Bhavish Aggarwal Quotes

Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.

What we are doing is increasing our focus on cash flow, return on investment, and value creation.

We care about margins.

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.

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

Our first fiscal year, we were profitable.

If you have a business that isn't growing the top line, it's very hard to deliver attractive returns to shareholders.

Relative to Google or the kind of turnaround we're seeing, we do care about profitability. That is our goal in every one of the areas where we invest.

Revenue cures everything in the business world.

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

The value that some analysts put on revenue vs. what they put on profit is out of whack. If you can grow real cash earnings, that's 80% of what you ought to do, and the revenue component is 20%.

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

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

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.

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

If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself.

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

I'm not in business to make money.

Companies that get confused, that think their goal is revenue or stock price or something. You have to focus on the things that lead to those.

When most people ask about a business growing, what they really mean is growing revenue, not just growing the number of people using a service. Traditional businesses would view people using your service that you don't make money from as a cost.

The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record that's not too expensive, so that you're not going crazy spending tons of money making a product that might not ever return that money.

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

I've had such a great track record in making a huge profit when the movies are smaller.

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

Businesswise, everything's been good.