The phrase "leave profit" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used in business or financial contexts to refer to the amount of profit that is remaining after all expenses have been deducted. Example: The company's cost-cutting measures were successful, leaving a significant profit for the quarter.
It isn't like businesses to leave profit opportunities on the table unrealised.
For example, charging $16.95 for all 50 songs studied (which would have cost $49.50 to download) would leave profit unchanged because enough people would buy.
Sharing ownership and even management decisions would be hard for some partners to swallow, as would having to leave profit in the business, rather than taking it all out every year.
As a result, companies face mismatches between supply and demand, deliver poor service to customers, and leave profits behind on the table.
Lockheed Martin on Tuesday cut its earnings forecast for 2010, and said delays in the award of Pentagon programs would hurt its sales growth and leave profits flat in 2011.
Tate and Lyle issued a shock trading update on 13 February saying falling fizzy drink sales and price pressure from a market glut of Chinese sucralose would leave profits flat this year.
As Sen. Paul so eloquently stated, Congress should look at itself to explain why Apple and others leave profits overseas.
Such demand is strong right now, and companies either staff up to meet that demand or leave profits on the table.
The bailout of the banks was necessary but it has socialised debt and left profit in private hands.
But the industry lacks independent oversight in Russia's politically centralized system, he said, leaving profit motive alone to guide development.
Rising raw materials costs and accounting adjustments reduced earnings by 22 cents a share, leaving profit from continuing operations at 10 cents to 12 cents a share, the company said.
