John Cockburn of Ormiston Quotes

Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.

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.

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.

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

Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.

If we look at pricing holistically, we'll create a more solid business.

Great businesses can be built on scale. I think Amazon has built a phenomenal commerce business largely on scale. Their network effect isn't obvious to me, but boy, have they used scale effectively.

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

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

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

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

I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.

I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business.

This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.

I'm not in business to make money.

We are not going to compete for programs where we do not believe we can get a fair and sufficient return.

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.

I think it's natural for any manager to want to grow his business. The question is at what rate, and in what direction, and in what format?

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.

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

A Merchant may gain where the Nation loses.

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.

The swamp is a business model. It's a successful business model.

You have venture capitalists. We view them as experts who also help finance your company and give directions and also some pretty candid discussions about what you have to do better.

Competition matters.