Henry Ford Quotes

We have never considered any costs as fixed. Therefore we first reduce the price to a point where we believe more sales will result. Then we go ahead and try to make the price. We do not bother about the costs. The new price forces the cost down.

Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. The other side of it is that you can't cut enough costs to save your way to prosperity.

The crucial point is always the own cost structure. Therefore I created a Low Cost alliance with air Berlin.

If a manager can't control his costs, fire them.

All of us are going to have to find ways to do things more efficiently, find ways to get our costs more in line, and do it in a time of higher regulatory and environmental standards.

We believe that our cost effectiveness is one of our most powerful competitive advantages in Networks, and we will not lose sight of that in the future.

Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots.

Profit or perish... There are only two ways to make money: increase sales and decrease costs.

When you raise prices, you've got to make sure you get it to the bottom line. You can fritter it away because of the way you're running the business, with maybe not a totally disciplined approach.

The key to building a sustainable content company is to control costs.

There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.

I think that a lot of companies are still amazingly price sensitive.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.

There are companies that are cutting their costs by over 50% by offshoring.

If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long.

Cost reduction and cost control are by their very nature sort of anti-social activities.

Budget drives everything that we do.

Virtually all Federal accounting is still oriented toward preventing fraud and theft, not toward controlling costs.

They call it managed care but it really is only managed costs.

I really don't want the best people at the highest cost.

There's usually room in the theme parks business for efficiencies on the cost side and new investment, which drives traffic.

While 2015 was challenging, we implemented many strategic and operational initiatives to improve our business and better position J.Crew for the future.

Look first at management. That's the key to a company.

One of my main agenda right from the beginning has been cost rationalization, and we have done a lot of cost rationalization.