Julia Hartz Quotes

If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems.

Chasing profits and building a long-term profit model are two different things.

We're certainly interested in maximizing our return and doing it - we're interested in maximizing our return, but we're also interested in doing it over a long period of time and in doing it in a way that never endangers the firm from a survivability standpoint.

The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.

We need to be focused in corporate America on the long term.

If I get a lucky win, it is difficult to sustain that over time, so we have to maintain a style.

We'll continue to take the right actions to make sure we're a profitable business.

Our ultimate goal is to stay in business. We are not here with a specific plan. That's kind of how our entire career has evolved. We will figure things out as we go along.

In business, you try to solve problems.

I invested. I wanted to cushion the future. I'm a financial success!

Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.

Ty Tryon made a lot of money after turning pro, but he might not have been ready. I don't want to make a lot of money for a couple of months and then not be ready.

I truly believe that the combination of a strong top line together with a strong bottom line is what makes for a sustainable business.

Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.

Knopf is solidly profitable, and that is how I intend to keep it.

I'm very lucky because less than one percent of boxers get out of the game financially secure.

If your business is the right business, then money will never be an issue.

Long-term sustaining growth is a minimum expectation for us.

You know what kind of companies generally survive? Companies that make more money than they spend. I know, duh, right?

Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development - it has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony - and in service.

Keep your shop, and your shop will keep you.

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

Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.

Our goal is not to produce immediate results. We've been tasked with producing long-term results. That means that there's more risk in any individual thing we take on. But we still aspire to a strong return on investment.

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.