Paul F. Tompkins Quotes

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

The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

People in retail banks are not smart. They have a business model that's quite difficult to not make money out of - but still they somehow manage it.

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?

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.

Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.

I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.

You either have to find a way to be really creative materially, or you better have a trust fund. And, last I checked, I didn't have a trust fund.

The business end of business has never interested me.

Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever.

Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.

The economy made me focus on designing more must-haves.

Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.

My concern is the really great concepts that are features, not companies. There isn't enough advertising to support all those features, and in compression times, advertisers tend to flock to safe names and sites that have real traction.

Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

First, we have to lower our costs to levels that are more competitive. This will prevent the lower-cost airlines from pushing us out of the markets we want to serve. We've made great progress on this front, but we need to keep pushing.

American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet.

People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.

I generally disagree with most of the very high margin opportunities. Why? Because it's a business strategy tradeoff: the lower the margin you take, the faster you grow.

The commercial press is not a free press, and it is not a public service organization. It is business, big business, and as such is motivated by one principle - profit.

What is “destructive competition” for producers is a bargain bonanza for consumers.

Our wage freeze was vital to keep wages competitive with rival companies. I always try to communicate to our people that we can never make enough money. We can never make enough profit.

My philosophy is to make money.

If you are focused on profits right out of the gate, you're gonna have the smallest profitable business that has ever been seen.

The networks have to answer to their sponsors. That's the difficult thing you learn.