“The number one problem in business today is profitability. Where will you be allowed to make a profit in your industry? Where is the profit zone today? Where will it be tomorrow?”
Source: The Profit Zone (2007), p. 3.
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“The number one problem in business today is profitability.”
Where will you be allowed to make a profit in your industry? Where is the profit zone today? Where will it be tomorrow?
Source: The Profit Zone (2007), p. 3.
Attributed to Slywotzky and Morrison in: John A. Byrne (1998) " Go where the money is http://www.businessweek.com/1998/04/b3562033.htm" at businessweek.com. Jan. 15, 1998.
Interview for Director magazine (4 July 1983) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105182, quoted in Chris Ogden, Maggie: An Intimate Portrait of a Woman in Power (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990), p. 345.
Second term as Prime Minister
1850s, Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society (1859)
Source: "Uncertainty, Evolution, and Economic Theory", 1950, p. 221
“Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery.”
Source: Give Me Liberty! (1998), Ch. 2 : Man, the Enslaving Animal, p. 22
Context: Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it, a suspicion that cannot be totally ignored.
“The business of business is profits.”
Source: The Dangers of Social Responsibility (Levitt, 1958).