Seth Godin Quotes

Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.

Companies don't get rich hurting their customers.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

If you can serve everyone who visits you, you must be doing well in business.

The goal should be to build a sustainable lifestyle business that does good for employees and customers - and that steadily builds wealth.

Goodrich is a perfect addition to our Hamilton Sundstrand business. And with a strong portfolio of complementary products, Goodrich also brought great leadership balance, great opportunities to provide more integrated systems.

Xerox's innovative technology and service offerings - delivered through an expanding distribution system with a lean and flexible business model - continue to solidify our market leadership, driving consistently strong earnings performance.

Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.

Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.

You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.

I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.

My desire to participate in the business is not to make more crap.

A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.

Industry leaders have the power to set standards.

Business is Business.

Leaders must be reminded that Businesses exist for the service of men.

We are going to continue to run a business, and we are going to continue to meet the supply and demand that's out there.

I just want to make a difference. I want to make Chrysler the most profitable car company in the United States.

Winning is good for your bottom line.

When I see some of the work in the commercial PC sector, some of our top focus is in India.

Customers should be number 1, Employees number 2, and then only your Shareholders come at number 3.

The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services.

Customers today want the very most and the very best for the very least amount of money, and on the best terms. Only the individuals and companies that provide absolutely excellent products and services at absolutely excellent prices will survive.

...it's always been difficult for us to lead an examined life as a corporation. I've always felt like a company has the responsibility to not wait for the government to tell it what to do, or to wait for the consumer to tell it what to do, but as soon as it finds out it's doing something wrong, stop doing it.