Erik Prince Quotes

I'm not in business to make money.

I always make sure my film benefits my producer and earns him a profit.

It's fine to do movies and say, 'We made big grosses,' but you've got to go back and ask, 'How much did it cost?' and 'Where do you make your profit?'

Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.

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

I never lost money by turning a profit.

There is nothing to be embarrassed about being profitable.

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

Our Fly Smart philosophy is about investing only on those points of differentiation that pay for themselves, that earn a revenue premium commensurate with what it costs us to provide that product or service.

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?

Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.

Never argue with a profit.

My investors expect me to maximize profits.

As long as you're a company that makes profits, all's good.

You don't do a business for pleasure: You have to make money.

If all we wanted to do was to make money on PC hardware, that wouldn't be a good business model.

It is a business. I know we, as athletes and owners and people involved with the NBA, never want to say that it's a business and things like that. It is a business.

Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.

The primary goal of a vendor is to make money.

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

The business end of business has never interested me.

Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.

The value that some analysts put on revenue vs. what they put on profit is out of whack. If you can grow real cash earnings, that's 80% of what you ought to do, and the revenue component is 20%.

It's a sin to have your films not to make money.

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