“It's clear to me when you do private equity well, you're making companies more efficient and helping them grow and become more profitable. That success means our investors - such as public pension funds - benefit, which contributes to the economic wealth of society.” WellsMeanHelpingGrowsWealthCompanyClearEconomicBenefitsFundInvestorsEfficientEquityProfitablePensionPrivate Equity Author:David Rubenstein
“I think regular Iowans are cynical of this whole idea of corporate welfare, with the biggest awards going to the most profitable companies. It doesn't make sense.” ThinkingIdeasWholeCompanyCorporateMake SenseWelfareAwardsCynicalProfitable Author:David F. Swensen
“I have always been an advocate and was, in my last job at M&S, a supporter of the Al Gore dictum that a sustainable business can be a profitable business. We were the first sizeable company in the UK to prove that was the case.” FirstsJobsLastsCompanyCasesProveAlsSupporterProfitableGoreProfitable Business Author:Stuart Rose
“The whole time I was a union leader, we had to put up with John Howard and Tony Abbott attacking workers' conditions. I'm proud of being a moderate trade union official, working co-operatively between employees and employers. I'm interested in better wages for workers, better safety, job security, and, profitable companies, because I understand that if you get co-operation in the workplace, everyone wins.” IfsWholeJobsWinningCompanyLeaderConditionsSecurityProudSafetyTradeUnionsWorkersOperationsOfficialsEmployeeWorkplaceWagesModeratesEmployersAttackingProfitableTrade UnionsEmployees And Employers Author:Bill Shorten
“Companies that model best practices, that model the most upstanding principles, end up as the most profitable. It's not a trade of profits versus principles.” EndsCompanyPrinciplesPracticeModelsTradeProfitVersusProfitableBest Practices Author:Philip Zimbardo
“Vacations for wage earners have proved both popular with workers and profitable for employers. Unfortunately, the majority of large employers have not yet followed the example set by a number of progressive corporations. I don't know of a single company that has abandoned vacations for wage earners after having tried the experiment. But I do know many that are delighted with the fruits they have gathered. Under some of the plans vacations with pay must be earned by good behavior, punctuality, etc.... The best results have come where the treatment has been regarded as most liberal.” KnowsHas BeensResultsNumbersPayCompanyPlansExampleBehaviorMajorityFruitWorkersExperimentsCorporationsEtcTreatmentProgressiveAbandonedVacationEmployersProfitableDelightedPunctualityGood Behavior Author:B. C. Forbes
“Wait until companies have an initial prototype, have shown that they have the potential to be profitable and have the ability to scale. That's the best time to invest.” WaitingAbilityCompanyInvestingScalesInitialsProfitableBest TimesPrototype Author:Dave McClure
“Even in those earlier times, finding the really outstanding companies and staying with them through all the fluctuations of a gyrating market proved far more profitable to far more people than did the more colorful practice of trying to buy them cheap and sell them dear.” PeopleTryingCompanyPracticeFindingsSellsInvestingDearStayingProfitableOutstandingColorfulFluctuation Author:Philip Arthur Fisher
“We [H&M] believe that growth, profit and sustainability are not contradictory. Our ambition is to be a fair and profitable company, because otherwise we couldn't open any new stores, we couldn't produce new designs and no new jobs would be created. H&M would soon cease to exist.” BelieveWould BeJobsGrowthCompanyDesignProduceAmbitionFairsProfitStoresCeaseSustainabilityProfitableContradictoryNew Job Author:Karl-Johan Persson
“The de industrialization of the US. economy based on the migration of corporations into third world areas where labor is very cheap and thus more profitable for these companies creates on the one hand conditions in those countries that encourage people to emigrate to the US. in search of a better life. On the other hand, it creates conditions here that send more black people into the alternative economies, the drug economies, women into economies in sexual services, and sends them into the prison industrial complex.” PeopleWorldCountryHandsBlackCompanyEconomyConditionsDrugAreasLaborThirdsPrisonComplexesAlternativesCorporationsBlack PeopleBetter LifeProfitableThird WorldMigrationIndustrialization Author:Angela Davis
“We will still be enormously profitable and by far the most profitable enterprise software company.” InspirationalStillsCompanyEnterpriseSoftwareProfitableSoftware Company Author:Larry Ellison