Nicholas Sparks Quotes

The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.

If you are focused on profits right out of the gate, you're gonna have the smallest profitable business that has ever been seen.

If you have a business that isn't growing the top line, it's very hard to deliver attractive returns to shareholders.

Why can't modern tech companies both grow and turn a profit at the same time?

The more I learn about industry structures, the more I feel that once a company has paid the fee, in a manner of speaking, to enter a sector, it becomes even harder to stay afloat.

Because the private sector has evolved processes and metrics for growth over many generations, for-profit models are more likely to efficiently accomplish their goals.

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.

The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.

Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

Profits are one of the most important goals of any successful business, and investors are one of the most important constituencies of public businesses.

The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.

Although NFL teams have common interests such as promoting the NFL brand, they are still separate, profit-making entities, and their interests in licensing team trademarks are not necessarily aligned.

You have to manage money. Particularly with market economies. You may have a great product, but if your bottom line goes bust, then that's it.

Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.

If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself.

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 learned that you shouldn't take your most esoteric concept and fit it into the largest space with the highest fixed costs. It puts too much pressure on the restaurant to hit grand slams every day when there just aren't enough people who want to watch that sport.

We are not going to compete for programs where we do not believe we can get a fair and sufficient return.

Companies that get confused, that think their goal is revenue or stock price or something. You have to focus on the things that lead to those.

Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.

Business is a string of seemingly impossible problems looking for solutions. Each problem you solve creates a new barrier to entry for your next competitor.

Creating value isn't enough - you also need to capture some of the value you create.

Market expansion is not an opportunity. It is a necessity.