Yvon Chouinard Quotes

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.

No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.

If you get the product and technology right, then the rest usually falls into place.

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.

You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.

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

It's not about market share. If you have a successful company, you will get your market share. But to get a successful company, what do you have to have? The same metrics of success that your customer does.

I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn't want to interfere with it.

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

Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.

We need to take excellent care of our customers, and do so at a profit.

Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.

There are two things that create opportunities. One is being involved with something that makes money, and the other is winning awards. And the reason that winning the awards creates the opportunities is because it gives the people who are selling the picture the opportunity to make more money.

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

If the books are selling, the money will follow.

We are a mission-driven company. In order to do this, we have to build a great team. And in order to do that, you need people to know they can make a bunch of money. So we need a business model to make a lot of money.

If you make a really good product that people want and are willing to pay for, money will come.

When you look at a company that's already succeeded or is at the very top of its game, it isn't necessarily when it's executing well. It tends to be peacetime - you've defeated the competition, you have the highest margins, the highest multiple.

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

We are now after 7 months operation making money here.

I truly believe that the combination of a strong top line together with a strong bottom line is what makes for a sustainable business.

The real underlying value comes if you can put a company back into a running state and it becomes a successful viable entity if it continues to repay loans.

I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.

In the bar and restaurant industry, you're always one idea away from your next quarter-million.

Having something that makes money changes everything. I'm from England, and it's very much about credibility there. And yeah, it is about that. But the money can change things. And so you understand it's a business.