10 sentences with 'profit'
Example sentences and phrases with the word profit and other words derived from it.
• « Thanks to Burroughs, to Emerson, to his appetite for profit - and, plain and simple, to his good fortune - Henry Ford had coincided with a set of new economic laws. »
• « High wages and profit sharing could transform them into shareholders in the capitalist system. »
• « Nevertheless, by the end of the 15th century, whenever a text could be printed to serve a political purpose or to generate a profit, it almost certainly was. »
• « In short, we see in the 17th and 18th centuries the first phase of a system that would later be called capitalism: an economic system in which the exchange of commodities for profit generated wealth that was reinvested in the name of even greater profits. »
• « To reiterate, capitalism was (and remains) a combination of two major economic and political phenomena: businesses explicitly run for profit and a legal framework to protect and encourage the generation of profit. »
• « The pursuit of profit was nothing new, but the political power enjoyed by merchants, the political focus on overseas expansion for profit, and the laws enacted to encourage these processes were new. »
• « The root cause of this misery was simple: the ruthless pursuit of profit by factory owners and manufacturers. »
• « All the factors mentioned above, the quest for profit, for raw materials, the continuing power struggle between the great powers and the "civilising mission" reached their collective zenith in Africa. »
• « In a somewhat ironic twist, only some specific forms and areas of exploitation ever made a profit for Europeans, especially European governments. Numerous private trading companies founded to exploit colonial areas went bankrupt. »
• « Among other activities, "the company" bought arms and sold them to the counterrevolutionaries at an average profit margin of 38 percent. »