Mark Zuckerberg Quotes

If you have a great idea that can translate elsewhere, then that's where the scalability comes in - and that's where you can actually start to make real money.

If your goal is to provide a service at terms your customers can afford, you have to figure out how to offer your services at price points such that your aggregated costs are lower than your aggregated revenues.

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

Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.

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

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.

You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business.

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.

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.

In general, you don't want competitors to understand your business outside of telling people your revenue and profitability numbers.

Whenever one or more components of a company's business model changes, new business models are created for supporting companies. The changes might involve niches served, new marketing angles or improved value propositions.

The studios basically, besides developing some material, their strength is distribution. Distribution in any other business is a cost that you incur. You know, in a trucking business, you eat it. In a film business, distribution is a profit center.

If Vancouver did not succeed as Starbucks from '87 on, our entire international business, which is now thousands of stores and a significant amount of growth and profit, may not have existed.

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?

The ability to scale up is hard. So the best model for us is concentrated India, diversified financial services, and through this, we can get significant scale on an Indian platform.

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

The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record that's not too expensive, so that you're not going crazy spending tons of money making a product that might not ever return that money.

It is commonly our Scots way to do little business but squeeze up high prices, whereas it would much more real advantage to enlarge the business, have the profit, though small upon it, yet many smalls to make a great.

The swamp is a business model. It's a successful business model.

When I think of revenue growth, I think of the words 'mix' and 'shift.'

After operating in three diverse markets, we have determined ShopHouse hasn't demonstrated an attractive unit economic model.

Why can't modern tech companies both grow and turn a profit at the same time?

What we are doing is increasing our focus on cash flow, return on investment, and value creation.

In 1992, we did $1.1 billion in revenues. In the first nine months of 1993, we did just under $1.2 billion.