Profit Focus Quotes

In order to generate extraordinary profits, you must have a focus that is beyond profits. You need to focus on how you serve your clients.

If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.

I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.

Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.

Times change; Hollywood is not the same as it was when I first entered the business. It felt to me like it was starting to narrow down and centralize itself around what would... make money.

The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters.

I don't need every customer. I'm primarily in the business of selling a product for money. How much effort do I really want to devote to satisfying people who are unable or extremely unlikely to pay for anything?

If you count all your assets you always show a profit.

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

Here's what I know about the business I am in. It's all based on money. It's all based on ratings.

I'm not going to run my business on the basis of quarterly numbers.

The biggest lesson I learned in the bar business is to focus on revenues. Dollars, not dimes.

I truly believe that capitalism was created to help people live better lives, but sadly over the years it has lost its way a bit. The short-term focus on profit has driven most businesses to forget about the important long-term role they have in taking care of people and the planet.

Well, well-run companies always have a focus on growth and the two lines, which includes profit. The key thing during, I think, tough times, is to make sure that you've covered the basis for when something, you know, essentially things taking longer, bad luck, adversity, other kinds of circumstances may occur. Make sure that you can monitor to win, it's potentially, you know, something is going to go wrong, monitor early enough, and then take appropriate action to essentially counteract that or shift your strategy or plan, even if in fact something is not working out as well as it is.

I'm a very business-minded person.

Whoever has a keen eye for profits, is blind in relation to his craft.

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.