Profit vs Success - What's the difference?
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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.
* Rambler
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (dated, literary) Benefit, positive result obtained.
* Bible, 1 Corinthians vii. 35
* Shakespeare
(legal) 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).
To benefit (somebody), be of use to (somebody).
* Bible, Hebrews iv. 2
* Dryden
To benefit, gain.
To take advantage of, exploit, use.
(obsolete) Something which happens as a consequence; the outcome or result.
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
The achievement of one's aim or goal.
(business) financial profitability.
One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals.
The fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame.
As nouns the difference between profit and success
is that profit is 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 while success is something which happens as a consequence; the outcome or result.As a verb profit
is to benefit (somebody), be of use to (somebody).As a proper noun Success is
a town in Arkansas.profit
English
(wikipedia profit)Noun
(en noun)- Let no man anticipate uncertain profits .
T time, passage=The ability to shift profits' to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: ' profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.}}
- This I speak for your own profit .
- if you dare do yourself a profit and a right
Usage notes
Regarding the income sense, when the difference is negative the term loss is correct. Negative profit does appear in microeconomics. Profit by a government agency is called a surplus.Synonyms
* gainAntonyms
* lossVerb
(en verb)- The word preached did not profit them.
- It is a great means of profiting yourself, to copy diligently excellent pieces and beautiful designs.
Derived terms
* book profit * for-profit * for fun and profit * nonprofit * not-for-profit * paper profit * profit from * profitable * profitably * profiteer * profit margin * profit sharing * profit takingExternal links
* * ----success
English
(wikipedia success)Alternative forms
* successe (archaic)Noun
- I suppose them as at the beginning of no meane endeavour, not a little alter'd and mov'd inwardly in their mindes: Some with doubt of what will be the successe , others with fear of what will be the censure; some with hope, others with confidence of what they have to speake.
- His third attempt to pass the entrance exam was a success .
- Don't let success go to your head.
- Scholastically, he was a success .
- The new range of toys has been a resounding success .
- She is country music's most recent success .