Gail Kim Quotes

At the end of the day, it's show business: you earn money to make money.

Everyone wants to call wrestling 'the business.' Why don't you treat it like a business? I don't care if you're running a diner, if you're running a car wash or a wrestling company. It's all business.

It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business.

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

I used to say I'm not a business. I'm not! But I've had to come round to it, to acknowledge that you had to be an organisation and had to have a business dimension in order to do your passion.

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.

If you are in the world of business, that means you are in the business of making money.

Chasing profits and building a long-term profit model are two different things.

With WWE, it's a massive machine, and you will air in 120 countries and have action figures and towels.

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

In any business, you get your numbers together before you go out and do the work.

For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.

I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business.

I learned that you shouldn't take your most esoteric concept and fit it into the largest space with the highest fixed costs. It puts too much pressure on the restaurant to hit grand slams every day when there just aren't enough people who want to watch that sport.

This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

I have a business to run and stockholders to think about.

Japanese tend to put sales and market share first. They make many products with the aim of raising sales. But then profits decline, and companies find themselves falling into debt... I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first.

Companies that get confused, that think their goal is revenue or stock price or something. You have to focus on the things that lead to those.

When you're talking about capital and financial things, which I certainly pay a lot of attention to, I base those decisions on one question that I typically ask myself, which is 'Does it help us to build a better company?'

And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy.

Professional sports is a business.

I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.

Business is Business.

Sometimes, for businesses, competition can be inconvenient, because competition means that the race is never over, the game is never won. No matter how well you were doing in the past, there's always someone who are out there wanting to take your place. So the temptation to avoid competition is powerful. It's rooted in motives as old as Adam and Eve: in greed for yet more money, in fear of losing your position in the market and all the benefits it brings.