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“Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.”

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Author:Alan Ladd

“The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.”

People Believe Facts Shows Jobs Media Television Percent Average Profit Customers Neighborhood Fewer Twelve Good Job Eighty Margins Surveys Profit Margin

Author:L. Neil Smith

“Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development - it has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony - and in service.”

Mean Long Running Courses Term Development Research Percent Investing Profit Consistently Short Term Haul Research And Development Sony Long Haul

Author:Akio Morita

“My plan has all that. It's energy independence. It will help our economy. It's a significant tax cut for corporations, including automatic expensing. It's bringing all those profits home from Europe without any taxation. It's lowering our corporate - or our personal rate to 28 percent, the same rate that Ronald Reagan had.”

Helping Home Energy Economy Cutting Plans Taxes Percent Europe Independence Rate Including Profit Significant Corporate Corporations Taxation Tax Cuts Energy Independence

Author:Sean Hannity

“Here's the thing: If you're so far left you actually believe that somebody owes you a job, citizenship and a heart transplant, you're mentally ill. If you're so far right that you actually believe that somebody who doesn't have a job and is not a citizen deserves to have their heart cut out and sold on eBay, and you get to keep 80 percent of the profit - you're mentally ill.”

Ifs Believe Heart Jobs Left Cutting Citizens Percent Deserve Ill Profit Citizenship Mentally Ill Transplants Ebay Heart Transplant

Author:Christopher Titus

“Generally risk-averse, specialist translation imprints have also hollowed out a fairly comfortable niche for themselves: they get ninety percent of the profits for ten percent of the work, often largely funding their operations - and their salaries - through grants that they don't even apply for. If it wasn't for publicly-funded arts bodies and organizations such as PEN, I wouldn't have been able to work on either [Abdellatif] Laâbi or [ Rashid ] Boudjedra.”

Ifs Has Beens Art Body Able Risk Ten Comfortable Percent Organization Profit Operations Grants Pens Ninety Translations Salary Funding Niche Specialists

Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely

“The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit.”

Source: War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading

“In the first study, Grant and his colleagues analyzed data from one of the five biggest pizza chains in the United States. They discovered that the weekly profits of the stores managed by extroverts were 16 percent higher than the profits of those led by introverts—but only when the employees were passive types who tended to do their job without exercising initiative. Introverted leaders had the exact opposite results. When they worked with employees who actively tried to improve work procedures, their stores outperformed those led by extroverts by more than 14 percent.”