Marco Rubio Quotes

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

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

I generally disagree with most of the very high margin opportunities. Why? Because it's a business strategy tradeoff: the lower the margin you take, the faster you grow.

I'm not stupid, and the people around me aren't stupid. You can't ignore the economic realities of the ways that business is run and the way clients think.

As chefs, a lot of the times we lose sight of the fact that we are in the food business and that it needs to make money to survive.

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.

At the end of the day, it's show business: you earn money to make money.

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.

Unlike Marvel, we are not setting up redundant organizations for expertise that exists. We will track all DC properties to measure financial success.

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

I like the work. If I upped the price, I wouldn't get the work.

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

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

For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.

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

Can we please agree that in the real world, corporations exist for one purpose and one purpose only - to make as much money as possible, which means cutting costs as much as possible?

Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.

It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business.

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.

We are going to continue to run a business, and we are going to continue to meet the supply and demand that's out there.

In the private sector, you have a budget and you stick to it.

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

Most companies are out to make money. They aren't worried about anything except whether they can buy their new BMW next month.

Innovation means taking risks, and that is where the private sector can play a role.