Abby Lee Miller Quotes

Our wage freeze was vital to keep wages competitive with rival companies. I always try to communicate to our people that we can never make enough money. We can never make enough profit.

In business, what do we do? We compete.

All of my businesses are profitable.

The business end of business has never interested me.

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 nothing wrong with doing sequels, they're just easier to sell.

People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

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

The venture industry is both quite vibrant and quite competitive.

And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.

Business is Business.

Sometimes, for businesses, competition can be inconvenient, because competition means that the race is never over, the game is never won. No matter how well you were doing in the past, there's always someone who are out there wanting to take your place. So the temptation to avoid competition is powerful. It's rooted in motives as old as Adam and Eve: in greed for yet more money, in fear of losing your position in the market and all the benefits it brings.

You can't forget it is a business and not just playing football for a hobby.

Promoters don't book you 'cause they like you; they do it 'cause there's good business to be done.

I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.

You can't run a business based on sympathies; otherwise our business would be hampered.

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.

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

Before me, there was no money, no business with yoga.

Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

Private industry's job is to make money. Private industry's job is to create a huge economic engine.

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.

Today, the competition is considerably more intense.

We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.