Quotes About Profit

If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

I think a lot of Hollywood is in retreat right now trying to figure out how to make money and make the safest bets.

I mean, sports are big, big, big business.

We like companies that can get big and powerful on $50 million or less and not two, three, four or five billion.

Everybody's trying to make blockbusters.

Not all Bollywood movies are made for the passion for it, they're mostly made to make money.

The bottom line is the NBA is going to do whatever they can do to create more revenue.

The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.

Winning is good for your bottom line.

Boxing is a business.

It's always about bringing in the numbers, the viewership. That's what gets you the money.

Low budget movies make lots of money.

Subscriptions is the bulk of our business; ads are nice to have on top of that.

People in retail banks are not smart. They have a business model that's quite difficult to not make money out of - but still they somehow manage it.

I'm a businessman, not a bartender.

If the film succeeds at the box office it is a commercial film. Otherwise it isn't.

When you get into investing, your default stance should be 'No,' because most deals suck. Most deals won't make money. Most companies will fail.

American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

In 2007, 'Diary of the Dead' all of a sudden made money. I was blindsided by that.

Amazon has suffered quarters-long profit droughts. Alphabet has given its investors agita over profligate spending on non-core products. Microsoft's growth - if not its profit engine - stalled for years, causing its stock to idle, too.

There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.

The part of capitalism that doesn't work for me is when capitalists make decisions in the way that Adam Smith suggested, which is that as long as you do everything in the interest of the investor, you're going to actually make the best decisions for all other stakeholders. I don't happen to agree with that.

In industries where a lot of competitors are selling the same product - mangoes, gasoline, DVD players - price is the easiest way to distinguish yourself. The hope is that if you cut prices enough you can increase your market share, and even your profits. But this works only if your competitors won't, or can't, follow suit.

Male actors get into production, share profit, and they don't take money at times but are involved in some capacity which is economical and resourceful. These things suit them; as they have made a place for themselves, they have command over the box office.