscrossing the globe for the sake of profit.
Market-led globalization is leading to a race to the bottom, where efficiency and profit matter more than a fair share for working people.
Everything is always about people trying to make profit: Profits to this, profits to that, the more the merrier, and there's no end to it.
If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety,but profit.
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.