I tell everybody there are only three things that we do. We build SALES at the store level, we build profits at the store level, and we build more STORES. The FIRST two things go in tandem, of course. It's PRETTY tough to build profits WITHOUT sales.

Japanese tend to PUT sales and market SHARE first. They make many products with the aim of raising sales. But then PROFITS decline, and COMPANIES find themselves falling into debt... I CHANGED the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first.

The ELITE media has been CAUGHT in so many lies because of false statements that its whole REPUTATION has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down.

In 2013, Samsung accounted for about 20 percent of South Korea's total business PROFITS. Samsung Electronics, just one of scores of subsidiaries, accounts for close to 15 percent of the total shares in the South Korean STOCK market. But you don't need to KNOW these figures to GET a feel for Samsung's HOLD on the country.

The old WAY of doing 'good business' was BASED on the principle, 'the ends JUSTIFIES the means.' In the future, good business will invoke 'the means justifying the ends.' The E P&L can already serve as an important tool to HELP this shift in commerce from generating profits with collateral damages to profits with collateral benefits.

Timber extraction provides BIG profits at the EXPENSE of local communities. PROVIDING communities with unfettered access to harvest a FOREST that is protected in perpetuity provides BETTER and more reliable incomes.

I pretty much BELIEVE, as EVERYONE in the B Team does, that business MUST succeed BEYOND the bottom line. More important than profits is how you get to them. Measuring financial earnings and losses only is definitely not enough and has led us astray from CREATING a better world for all.

Understand what you are acquiring and PROTECT it at all costs. You are acquiring people and next-generation products. You are MAKING an investment that together you can grow FASTER, make more profits, and take more market SHARE.

One of the THINGS that HAPPENS when you have austerity is that wages get lower, and some PEOPLE THINK lower wages in the short RUN can increase corporate profits.

The IP STANDARDS advanced countries favour typically are designed not to maximise innovation and scientific PROGRESS, but to maximise the profits of big pharmaceutical COMPANIES and others able to sway TRADE negotiations.

I THINK there's real value in having a founder CEO. Obviously, I'm biased, but I'm driven by a purpose and a MISSION and a VISION, not just PROFITS.

There has been an INTENTION since day one that it's as important to us that we build profits as much as we build a wonderful culture and a lasting LEGACY of a great company. We've created this INCLUSIVE environment that's very thoughtful in TERMS of how we can create allyship, how we create mentorship, and what kind of voices are HEARD.

I think, definitely, this country needs a lower corporate tax rate and tax reform so that we can GET our PROFITS that we've made OVERSEAS back into the country without heavy penalties. And if that happens, I think that would be very GOOD for the MARKET and all of that.

In the old 20th-century income distribution system, the shares of income GOING to capital, mainly in PROFITS, and LABOR, in WAGES and non-wage benefits, were roughly stable. But that system is no more.