My oldest brother suggested that ads could be a possible solution to generate profit and pay the bills.
That wholesale end of its activities is more profitable, but the point it makes is that you need to generate profit to invest.
"The bank's capacity to generate profit enables us to set aside hefty real estate provisions in Spain in 2012 and significantly increase non-performing loan coverage, " Santander chairman Emilio Botin said.
The higher the return on capital which he defines as pretax operating profit divided by the sum of net working capital and net fixed assets the more effectively a company is using its capital to generate profit.
Remember the executive officers have a duty to generate a profit and dividend for the shareholders.
Not one major college athletic program that operates without football was able to generate a profit in 2009.
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Although sales were brisk, it took seven years to generate a profit, and analysts made a sport of predicting its collapse.
It's not actually clear whether Mr. Marchionne is factoring in research and development costs or whether he's talking purely of material costs, though Fiat's fate is hardly unique -- the Nissan Leaf isn't expected to generate a profit for a good couple of years yet.
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What came clear in some of the testimony was that when they were reprimanded, either they had failed to generate enough profit for the firm in a particular transaction, they hadn't generated enough revenue for the firm or they hadn't demonstrated that they were smarter than the guy on the other side of the trade.
Insufficient capacity to generate revenue and profit growth is one reason to spend and hire.
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But before a company can distribute anything, it first has to generate a cash profit, after taxes and after all capital expenditures.
Self-employment activity generally includes ownership and operation of a sole proprietorship, Limited Liability Company (LLC), C Corporation, S Corporation, and Limited Partnership where the business intends to generate revenue for profit and make significant contributions to the plan.
Most locations in rural America many home to the small businesses that both Mr. Romney and Mr. Obama champion simply are not efficiently served by scheduled airlines because there is insufficient demand to generate the high passenger counts needed to make a profit in the airline industry.
Netflix also expects to break even or generate another profit during the quarter.
The problem is software and services, however successful, are unlikely to generate the kind of outsize profit growth from rising sales of iPhones and iPads that drove Apple's shares to unprecedented highs last year.
Critics of for-profit education generally contend that the private sector is willing to sacrifice educational quality and the interests of the student in order to generate a short-term profit, an argument that Stanfield suggests is largely unsubstantiated by economic theory, empirical evidence or sound reasoning.
If they then start to actually use that investment in some productive way that pays wages and earns a profit, then they start to generate additional value-added from that activity, and that value-added continues to be created as long as they keep doing that productivev activity.
Most mutual fund companies are for-profit companies trying to generate returns for their shareholders.
He said it disclosed "a manic and frenzied culture of procuring and packaging as many mortgages as humanly possible, to maintain the bonds spewing from the investment bank, to generate as much short-term profit as humanly possible".
They generate admissions to NICUs, and NICUs are profit centers.
Use this mortgage calculator to assist in determining how much profit you might generate.
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By hosting more complex data--fully functional applications rather than mere content--ChinaCache can generate higher margins, close to 50% higher profit per gigabyte of data, according to ChinaCache Chief Operating Officer Richard Xu.
So in the country with the most prolific free enterprise system in world history, why not allow the public to buy into the for-profit businesses that generate the game they so passionately believe in?
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Whether Imperva can generate a GAAP profit in the bargain remains to be seen.
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Oligopolies that generate fat profit margins and leave banks with little incentive to take risk actually suit regulators.
In order to improve gross profit per square foot, Best Buy will focus on stocking more items that generate higher margins.
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Big-box retailers rely on sales of movie discs, not just because of the profit they generate, but because they lure customers into showrooms where they may be enticed to buy flat-panel TVs and surround-sound systems.
That would open them up to a host of new and existing nonlethal devices and markets that could very well generate much greater revenue and profit than the sale of guns and ammunition generates today.
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Among the biggest costs was the missed profit that Monitor would have gotten had it been willing to use well-tested approaches that would generate results with lower risk.
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