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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

Profit Quotations It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self. Francois de La Rochefoucauld What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart. Scott Adams Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. Ambrose Bierce We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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