Gail Simmons Quotes

In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.

Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.

If we look at pricing holistically, we'll create a more solid business.

They will therefore not be in a hurry to risk their entire business by expanding too rapidly, but they are the major indicator of whether the manufacturing industry accepts there is a sustainable business in RFID production.

I needed to make the buyer happy: I needed to provide a price point and sort of a model that was attractive to them. But I also needed to make the contributor happy.

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

I've said this over the years publicly - this is not a lucrative business. My goal every year is to break even with the White Sox.

Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.

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

You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial otherwise the films don't make money and you don't make films and as a long as a commodity is selling it's silly to kill it dead.

There is a healthy competition as there would be in any business. But we do not spend our days thinking about what Marvel is doing.

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

Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.

This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.

I'm not in business to make money.

As a retailer, we want everyone out there to earn more money, but then if you're running a business, and we can't make money because the wages are too high, that's a problem.

Thermostats are made by very large companies with no incentive to innovate. Their customers are contractors or HVAC wholesalers, not consumers. So why spend to make them better? It's a good business.

Part of the film business is, if you want an apple, you buy an apple.

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

When most people ask about a business growing, what they really mean is growing revenue, not just growing the number of people using a service. Traditional businesses would view people using your service that you don't make money from as a cost.

In order to have the next generation of modems, you would need to pour in even more R&D spending. We came to the conclusion that we're going to have a tough time to really see that we are going to succeed in the modems business.

At a European auto show, I had someone from a German car company come up to me and say the Karma should cost $125,000, not $87,900, but our development process lets us lower the costs. I guarantee it's profitable.

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.

If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long.

The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring.