Brice P. Disque Quotes

Margin is a customer concept.

You can't run a business based on sympathies; otherwise our business would be hampered.

For business owners, there are many important documents to learn to read. One of the most important is the profit and loss statement, known as the P&L, and the balance sheet.

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

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.

Promoters don't book you 'cause they like you; they do it 'cause there's good business to be done.

From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.

I've made a profit from everything I have done in life.

I've always had an interest in business, and my interest in business has really expanded over the years.

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

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

The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

I built a huge profitable business with no debt.

You've got to know business before you go to show business.

The studios basically, besides developing some material, their strength is distribution. Distribution in any other business is a cost that you incur. You know, in a trucking business, you eat it. In a film business, distribution is a profit center.

I'm a business person at heart.

And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'

And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.

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.

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.

It's show business. No show, no business.

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

Nobody likes a loss, but we're in the postal business. We can't make a profit.

There are some who incline to favor a “minimum wage,” but who “kick at” a “maximum price.” Such surely forget that the capitalist could here just as easily as in the case of a rise in wages compelled by a workmen’s combination, or by any other cause, take his old profits out at the other end by raising the price of the manufactured article.

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.