Steve Bannon Quotes

GM will do what's best for GM, and Delphi should do what's good for them.

The NBA is going to do what they want to do. They're going to do what's best for them; not what's best for us.

Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.

The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.

I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs.

Within a market, organizations have interests distinct from and often antagonistic to the market processes that produced and sustain them.

Must we always look for the political opinions of our businessmen precisely where they suppose their immediate pecuniary advantage to be found?

Most of the world leadership today is motivated by profit.

[Corporate] takeovers are for the public good, but that's not why I do it. I do it to make money.

The fans have to realize that as opinionated as y'all are in the way you want it, the company is the same way, and they're gonna do what they wanna do... at the end of the day, I'm just a guy getting rich.

Most companies are out to make money. They aren't worried about anything except whether they can buy their new BMW next month.

Corporations, like nations, do not have friends. They have interests.

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

Satan doesn't mind you using your strengths, so long as you do it for personal benefits.

Big Business wants cheap labor costs.

Donald Trump doesn't care who gets hurt, as long as he makes a profit off it.

Treaties are observed as long as they are in harmony with interests.

Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.

I'm not in business to make money for the other guy. I'm in business to make money for myself.

Letting users control your site can be terrifying at first. From day one we were asking ourselves, "What is going to be on the front page today?" You have no idea what the system will produce. But stepping back and giving consumers control is what brought more and more people to the site. They have a sense of ownership and discovery at the same time. If you give users the tools to spread and share their interests with others, they will use them to promote what is important to them.

If we adopt a self-centered approach to life, by which we attempt to use others for our own self interest, we might be able to gain temporary benefits, but in the long run we will not succeed in achieving even our personal happiness, and hope for the next life is out of the question.

I want you to say to me right from the start, "We are here to serve customers. We're not here for me to make a lot of money. We're not here to bet on interest rates or credit spreads. We are here to serve our customers really well over a long period of time, and that's how you build a successful business." And so I want to see that, too, you know?

While profit remains the final goal, entrepreneurs spend the better part of each day figuring out how better to serve the needs of their actual and potential customers. They are operationally, if not intentionally, altruistic.

Our goal is long-term growth in revenue and absolute profit - so we invest aggressively in future innovation while tightly managing our short-term costs.

Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence.