Business Motives Quotes

If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they're just greedy, and consumers are just consuming for the sake of their own greed.

Unlike public universities and private, not-for-profit colleges, for-profit schools are owned by revenue-seeking businesses often more intent on boosting their bottom line than educating their students. They use hard-sell tactics to recruit prospective students, and veterans have become particular targets.

Trump's one consistent position is that he will stop at nothing to protect his properties and his profits.

Should a story be readily told in a PG-13 fashion, it should be for creative, not business, reasons.

If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden in it somewhere. But when Bernard Shaw says the Christmas Day is only a conspiracy kept up by poulterers and wine merchants from strictly business motives, then he says something which is not so much false as startling and arrestingly foolish. He might as well say that the two sexes were invented by jewellers who wanted to sell wedding rings.

Behind all the hype shaping the electronic highway are corporate interests. These huge companies are doing the most natural thing in the world to them; following their own corporate interest.

You know the expression, "It's not personal; it's business." We sneer at such rot. All business is personal, all the time.

On what possible basis would I want to stop someone from buying BHS if I had tried to save it?

The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy.

Businessmen are always trying to advance their business interests, but they are not running for Prime Minister.

If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.

The networks are business-oriented cowards.