Doug Baldwin Quotes

Sports has always been a pass-through. You pay for something, and then you pass it through to television, you pass it through to advertisers, or you pass it through to season-ticket holders, luxury boxes and then the fans. Then it all adds up, and you take in more than you pass out.

You have to be cynical because this is a business. Everyone is making money out of you.

If WikiLeaks were a for-profit company, determining its real value would be a nearly impossible task.

We have never seen a sport as a business, and we have this great passion for football. QPR are not a trophy asset. If we had wanted a trophy asset, there were more glamorous clubs we could have bought.

I have always focused on the bottom line.

There isn't one thing the federal government does that anybody in Big Business would emulate, at least not in the profit sector.

In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.

I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football.

What is true of the NFL is that it has been well-managed over the years. And that has been beneficial to the fans, it's been beneficial to the game itself, it's been beneficial to the players, coaches and everyone involved.

My only loyalty is to what's best for business, not to any set of constituents.

And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.

The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring.

The public be damned. What does the public care for railroads except to get as much out of them for as small a consideration as possible? I don't take any stock in this silly nonsense about working for anybody's good but our own, because we are not. When we make a move, we do it because it is in our interest to do so, and not because we expect to do somebody else good.

The NBA is going to do what they want to do. They're going to do what's best for them; not what's best for us.

It's called show business for a reason. The theater owners want to make money, and understandably so.

You balance sport and business by having a sustainable model for a club and by winning. Because winning makes people feel better.

The label does what's good for the label. Always.

Not everybody's actions are based on ideas. Some people's actions are based on profit.

The people in the grandstand just want to see good driving, good overtaking. But inside the sport everything is about money and politics. It's stupid. And I'm not just talking about Formula One. It's every sport.

At the end of the day, it's show business: you earn money to make money.

If you look at firms like General Electric or other large companies, they don't just do one thing; they do many different things to generate sources of revenue.

I think the private sector for the most part, the vast majority of employers in America, they wake up in the morning, and they have a bottom line. This is how much they make, this is how much their expenses are; they certainly need to break even just to stay in business, and they need to make a profit in order to survive long-term.

You have to have a business model you believe in and like.

If I had taken money from, say, venture capital, they would have wanted a certain return in a certain time period. McDonald's, on the other hand, seemed very interested in my passion about creating this brand. I trusted them, and they did not really interfere with the brand.

The business side of football makes it seem as though the owners are now more important than the fans.