Robert Reich Quotes

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

Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.

I always try to communicate to our people that we can never make enough money. We can never make enough profit.

Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

My shareholders expect me to make the most profit. That's the ugly, dirty truth.

If someone is doing that, saving the customer money, is making a profit so bad?

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.

If all we wanted to do was to make money on PC hardware, that wouldn't be a good business model.

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation is to make money.

My philosophy is that you sell things for more than you bought them.

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

Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.

Profit or perish... There are only two ways to make money: increase sales and decrease costs.

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

In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.

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

Corporations are a fictional entity that are designed to make money, and they're neither people nor patriots.

The crowd doesn't give a crap as long as you bring the money in.

There is still an element of the BBC that feels it is somehow wrong, or it will be open to criticism, if it makes more money.

Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.

The most efficient labor-saving device is still money.

If a manager can't control his costs, fire them.