Martin Shkreli Quotes

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

I have a business to run and stockholders to think about.

I liked being CEO of Blockbuster, but my job is to put it on the bottom line for shareholders.

A corporation that is publicly traded, it has one goal: to make money. It doesn't have a soul. If it does have a soul, it comes from the people who run it.

My investors expect me to maximize profits.

Our responsibility is to maximise shareholder value, and if that means we can make short-term investment where we can maximise short-term value, we can do that.

We need to create shareholder value. That is why I am here. That is what I need to do.

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

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

Can we please agree that in the real world, corporations exist for one purpose and one purpose only - to make as much money as possible, which means cutting costs as much as possible?

As a pro-business Democrat, I understand the obligations of publicly traded companies to maximize returns to shareholders.

Companies that are publicly held have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to try to maximize their profits within ethical reasons.

We have an obligation to provide a return for our shareholders.

There is still too much pressure on short-termism in terms of the drivers of success.

Too many companies are running their business into the ground, I would argue, by being myopically short-term focused on the shareholder.

It is very clear for us; we will do whatever is in the best interest of Shriram shareholders.

One of my major objectives is to build a long-term enterprise, to build shareholder value over time.

For a long time, the film business was a single-digit business on investment return. Now, because of home video, it's a low double-digit business, and the studios want to make sure it doesn't go back into the single-digit business.

By doing what they must do to keep their margins strong and their stock price healthy, every company paves the way for its own disruption.

My philosophy is that you sell things for more than you bought them.

I always try to communicate to our people that we can never make enough money. We can never make enough profit.

Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

The ultimate arbiters of the models of banking and the management of banking are the investors. It's the shareholders.

You go to any MBA program, and you will be taught the theory of the firm, that the purpose of the firm is the maximization of return on invested capital. I always thought this was a kind of lunacy.