David Gill Quotes

Yahoo is positioned for accelerated financial growth. We have a powerful consumer brand, a huge global audience, and a highly profitable operating model.

What do you want your business to do? Make money, of course. To pay for people and supplies, to be able to grow.

By the year 2020, we envision our group to be the largest hotel developer in the Philippines, with a total portfolio of around 12,000 hotel rooms.

PepsiCo is a $63 billion company. Half the company is snacks, and half the company is beverages. We have a glorious snacks business and a glorious beverage business. We are extremely profitable. We are growing.

Our planes should be full, which among other things means we have a golden opportunity... to build on the momentum reflected in the financial results we are reporting today.

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.

Businesswise, everything's been good.

Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.

If we want, we can be profitable, but we are focusing on growth. We don't comment on profitability, but we do look at it internally. And many of our Ola cities are profitable. But our focus across all cities is growth.

We really must recover our financial performance and take Nintendo back into the position in the marketplace where it is well appreciated.

If you want to grow a business, you want to make profit. Only then it is good business.

That's the ultimate gratification in any business situation - do customers buy the product? And do they use it and do they come back and buy more of it?

There are a handful of legacy clubs like the Dodgers in each league. They're in major markets and have a history of winning where, if you do things right, there's an enormous upside.

I never dreamed I could build a $100 million company. I just happened to build a $1 million company that became a $5 million company, and so on.

Travelex has grown into a global business in just 25 years. The acquisition of Thomas Cook's Global & Financial Services has created a business that would have had a combined turnover of U.S. $28.4 billion in 2000.

I did everything in my power to give my brokers brand identity and clout in the market. I saw my job as parent to build them up and if I took care of them, then they would take care of their customer.

Well, as we built the business in the 1990's, as I said, I enjoyed that.

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

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.

We want to make as big a market as we can with our current product.

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

Kleenex would have made a mint today.

We are now after 7 months operation making money here.

Combining their operating business will make Volkswagen and Porsche even stronger - both financially and strategically - going forward.