Theo Epstein Quotes

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

Profits are one of the most important goals of any successful business, and investors are one of the most important constituencies of public businesses.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

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

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

It's always about bringing in the numbers, the viewership. That's what gets you the money.

It is a business. I know we, as athletes and owners and people involved with the NBA, never want to say that it's a business and things like that. It is a business.

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.

Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.

Our goal is to make General Motors the most valuable automotive company. Clearly, that is having sustainable profitability and driving great returns for our shareholders.

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

I had Dell for four and a half years, and its sales are still phenomenal, but their operating margins started to contract, so I sold it in early 1999. There's nothing wrong with Dell! It's a fine company. It's just the business risk they took.

Today, the competition is considerably more intense.

We have never seen a sport as a business, and we have this great passion for football. QPR are not a trophy asset. If we had wanted a trophy asset, there were more glamorous clubs we could have bought.

In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that.

In the technology world, you have to execute fast or you're out of business.

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.

The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

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

The margin for making mistakes has gotten much smaller. In a commodity economy, it's hard to kill off your business. You still have the mine. You still have oil wells. You can always rebuild. In a knowledge economy, if you make a mistake, you're in trouble.

Cerner has significant growth opportunities. We believe there is leverage with HNA Millennium and in our business model that can grow both our top-line and earnings during 2000 and through the foreseeable part of this decade.

You have to be willing to risk things; otherwise, somebody else will put you out of business.

Companies are bought for their revenue, customer base, technology, or people. A few great companies offer all of these, but any valuable business offers one.

Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.

Radio is commercial, isn't it. Its a business.