Top 56 Quotes About Profitability
#1. The serial bully, who in my estimation accounts for about one person in thirty in society, is the single most important threat to the effectiveness of organisations, the profitability of industry, the performance of the economy, and the prosperity of society.
Tim Field
#2. We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally - and certainly not in reinsurance - as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability standards are ignored.
Warren Buffett
#3. Perfectionism is the enemy of profitability.
Mark Cuban
#4. Given the fact that we are in a capitalist society, we still do not want to overlook not only what a corporation produces and its profitability but also how it impacts the environment, touches human life and whether it protects or undermines the dignity of the human person.
Dean Smith
#5. Wall Street is always too biased toward short-term profitability and biased against long-term growth.
Peter Thiel
#6. Servile labour disappeared because it could not stand the competition of free labour; its un-profitability sealed its doom in the market economy.
Ludwig Von Mises
#7. In the simplest sense, the key to the performance of any traditional commercial bank ... is the profitability of the loans it makes.
Robert G. Wilmers
#8. Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.
Zig Ziglar
#9. Giving government aid to a bank basically transforms it into a utility. The huge salaries in this sector are only a symptom of a more profound misalignment. The profitability of the finance industry has been excessive. That is absurd.
George Soros
#10. Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.
Peter Drucker
#11. Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.
Carlos Slim
#12. Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise.
Warren Buffett
#13. We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.
Jeff Bezos
#14. Too many startups get in the habit of continually raising more and more money, which has the deleterious effect of both pushing out profitability and limiting your exit options. The less rounds of capital you need to raise, the more of your company you get to own.
Jay Samit
#16. I think the only way to maintain profitability is to meet the needs of the customers.
Ofra Strauss
#17. Profitability is a shallow goal if it doesn't have a real purpose, and the purpose has to be share the profits with others.
Howard Schultz
#18. A policy of subsidizing failures will end in an economy strewn with capital-guzzling industries long past their time of profitability - old companies that cannot create jobs themselves, but can stand in the way of job creation.
George Gilder
#19. Oil is once again robbing the industry of a return to profitability. Cost reductions and efficiency gains have never been more critical.
Giovanni Bisignani
#20. Repositioning a brand is never easy and rarely without pain. I believe the Urban brand is making the necessary changes that will allow it to more fully engage its traditional customer and return to solid profitability.
Richard Hayne
#21. Profitability is the consequence of doing business in the right way, to honor God.
Ted Malloch
#22. My goal in coming to General Motors was to help restore profitability, build a strong market position and position this iconic company for success. We are clearly on that path.
Edward Whitacre Jr.
#23. And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'
John Thorn
#24. One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you need to get profitable before your A round of money, you ought to be able to do that.
Sam Altman
#25. The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out of business. Profitability rather than human need is the determining condition of private investment.
Michael Parenti
#26. I don't care about awards and public image. We know the business of entertainment. We worship our work, we worship our clients and we worship profitability.
Shailender Singh
#27. Our goal is to make General Motors the most valuable automotive company. Clearly, that is having sustainable profitability and driving great returns for our shareholders.
Mary Barra
#28. If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems.
Michael Porter
#29. A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.
James C. Collins
#30. I am sure there will come a time when we are going to use AMD. The products have been getting better. The acceptance is getting better. But we have not been suffering as a company for either growth or profitability because we haven't had AMD.
Kevin Rollins
#31. The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.
Todd Gitlin
#32. We should not prioritize on the basis of project profitability, but rather on how this profitability is affected by delay.
Donald G. Reinertsen
#33. Down cycles are not fun. But they form the basis for enormous future profitability
Stephen A. Schwarzman
#34. Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.
Jeff Bezos
#35. Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person - not just an employee - are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied customers, which leads to profitability.
Anne M. Mulcahy
#36. Supermarket companies are big logistics companies, and one of the ways we've increased profitability in the past is by re-evaluating how they do logistics.
Ronald Burkle
#37. Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.
Bill Vaughan
#38. The idea that growth equals profitability is a misconception. If you can't afford the financial or qualitative side of growth, it can just as easily put you out of business.
Mark Cuban
#40. Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.
Peter Drucker
#41. You will always need more capital than you think, because it will always take you longer to reach profitability than you can imagine.
Jay Samit
#42. If you make a record, you should ask yourself, 'Did it make someone cry, in a good way, not a bad way?' There should almost be subjective emotional criteria for evaluating work, instead of just profitability.
Moby
#43. In general, you don't want competitors to understand your business outside of telling people your revenue and profitability numbers.
Dave Goldberg
#44. What makes stocks valuable in the long run isn't the market. It's the profitability of the shares in the companies you own. As corporate profits increase, corporations become more valuable and sooner or later, their shares will sell for a higher price.
Peter Lynch
#45. If you can create even the illusion of high profitability for a few years, then when the thing collapses you can walk out of the wreckage a very rich man.
Paul Krugman
#46. One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.
Jean Baudrillard
#47. Working with limited resources is an excellent way to hone skills that will serve you well for the rest of your career. You will prioritize profitability from the start.
Jon Oringer
#48. Candor must be a constant if you are truly committed to producing great profitability through the creation of tremendous products and services.
Clay Clark
#49. Innovation and corporate governance are extremely important to improve the profitability of Japanese companies and encourage them to increase wages, capital spending, and dividends.
Shinzo Abe
#50. The popular contemporary wisdom that a liberal arts education is outmoded is true only to the extent that social equality, liberty, and worldly development of mind and character are outmoded and have been displaced by another set of metrics: income streams, profitability, technological innovation.
Wendy Brown
#51. A well-built brand is the culmination of intangibles that do not directly flow to the revenue or profitability of a company, but contribute to its texture. Forsaking them can take a subtle, collective toll.
Howard Schultz
#52. The success of the Starbucks has been based on this balance between profitability and a social conscience. Everywhere we're doing business, were trying to manage the business through the lens of humanity.
Howard Schultz
#53. GE is falling under the same cloud of the market as a whole. Investors are not focused on the positives that are occurring like corporate profitability.
James Fisher
#54. We oppose all corporate welfare, whether we benefit or not. You will find that our policy positions mainly hurt our profitability rather than help it.
Charles Koch
#55. Companies should not have a singular view of profitability. There needs to be a balance between commerce and social responsibility ... The companies that are authentic about it will wind up as the companies that make more money.
Howard Schultz
#56. Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and employees, not objectives.
Jack Ma
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