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Definition of Profit
Profit
Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods.
Accession of good; valuable results; useful consequences; benefit; avail; gain; as, an office of profit, To be of service to; to be good to; to help on; to benefit; to advantage; to avail; to aid; as, truth profits all men. To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to gain; to advance. To be of use or advantage; to do or bring good. Related Definitions: Accession, Acquisition, Advance, Advantage, Aid, All, An, Any, As, Avail, Be, Benefit, Beyond, Bring, Cost, Do, Emolument, Excess, Expenditure, For, Gain, Good, Goods, Help, Hence, Improve, Improvement, In, Keeping, Make, Men, Occupation, Of, Office, On, Or, Over, Pecuniary, Producing, Profit, Received, Sale, Selling, Service, The, To, Transaction, Truth, Use, Useful, Valuable, Value |
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Profit Quotations
The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
Warren Buffett Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it. Warren Buffett War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures. Ron Paul The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. Dale Carnegie If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right. Woody Allen |
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Profit Translations
profit in Afrikaans is wins, profyt profit in Danish is profitere profit in Dutch is verdienste, baat, winst, gewin profit in German is Nutzen, Gewinn profit in Hungarian is profit, haszon profit in Italian is guadagno, profitto, guadagnare profit in Latin is lucror, lucrum, usus, quaestus questus profit in Norwegian is gagn profit in Portuguese is lucro profit in Spanish is ganancia, lucro, beneficio, ganar, provecho |
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