Quotes About Profit

What eventually counts is whether your film was successful at the box-office or not, or more so if the film has made its money, and 'Race 3' did that.

There are two things that create opportunities. One is being involved with something that makes money, and the other is winning awards. And the reason that winning the awards creates the opportunities is because it gives the people who are selling the picture the opportunity to make more money.

Revenue cures everything in the business world.

Margin is a customer concept.

Without our customers, we don't have a business.

The purpose of a business is to create customers.

You know your business model is broken when you're suing your customers.

VC firms are... responsible for the full life cycle of a company: they find it, help it grow, open up a Rolodex, and sell it.

You have to be cynical because this is a business. Everyone is making money out of you.

It's nice to do an IPO where your investors get value straightaway and the share price pops up; it proves you left something on the table for them.

There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

It's that Romney is taking advantage of the government's 'free stuff,' too, and has been profiting from it handsomely for a long, long time - even as he rails about the 'free stuff' that the government provides other people.

I don't think it is about talent or looks, it is primarily about box office success.

Newfangled online sites like 'Business Insider' and 'Huffington Post' built businesses they later sold for hundreds of millions of dollars by ripping off the work of more talented journalists and then playing Google's digitally native games better than the old fogeys ever could.

There's nothing better for my interests and talents than combining math and sports for profit.

Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.

Customers play ball not just because of extremely low prices but also because IKEA offers them advantages and an experience that other retailers do not. Are there ways in which your firm – or a new venture – could offer customers advantages that would not cost you very much, or would even increase profits?

80 percent of products, or customers or employees, are only contributing 20 percent of profits; that there is great waste; that the most powerful resources of the company are being held back by a majority of much less effective resources; that profits could be multiplied if more of the best sort of products could be sold, employees hired, or customers attracted (or convinced to buy more from the firm).

Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

extracted resources from cash-generating but low-growth arenas such

Infosys is quite disciplined about its selection of customers, refusing to serve those who do not help the company to develop new sources of value.

No-one got rich being honest, the customers have to be diddled