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Rapid growth can yield profit and investment wins, but in the startup world, extremely fast growth can lead to structural problems if the corporate culture does not grow at the same pace.

From Forbes • Feb. 18, 2015

Frederick Reichheld, a management consultant with Bain & Co. who studies worker commitment, has found that a 5% increase in employee retention can yield profit increases of 25% or more.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cane giving sixty pounds of sugar per ton ought to bring the farmer thirty-five pounds, the rest of the sugar and molasses going to the manufacturer to pay expenses and yield profit.

From The Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56, No. 2, January 12, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various

It can be made to yield profit in grasses that are harvested without expense by animals.

From Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement by Agee, Alva

When they yield profit, however, we need turn our backs on no nation.

From A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by Cooper, James Fenimore