Fred DeLuca Quotes

For the most part, earnings and market value growth are a result of reduced expenses.

Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.

Margin is a customer concept.

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%.

And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the expenses of your kitchen and your wines and your wardrobe and the wages of servants, and subtract your stock.

You have to manage money. Particularly with market economies. You may have a great product, but if your bottom line goes bust, then that's it.

Business people do two things with their time fundamentally. The first is that they try to create sales, right? Revenue, key to business. But the other thing they devote their time to equally is cost containment. That is to say, how to not create jobs. Because the fewer jobs you can create for the revenue you create, the more profit you make.

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.

Cost reduction and cost control are by their very nature sort of anti-social activities.

Nobody likes a loss, but we're in the postal business. We can't make a profit.

Our wage freeze was vital to keep wages competitive with rival companies. I always try to communicate to our people that we can never make enough money. We can never make enough profit.

A small business can survive for a while without making a profit, but if its cashflow dries up, the impact is fatal.

What we are doing is increasing our focus on cash flow, return on investment, and value creation.

From the perspective of corporations, taxes are an additional cost of doing business. If you increase their taxes, to remain profitable they will have to find ways to lower other costs, or to increase revenues.

We care about margins.

You know what kind of companies generally survive? Companies that make more money than they spend. I know, duh, right?

I feel like a lot of entrepreneurs hear all this talk about profitability and realize they need to lower their burn. So, they just start chopping off perks and people.

We'll continue to take the right actions to make sure we're a profitable business.

Revenue cures everything in the business world.

Our goal is long-term growth in revenue and absolute profit - so we invest aggressively in future innovation while tightly managing our short-term costs.

Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. The other side of it is that you can't cut enough costs to save your way to prosperity.

I always try to communicate to our people that we can never make enough money. We can never make enough profit.

Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

I have always focused on the bottom line.