Quotes About Business

Not only in Africa but in much of the world, most leaders' pockets are lined by industrial business. And industrial business is never going to stop aiming at profit.

When designing algorithms as a business owner, your incentive is your profit, something for your business, it's not an incentive to maximise something for the individual.

I always make sure my film benefits my producer and earns him a profit.

I think my biggest problem as a creative person trying to work within a business for profit was that it was very important to me that people liked me. Over the years, observing other showrunners who made work that I so admired, I realized that that had to go. This couldn't be my first priority. My first priority had to be the work.

The way I see EDM right now, it's a healthy industry for sure - minimal work for maximum profit.

If someone is doing that, saving the customer money, is making a profit so bad?

If you want to grow a business, you want to make profit. Only then it is good business.

On our profit margins, honestly on all our products, anything we work on in in the industry, I do not touch it unless it is double digits.

It must operate at a profit. You can't have any structure, especially not a long-term one, that does not have under it a firm financial foundation that can ensure its longevity.

The way we have looked at pricing at Merck is we've always said we want to be responsible, which means we want to optimize profitability and patient access.

In general, you don't want competitors to understand your business outside of telling people your revenue and profitability numbers.

I think the only way to maintain profitability is to meet the needs of the customers.

You will always need more capital than you think, because it will always take you longer to reach profitability than you can imagine.

I feel like a lot of entrepreneurs hear all this talk about profitability and realize they need to lower their burn. So, they just start chopping off perks and people.

If a company is profitable, the founder is in control. If it's not, investors are in control.

What is too popular may not be profitable. Don't invest in B2C companies, instead invest in B2B companies.

My thing is to have a good, profitable company, for it to be 100% owned independently.

There is nothing to be embarrassed about being profitable.

I've drunk Amazon's free Diet Coke. Nothing makes more sense to me than a company trying to make bookselling into a profitable business. I'm not anti-Amazon, and I'm not pro-publishers either. I'm pro-books.

John D. Rockefeller said that he found friendships based on business to be far more long lasting and profitable than the reverse. I think there's something to that. A company can end up being very Confucian, where the good of the individual is subjugated to the good of the whole.

I built a huge profitable business with no debt.

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

I'm sure a majority of farmers do their best to follow safe practices, to read carefully chemical labels, to follow the law, and to try and ensure that they are making both safe and profitable decisions for their business.

Knopf is solidly profitable, and that is how I intend to keep it.