Excessive Profit Quotes

It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.

Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.

Legitimate profit is good. What's bad is profiteering.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.

They will stop at nothing to enrich the power of Corporations

Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent.

You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit.

Corporate greed, where they need more and more and more, regardless of how much they already have, is ruining the economy of this country.

Corporations gorged with profit ... menace the stability of society.

We want Boeing to make a lot of money but not that much money.

There’s a lot of greed on Wall Street.

I know that the fantastic amount of profit that people want to make on anything is damaging. And that none of us seem able to resist it.

I want to see a reasonable profit, a fair profit, but we can't tolerate obscene profits.