Peter Munk Quotes

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

I have seen entrepreneurs ask for hundreds of millions of dollars on a concept and try to sell because of 'their passion' for an idea. If the idea is that good, why wouldn't I cut you out and hire someone who is just as passionate for much, much less?

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

I'm not in business to make money.

You don't do a business for pleasure: You have to make money.

It is a business. I know we, as athletes and owners and people involved with the NBA, never want to say that it's a business and things like that. It is a business.

At the end of the day, it's show business: you earn money to make money.

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.

Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.

Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.

There's always something happening in the world that creates an opportunity to try to fix a business and build a business.

A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.

Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.

When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.

As I've said, in 2007, we're free to go and we'll just have to do what's best for the business.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.

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.

The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring.

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

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

The tools used by economists to analyze business firms are too abstract and speculative to offer any guidance to entrepreneurs and managers in their constant struggle to bring novel products to consumers at low cost.

Profit is the concern of a little man.