Larry Ellison Quotes

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

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

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

Almost every ride we're profitable on. We make money on every ride.

You need to invest in areas where you can be the market leader because then you get a disproportionate share of the economics when you are.

I'd rather have a $10 million business making 15 per cent than a $100 million business making 5 per cent.

I couldn't have predicted the business would be worth so much. I could see that we would have this sort of market share, but I didn't realise the numbers would be so large.

I've made a profit from everything I have done in life.

I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity.

It's a sin to have your films not to make money.

The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

Every Vacation movie didn't just make the studio money. They each made the studio a lot of money.

There is nothing to be embarrassed about being profitable.

As far commercial success, I don't think that's a focus but it's not that we don't enjoy that. It's not something you can attempt and achieve.

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

The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.

Ideally, I'd like to have a movie that people like and makes money.

My movies make a profit, but obviously not a fortune.

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 know that's the bottom line: if money is made, the powers that be pay attention.

I've had such a great track record in making a huge profit when the movies are smaller.

We want to be the volume number one, but also we want to have 8 percent in operating profit.

You're either making money or you're not. If you're not making money get out of the business.

We want Boeing to make a lot of money but not that much money.