Larry Harvey Quotes

There's very little substitute in the business world for making money.

Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year.

My thing is to have a good, profitable company, for it to be 100% owned independently.

There is an excellent correlation between giving society what it wants and making money, and almost no correlation between the desire to make money and how much money one makes.

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.

All of my businesses are profitable.

Yahoo is positioned for accelerated financial growth. We have a powerful consumer brand, a huge global audience, and a highly profitable operating model.

It's a fire, it's a passion to get out and to create and to innovate. And that I've always enjoyed and I've always been very proud of is that the people I've done business with, the people around me have always made money.

The only one that seems to be able to hold the business is Disney. They do it is because they have a fabulous philosophy about marketing- but even they wavered.

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 general market wants what I do.

I truly believe that Yahoo! is one of the most compelling and dominant companies in the world.

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

That's the ultimate gratification in any business situation - do customers buy the product? And do they use it and do they come back and buy more of it?

Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.

I am sure there will come a time when we are going to use AMD. The products have been getting better. The acceptance is getting better. But we have not been suffering as a company for either growth or profitability because we haven't had AMD.

We have the fact we sell out every week to 67,500 and hopefully 75,000 in the future. We have a lot of assets.

If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.

If the books are selling, the money will follow.

If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It's very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that's never been more clearly evident than in today's NBA game.

Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make.

We are now after 7 months operation making money here.

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

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.

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