Bill Gates Quotes

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

All of my businesses are profitable.

What do you want your business to do? Make money, of course. To pay for people and supplies, to be able to grow.

You have to have commercial income so you can spend on players.

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.

Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.

And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the expenses of your kitchen and your wines and your wardrobe and the wages of servants, and subtract your stock.

When I first came into baseball, people didn't want to hear that a team was a business. But it is. And the better the business is run, the healthier the team on the field is going to be.

Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.

I run advertisements and sell T-shirts to cover overhead costs and pay the few people who help me out behind the scenes. Anything left over is spent on production costs, animation costs, etc.

I don't care about revenues.

If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long.

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.

Remember, if your business isn't making money, then you and your employees aren't, either.

One capability every business is expected to have is the capability to make money. It requires a certain kind of discipline, a certain kind of mindset.

The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.

Revenue cures everything in the business world.

The bottom line is down where it belongs – at the bottom. Far above it in importance are the infinite number of events that produce the profit or loss.

People, materials, facilities, money, and time are the resources available to us for conducting our business. By applying our skills, we turn these resources into useful products and services. If we do a good job, customers pay us more for our products than the sum of our costs in producing and distributing them. This difference, our profit, represents the value we add to the resources we utilize.

About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.

Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.

Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.

I'm a hard-nosed businessman, that if a company is paying its way, increasing profits for thirty-odd consecutive years, you don't put it into receivership.

If the books are selling, the money will follow.

Margin is a customer concept.