Profit quotes

“I'm a prophet against profit!”
Stephen Dorff - Cecil

“- Superman: You'd risk world wide nuclear war for your own personal financial gain.
- Lex Luthor: Nobody wants war. I just want to keep the threat alive.”
Christopher Reeve - Superman
Gene Hackman - Lex Luthor

“They won't go over there and pick up our buddies and bring 'em back home, because there's no gain in it. You and I know that the books are still in the red. And the politicians know, too. The same politicians that never lost a single son in Vietnam - not one.”
Gene Hackman - Col. Jason Rhodes

“I sell gasoline, I make a small profit. With that I buy groceries. The grocer makes a profit. We call it earning a living. You may have heard of it somewhere.”
Robert Mitchum - Jeff Bailey

“Do you think I would do what I did to my country for money! I hate mercenaries!”
James Woods - Walker

“Mr. Kroc, if you're not making money hand over fist, something's terribly wrong.”
B.J. Novak - Harry J. Sonneborn

“- Ray Kroc: Look, if you don't wanna make a profit, that's fine. But don't stop the rest of us.
- Dick McDonald: Us?
- Ray Kroc: Us, as in everyone but you.”
Michael Keaton - Ray Kroc
Nick Offerman - Dick McDonald

“- Ma Stone: A man like Daniel Webster: guess they pay him high for what he does, but he's worth it. And he helps others... makes all the difference.
- Jabez Stone: But suppose a man got his money in bad ways?
- Ma Stone: Wouldn't profit him none.”

Jane Darwell - Ma Stone
James Craig - Jabez Stone

“Lesbians equals ratings.”

Howard Stern - Himself

“- Mike Michaelson: The show has generated enormous revenues now equivalent to the gross national product of a small country.
- Christof: People forget it takes the population of an entire country to keep the show running.
- Mike Michaelson: Since the show is on 24 hours a day without commercial interruption, all those staggering revenues are...” (continue)(continue reading)
Harry Shearer - Mike Michaelson
Ed Harris - Christof

“We're so driven by power and profit.”
Morgan Freeman - Professor Norman

- Barney Caine: You trade lives and human dignity for profit.
- Adam Steiffel: "Money, not morality, is the principal commerce of civilized nations". Thomas Jefferson, 200 years ago. That is the philosophy that built this nation.
George C. Scott - Barney Caine
Marlon Brando - Adam Steiffel

“- Management: I never said all is for nothing. I'm a businessman, Mr. Leth, nothing is for nothing. Ex inordinateo veni pecunia.
- Qohen Leth: What?
- Management: There's money in orderingdisorder. Chaos pays, Mr. Leth.”
Matt Damon - Management
Christoph Waltz - Qohen Leth

“- Skip: Yah man, I mean those boys are gettin' too big for their boots man.
- Billy Z: Whatever you say, Skip.
- Skip: Aw man c'mon, don't you get it? Those kids are gettin' offers man.
- Billy Z: So why don't you cut 'em in on some of the profits?
- Skip: What profits dickhead? This is a surf shop!”

Heath Ledger - Skip
Elden Henson - Billy Z

“If I don't look after the interests of the underprivileged, maybe somebody else will, maybe somebody without any money or property... and that would be too bad!”
Orson Welles - Kane

“You're the beneficiary of the cruelest kind of murder... murder for profit!”

George C. Scott - John Russell

“- Louise Baltimore: Your mother was a cash register!
- Sherman: And she turned a tidy profit.”
Cheryl Ladd - Louise Baltimore
Robert Joy - Sherman

“They bought shiploads of vinegar in Cuba, and in each barrel, they sealed one corpse, and then they sold them as medical cadavers all over Europe. And for a while, that was their principal source of profit. You see, this place has always had a special way of dealin' with profit and death.”

Connie Nielsen - Osborne

“Soon it was commonplace for entire teams to changecities in search of greater profits. The Minneapolis Lakers moved to Los Angeles where there are no lakes. The Oilers moved to Tennessee where there is no oil. The Jazz moved to Salt Lake City where they don't allow music.”
Stephen McHattie - Narrator

“Never trust the people who stand to profit, plain and simple. They're the bad guys.”
Clive Owen - Smith

“- Navin: I've already given away eight pencils, two hoola dolls, and an ashtray, and I've only taken in fifteen dollars.
- Frosty: Navin, you have taken in fifteen dollars and given away fifty cents worth of crap, which gives us a net profit of fourteen dollars and fifty cents.”
Steve Martin - Navin
Dick O'Neill - Frosty

“I always figured it was talent made a man big, you know, if I was the best at something. I mean, we're the guys they come to see. Without us, there ain't a ballgame. Yeah, but look at who's holding the money and look at who's facing a jail cell. Talent don't mean nothing. And where's Comiskey and Sullivan, Attell, Rothstein? Out in the back room...” (continue)(continue reading)

David Strathairn - Eddie Cicotte

“I'm not an innovator like you, Phil. I'm an adapter, and to that end, I have profited from your ideas.”

Christopher McDonald - Wilson Croft

“- Nico Toscani: War is still the greatest business, huh Nelson? I mean, these guys have financed and started every war we've ever fought. But you know something, nobody would believe me if I told them the bankers run the C.I.A.
- Nelson Fox: Oh, come on Toscani. Don't preach to me.
- Nico Toscani: So, the Senator couldn't be bought, could he? He...” (continue)(continue reading)
Steven Seagal - Nico Toscani
Chelcie Ross - Nelson Fox

“Despite rumours of secret bank accounts and hidden millions, I did not profit personally from my unlawful trading. To be absolutely honest, sometimes I wish I had.”
Ewan Gordon McGregor - Nick Leeson