But profit, ma'am, depends on what it is you're after.

So in an industry where profits depend on managing the cost of exploration and inventory, caution prevailed.

Future profits will depend on how successful the company is at reducing costs.

The claim that Americans won't take certain jobs is too often made by those whose profits depend on hammering down labor costs.

Its profits will depend on the action chosen and the state of the market, which it has classified into four categories.

And the profits of drug and device manufacturers depend upon sales.

But today's profits depend on innovation and low costs.

Thus, profits will depend largely on whether the photography market resumes growing.

Their profits depend most heavily, however, on the spread between their cost of gathering money and the rate at which they lend.

For the investment companies, profits depend on the ability to handicap death.