Masatoshi Koshiba Quotes

It's a sin to have your films not to make money.

I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.

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

There is still an element of the BBC that feels it is somehow wrong, or it will be open to criticism, if it makes more money.

The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters.

There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.

Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.'

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

My shareholders expect me to make the most profit. That's the ugly, dirty truth.

Most companies are out to make money. They aren't worried about anything except whether they can buy their new BMW next month.

When there's millions of dollars at stake, everybody is going to look for an advantage.

The business is so driven by money, everyone's trying to get it right.

At times, some journalists see nothing in the people apart from an opportunity to make material gain. They see them as consumers to whom we sell commodities at huge profits that keep our bank accounts growing.

The studios will go wherever they smell money. It's like sharks to the blood.

Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions.

The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.

I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

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

The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.

My only loyalty is to what's best for business, not to any set of constituents.

There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.

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

But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes.