Ajay Piramal Quotes

Revenue cures everything in the business world.

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

My shareholders expect me to make the most profit. That's the ugly, dirty truth.

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.

My investors expect me to maximize profits.

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

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

I have a business to run and stockholders to think about.

Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent.

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?

I'm a hard-nosed businessman, that if a company is paying its way, increasing profits for thirty-odd consecutive years, you don't put it into receivership.

The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.

I don't care about revenues.

Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good response from the audience. No matter how many awards you win, if you can't earn any profit from your movie, if the audience doesn't like it, then it doesn't matter how many awards you get.

Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.

Roughly speaking, when you are dealing with business firms operating in a competitive system, you can assume that they're going to act rationally. Why? Because someone in a firm who buys things at $10 and sells them for $8.00 isn't going to last very long in that firm.

I want to see a reasonable profit, a fair profit, but we can't tolerate obscene profits.

Business is Business.

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

Business’s objective is to maximize profits—not maximize benefits to the American worker.

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit, than the labourer can without wages.

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.

If it doesn’t make economic sense, it doesn’t happen

I have a hard time with businesses that don't make money at some point.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don't eat. And I like to eat.