Louis V. Gerstner Jr. Quotes

I have always focused on the bottom line.

General Motors is not in the business of making cars. It is in the business of making money.

We care about margins.

All of my businesses are profitable.

If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems.

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.

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.

Don't open a bar if you think all you need to be is social and greet the customers. You have to run a business.

Revenue cures everything in the business world.

You think that the only thing that counts is the bottom line! What a presumptuous thing to say. The bottom line is in heaven.

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.

I dont consider the bloody ROI.

We have an obligation to provide a return for our shareholders.

When you're finished, bars are not inherently profitable. You got to work at them to make them profitable.

Our continued investment in productivity will add to our margins, and you'll see that reflected in the bottom line earnings.

Della Valle is worried about RCS? RCS is a company that is doing well; I don't think that Della Valle is worried about this.

At 22, I had something I loved to do - make pizza - and something I was good at: running a business.

Why can't modern tech companies both grow and turn a profit at the same time?

Our business is strong and enjoys high margins.

If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job.

Success means making profits and avoiding losses.

Deutsche Bank has a very simple problem. It doesn't make money.

If your business is the right business, then money will never be an issue.

When you fall short of your internal forecast, two things happen: Costs go up as a percentage of sales, and margins go down.

If we are not more efficient, we put ourselves in a position where prices need to rise or profits deteriorate in a way that makes us less attractive to investors.