Profitability Quotes

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Daves track record of revenue growth combined with strong profitability performance in both Customer Care and Information Management reflects his deep knowledge of the business and the needs of our clients. While we are making good progress in 2005 and we remain comfortable with our 2005 revenue and earnings guidance, Daves leadership will allow us to continue to build our growth and profitability while further leveraging our unique customer care and billing value proposition.

- James Orr

Dave`s track record of revenue growth combined with strong profitability performance in both customer care and information management reflects his deep knowledge of the business and the needs of our clients, ... While we are making good progress in 2005 and we remain comfortable with our 2005 revenue and earnings guidance, Dave`s leadership will allow us to continue to build our growth and profitability while further leveraging our unique customer care and billing value proposition.

- James Orr

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

- Todd Gitlin

Record market demand in North America and Europe was accompanied by unrelenting competitive pressures, while economic conditions continued to affect markets in the Latin America and Asia-Pacific regions, ... We`re particularly pleased that GM Europe improved its profitability during the period, and that both GM Latin America/Africa/Middle East and GM Asia Pacific were profitable, a significant improvement over the first quarter last year.

- Jack Smith

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn`t be in this business.

- Jeff Bezos

I won`t close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it inappropriate for even an exceptionally profitable company to fund an operation once it appears to have unending losses in prospect. Adam Smith would disagree with my first proposition and Karl Marx would disagree with my second; the middle ground is the only position that leaves me comfortable.

- Warren Buffett

You can write off the chance of the Reserve Bank cutting rates this year and well into next year. Good profitability means you can hire people.

- Michael Thomas

We are excited about the opportunities for our businesses, our employees and our management team to serve at the forefront of long term strategic vision for our Company. Stewart & Stevenson remains soundly intact as we build on our record of success through continued growth and enhanced profitability.

- John Simmons

The pace of change in (software) pricing models is accelerating. A lot of software companies are still trying to figure out how to do multi-core processors .?.?. and still get the same level of profitability they had before.

- Dave Edwards

Profitability doesn`t happen when you`re walking on bullshit.

- Jerry Martin

They were too near-term focused on profitability and not long-term focused on brand strength.

- Matthew Reilly

I think it hurts profitability more than the business because the airlines have tried and tried to pass on higher fares, and it`s not going to happen.

- Alan Seay

And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball`s profitability by `running the game like a business.`

- Allan Gurganus

I am sure there will come a time when we are going to use AMD. The products have been getting better. The acceptance is getting better. But we have not been suffering as a company for either growth or profitability because we haven`t had AMD.

- Allen Trump

If your goal is anything but profitability - if it`s to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you`ll hit problems.

- Amanda Zuke

Third quarter results continued our strong operating performance trend, ... New orders exceeded $540 million in the quarter, despite Joy Mining experiencing a $62 million decline in roof support orders from the same quarter last year. Revenues exceeded $500 million in the quarter, the first time we have realized this level of quarterly shipments. Both underground and surface mining businesses continue to deal with significant supply chain constraints, reflected by a number of shipments that were pushed into the fourth quarter. Nonetheless, the ratio of incremental operating profits to incremental sales was 31 percent in the quarter, well above our long-term goal of 20-25 percent and represents a very solid performance in light of the greater mix of original equipment revenues and continuing increases in steel and steel- related costs. Conditions in our end markets continue to point to an extended, strong global mining cycle. We face the challenge of increasing capacity to meet demand, while managing a tight supply chain. Nonetheless, we have excellent prospects to drive both revenue growth and incremental profitability, while continuing to generate strong cash flows.

- Angie Watson

(Still,) profitability has increased each year, ... very little debt and a strong balance sheet.

- Anshukant Taneja

Morgan Stanley has tremendous strengths as a global financial services firm, but it is clear that our current level of profitability is unacceptable and we need to improve our performance, ... Our overriding goal for Morgan Stanley is to be the clear leader in offering premier, innovative financial services to our clients, while delivering superior returns to our shareholders. The decisions to keep Discover, divest the aircraft leasing business and strengthen our retail business are our first steps toward achieving that goal.

- Art Walker

I would say that profitability did contract in 2005 as a result of increased competition. Many shops are working for less money but making up for it on volume and hopefully that is a trend that won`t continue.

- Artur Schnabel

We`ve been operating at a loss there for some time. It`s being done to return operations there to profitability.

- Avram Patt

It is going to put a major dent in GM`s profitability, but GM is stuck right now.

- Barbara Chamberlain

We expect to continue operating the business on a break-even basis through the first half of the year, with a planned return to profitability and unit growth on a year-over-year basis during the second half.

- Barbara Miningham