Joe Lonsdale Quotes

The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.

The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.

Creating value isn't enough - you also need to capture some of the value you create.

The biggest difference between the private sector and public sector is in the private sector, there's a sense of urgency because you have customers and you have competitors. Whereas in government, one of your major objectives is to not make any really big mistakes.

Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever.

Unlike Marvel, we are not setting up redundant organizations for expertise that exists. We will track all DC properties to measure financial success.

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?

Business is Business.

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.

In business, we use certain principles to measure performance, and I envision applying those principles in the public sector.

I've always prided myself on doing what really was best for business.

Creativity should be balanced with commercial interests.

I assumed a business like a film studio would behave like a business and still want to protect its own interests, still do the best it could to get as many people paying for as many of their movies as possible. I realized this is not actually a business about business: it's a business of egos and dominance.

Not all of Microsoft's businesses are successful, but they have every technology possible.

The concept of profit maximization is, in fact, meaningless.

The general proposition is that the resources that will be utilized are the ones that contribute most to the overall efficiency of the production system. The third parameter has to do with our commercial world, our search for profits.

The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.

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

You go to any MBA program, and you will be taught the theory of the firm, that the purpose of the firm is the maximization of return on invested capital. I always thought this was a kind of lunacy.

Profits are one of the most important goals of any successful business, and investors are one of the most important constituencies of public businesses.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.

Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.

Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.