Noun

profit (plural profits)

1. Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and services sold at an advertised price.
2. (dated, literary) Benefit, positive result obtained.

   Reading such an enlightening book on the subject was of much profit to his studies.

3. (law) In property law, a nonpossessory interest in land whereby a party is entitled to enter the land of another for the purpose of taking the soil or the substance of the soil (coal, oil, minerals, and in some jurisdictions timber and game).

Profit

Profit may refer to:

• Profit (accounting)
• Profit (economics)
• Profit (real property), a nonpossessory interest in land
• Profit (TV series), a short-lived American television series starring Adrian Pasdar
• The Profit, a feature film by Peter N. Alexander
• Account of profits, a type of equitable remedy in law (also known as an accounting)

Surname

• Joe Profit (born 1949), former American football player
• Laron Profit (born 1977), professional basketball player
• Richard Profit (born 1974), English mountaineer and adventurer

Profit generally is the making of gain in business activity for the benefit of the owners of the business. The word comes from Latin meaning "to make progress", is defined in two different ways, one for economics and one for accounting.

Sourced

"For the corporation executives, the military metaphysic often coincides with their interest in a stable and planned flow of profit; it enables them to have their risk underwritten by public money; it enables them reasonably to expect that they can exploit for private profit now and later, the risky research developments paid for by public money. It is, in brief, a mask of the subsidized capitalism from which they extract profit and upon which their power is based.”

• • C. Wright Mills. , Causes of world war 3,1958

• When a firm makes a profit this means that productive factors have been properly employed and corresponding human needs have been duly satisfied.
  • Pope John Paul II, Centesimus Annus, 1991

• The promise of every product and service is a better life. Profits are the prize for delivering on the promise.
  • Patrick Dixon - Building a Better Business 2005 p 88

Unsourced

• If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.
  • Robert Quillen.

• Profit comes from what's there, usefulness comes from what's not there
  • Chinese proverb

• Profit never needs a reason. It is the reason.
  • Thomas Launchi

• Revenue is good but profit is better.
  • Wes

• And gain is gain, however small.
  • Robert Browning

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