Richard Edelman Quotes

The primary goal of a vendor is to make money.

If you go out there and start making noise and making sales - people will find you. Sales cure all. You can talk about how great your business plan is and how well you are going to do. You can make up your own opinions, but you cannot make up your own facts. Sales cure all.

The only purpose of advertising is to make sales. It is profitable or unprofitable according to its actual sales.

My hardcover sales are 17% down in books but up 400% in electronics.

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

Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy.

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

I never really paid attention to sales until the second record.

With the scale of our traffic, content library and monetization ability, we are confident to see profitable growth in the future.

Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.

I think right now the jury is out on where and how much profit is available in the consumer electronics industry, because if you look at the current consumer electronics players, the biggest ones on the planet struggle to make profit consistently.

A lot of people love Oreos. So their manufacturer is making money. That means more dividends for shareholders.

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

Margin is a customer concept.

2008 was a good - a very successful year for Volkswagen.

General Motors is not in the business of making cars. It is in the business of making money.

I don't really know anything about sales figures, to be honest with you.

I just want to make a difference. I want to make Chrysler the most profitable car company in the United States.

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.

A board member of mine used to say sales fix everything in a startup, and that is really true.

Sales fixes everything.

Our first fiscal year, we were profitable.

Part of how we decide how we allocate our media is we have fairly sophisticated ways of measuring our return on marketing spend, which helps us best analyze the most effective way and medium in which to spend our marketing dollars.

If you have a business that isn't growing the top line, it's very hard to deliver attractive returns to shareholders.

United's 2015 earnings were one of the best in the company's history.