Quotes About Business

I think one purpose is very clear among corporations and business leaders: make profits, deliver high return for stockholders, conquer markets, service consumers and create jobs. But in today's world, demands from corporations and leaders are much more than that. We need to understand what people really want at the very end.

I'm a hard-nosed businessman, that if a company is paying its way, increasing profits for thirty-odd consecutive years, you don't put it into receivership.

Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits.

Profits are one of the most important goals of any successful business, and investors are one of the most important constituencies of public businesses.

Gains in corporate profits depend in large part on accelerating global economic growth.

It would be troubling if everything is determined by whether profits will be made within five to six years.

In some cases, corporations engaged in this activity have as much as 16 percent of their profits generated through the holding of 'janitor's insurance.'

As long as you're a company that makes profits, all's good.

For the Americans, laws are barriers to profits; it's a different mentality.

If we are not more efficient, we put ourselves in a position where prices need to rise or profits deteriorate in a way that makes us less attractive to investors.

When your product solves a problem that costs customers sleep, revenue, or profits, things are definitely looking up.

Chasing profits and building a long-term profit model are two different things.

For millennials, conducting business with a purpose that goes beyond making profits is critically important in determining the kind of company they want to work for - and the kind of company with whom they are willing to do business.

In order to generate extraordinary profits, you must have a focus that is beyond profits. You need to focus on how you serve your clients.

Ideally, I want my films to work because I want the people who have invested their money to get back their investment and make profits too.

If banks earn more profits, the employees will benefit.

The whole business is changing dramatically, and the way fans follow and participate in movies, and make their own movies to emulate those movies, is profoundly different.

A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'.

A lot of people look at a basketball team as an anchor tenant for an arena. I look at an arena as the anchor tenant for a much larger program.

My heart has always been in programming and marketing.

Importantly, while PBS is subject to some of the Commission's Kid Vid rules, its business model is designed around community programming, and its efforts will continue with or without Commission mandates.

I would like to see additional funding for entrepreneurial development programs.

Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.

I have several computer companies. One of them I have a program for wide-format printing. I have a beauty program. So I have several different programs that I own for printing.