Dan Rather Quotes

When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.

If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.

Veteran print editors and reporters at places like the 'Times' and 'The New Yorker' manage to feed and clothe their families without costing their companies a million bucks a month, and they produce a great deal more valuable reporting and analysis than the network news stars do.

There's very little substitute in the business world for making money.

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

We are now after 7 months operation making money here.

I care deeply about journalism, but we need to be a business.

You're either making money or you're not. If you're not making money get out of the business.

General Motors is not in the business of making cars. It is in the business of making money.

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

We all forget that when a TV network says, 'Look, we're broke,' it means that they're not making as much money as they would like to be making. They're still making millions and millions of dollars - they're just not making billions and billions of dollars.

We can ill afford to have activities conducted as "non-profit," that is, as activities that devour capital rather than form it, if they can be organized as activities that form capital, as activities that make a profit.

There are two key lessons: a) The only way to survive in business is to be profitable, unless you have an unlimited amount of money; b) Get through your difficulty and learn to do better next time.

You know that first of all your films have to make money no matter who you are.

When I talk about the polling, I'm talking about the principles. It shows these officials are knowingly attempting to shift public opinion, even though they know what they say is not factual.

The most frequent way that I will communicate with him Obamacis when we're traveling. We talk about what's in the news, and I hear him talking about issues that are important to him.

Sales Cure All. Know how your company will make money and how you will actually make sales.

Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.

I don't like people that make their living talking about bullshit, and you see them in many shows that are made on the same subject. When you go looking at UFOs or bigfoot or what-have-you, there's just nothing there.

Everybody ought to relish profitability.

The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits.

Despite all that good news, there's plenty of horror stories being told. All of them are untrue, but they're being told all over America.

First rule in this world baby... don't believe ANYTHING you see on the news.

You can't make money with a consensus accurate prediction.