Sonny Mehta Quotes

You know what kind of companies generally survive? Companies that make more money than they spend. I know, duh, right?

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.

If I get a lucky win, it is difficult to sustain that over time, so we have to maintain a style.

In business, no one pays you to have a really good year and then 10 bad years.

Chasing profits and building a long-term profit model are two different things.

We'll continue to take the right actions to make sure we're a profitable business.

If we look at pricing holistically, we'll create a more solid business.

I'm satisfied it's very black, meaning 'in the black'.

There will be no interruption of our permanent prosperity.

We've always actually been remarkably commercially successful. Not in terms of making huge amounts of money, which we rarely do, but in terms of not losing money and making modest amounts of money. We're actually strangely consistent in that respect.

As a business owner, I understand the importance of prioritizing your bottom line, but it's equally as important to consider how you can succeed while also thinking about the long-term impact on the community.

I think the model of the Championship should be reconsidered, because the turnover of owners, keep changing all the time every one, two, three years, is not really healthy system for the fans, for the clubs - this is because it is really not sustainable to stay in the Championship.

Getting to profitability does not mean all our problems are solved.

Revenue cures everything in the business world.

Either you sit on the pile of cash, or you continue to grow.

All of my businesses are profitable.

Keep your shop, and your shop will keep you.

This is our 40th year in business. We don't have a single penny from outside investors, and we never borrowed heavily from the banks. We have a healthy balance sheet and more credit than we can use.

I have always focused on the bottom line.

Earning money is not a sin, and the bottom line is growth.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

We're certainly interested in maximizing our return and doing it - we're interested in maximizing our return, but we're also interested in doing it over a long period of time and in doing it in a way that never endangers the firm from a survivability standpoint.

The biggest thrill wasn't in winning on Sunday but in meeting the payroll on Monday.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.