Peter Hargreaves Quotes

Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life Zuckerberg has been making $1 billion for investors.

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.

My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.

If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.

Prove to yourself that your business, in micro-scale at least, creates value. If you believe it, you'll find it that much easier to convince potential investors, partners and employees, too.

Our 2015 financial performance will continue to be driven by our Home Robot business. Home Robot revenue is expected to grow 10% to 12% in 2015 and comprise 90% of total company revenue.

Asia has been by all accounts an incredible investment made by Yahoo.

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

He who puts ... a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.

Market share is key.

In just a few years, I have turned my small company into a multi-million dollar makeup empire.

Our continued investment in productivity will add to our margins, and you'll see that reflected in the bottom line earnings.

I'd rather have a $10 million business making 15 per cent than a $100 million business making 5 per cent.

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

PepsiCo is a $63 billion company. Half the company is snacks, and half the company is beverages. We have a glorious snacks business and a glorious beverage business. We are extremely profitable. We are growing.

Our planes should be full, which among other things means we have a golden opportunity... to build on the momentum reflected in the financial results we are reporting today.

It's easier to build a business around a first-class product, even if it's a more expensive product to produce.

I truly believe that Yahoo! is one of the most compelling and dominant companies in the world.

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

That's the ultimate gratification in any business situation - do customers buy the product? And do they use it and do they come back and buy more of it?

I never dreamed I could build a $100 million company. I just happened to build a $1 million company that became a $5 million company, and so on.

Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.

I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.