Profits

Examples

• The proprietors and cultivators finally pay both the wages of all the workmen of the unproductive class, and the profits of all their employers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Taxes upon the profits of stock, in particular employments, can never affect the interest of money. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I put up $800, and was to get half of the profits, and each of them one-quarter. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Not only the profits of stock, but the rent of land, and the wages of labour, would necessarily be more or less diminished by its removal. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The profits of stock seem to be very little affected by the easiness or difficulty of learning the trade in which it is employed. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The profits of mining would for some time be very great, and much above their natural rate. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The profits of stock vary with the price of the commodities in which it is employed. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is a tax upon the supposed profits of the farmer, which they estimate by the stock that he has upon the farm. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• She knows the profits of it, but she don't appreciate the art of it, and she objects to it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Edison changed bookkeepers, but never thereafter counted anything real profit until he had paid all his debts and had the profits in the bank. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The profits of it only are spent in Spain and Portugal, where they help to support the sumptuous profusion of the merchants of Cadiz and Lisbon. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Their labour, it is said, replaces only the stock which employs them, together with its ordinary profits. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• We were not in a grand way of business, but we had a good name, and worked for our profits, and did very well. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Let us make the friendly move of agreeing to share the profits of it equally betwixt us. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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