Ted Waitt Quotes

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

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

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

Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.

The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.

The crowd doesn't give a crap as long as you bring the money in.

Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.

You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial otherwise the films don't make money and you don't make films and as a long as a commodity is selling it's silly to kill it dead.

I'm not in business to make money.

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

Never argue with a profit.

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

It is a business. I know we, as athletes and owners and people involved with the NBA, never want to say that it's a business and things like that. It is a business.

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.

Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

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?

There is a clear goal and it isn't to make money. The goal is to desperately try to make the best products we can. We are not naive - if you trust it, people like it, they buy it and we make money. This is a consequence.

Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment.

Creating value isn't enough - you also need to capture some of the value you create.

The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring.

You're either making money or you're not. If you're not making money get out of the business.

I have a hard time with businesses that don't make money at some point.

If we want, we can be profitable, but we are focusing on growth. We don't comment on profitability, but we do look at it internally. And many of our Ola cities are profitable. But our focus across all cities is growth.

I know plenty of entrepreneurs who are numbers first. They tend to be highly analytical people, and before they pull the trigger, all the numbers have to line up just right.