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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.

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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

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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