Charles Duhigg

Often in companies, you'll see tensions between sales and marketing. Sales people will want to give discounts to clients because they often get paid a commission based on how much they sell. So they're always pushing to give discounts because that will increase sales. Marketing, however, is judged by overall profitability.

American Journalist

Amruta Khanvilkar

Commercials certainly pay more than films. I was pleasantly surprised at the profitability of commercials when I did my first ad for a popular soap brand years ago. I was paid a huge amount of money for a mere 30 seconds of screen presence. After that, ads have been a regular feature in my career.

Indian Actress

Dean Smith

Given the fact that we are in a capitalist society, we still do not want to overlook not only what a corporation produces and its profitability but also how it impacts the environment, touches human life and whether it protects or undermines the dignity of the human person.

American Athlete

Howard Schultz

Companies should not have a singular view of profitability. There needs to be a balance between commerce and social responsibility... The companies that are authentic about it will wind up as the companies that make more money.

American Businessman

Todd Gitlin

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.

American Sociologist

Richard Hayne

Repositioning a brand is never easy and rarely without pain. I believe the Urban brand is making the necessary changes that will allow it to more fully engage its traditional customer and return to solid profitability.

Shinzo Abe

Innovation and corporate governance are extremely important to improve the profitability of Japanese companies and encourage them to increase wages, capital spending, and dividends.

Japanese Statesman

Jeff Bezos

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.

Kenneth Frazier

The way we have looked at pricing at Merck is we've always said we want to be responsible, which means we want to optimize profitability and patient access.

Zig Ziglar

Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.

American Author

Profitability is often discussed in business, finance or economics related scenarios.

Business Context

It serves as an indicator of a company's performance and financial health.

Performance Indicator

While often monetary, profitability can represent other forms of valuable results.

Not Just Money

 I don't want to defend the oil and gas industry but I'd be lying if I said I was surprised to hear they were the number one polluter. I just assumed, fairly or not, that that's an industry that doesn't really mind sticking to the status quo. One where the technology doesn't really change and the focus is more so on driving profitability at the expense of a sustainable future.

3 creative ways to fix...

 incremental improvements that's how we get profits right so our profitability we want to be able to make sure that it's going to happen right we want to be able to predict it and we benefit from it so we have to be really careful incremental ism is important sometimes but we need to do a little differently

Want interstellar...

 leaving its profitability zero. That would remove the temptation to invade preemptively out of fear of them attacking you first. It removes the need for a hair trigger for retaliation to make your deterrent threat credible, and therefore, it would lead to a state of peace.

The surprising decline...

 I'd like to tell you the story of a consulting firm that helps their clients dramatically improve their profitability. That company is my company. After my first year in business, I saw the profit increases that my clients were realizing in working with me,

Know your worth, and...

 that is really interesting that the actual items you have in a store are sort of like a metaphor for the the people you have in a company like you know if you just kind of focus everything on sort of rankings whether it's profitability of like the item or

The Problem with Super...

 but hey, we would have solved the country's maths skills crisis. As a company, we've always run a double bottom line, looking to both make a return for investors as well as improve student outcomes. We know that our path to long-term profitability

This company pays kids...

 are for the world, and not, for example, to maximize the profitability of an ad model? When you know everything there is to know about human attention, you're going to know so much about the little wriggly, weird, dark parts of us.

Jeff Dean: AI isn't as...

 and at the same time is improving their own profitability, and then is able to monetize that. Our first customer was Microsoft, and they're using this for carbon credit. So why is this so important?

Beth Ford: What farmers...

 The darker the blue, the higher the revenue. We have costs, and we have revenue. So for the first time, we have been able to map the profitability of fishing in the high seas.

Let's turn the high seas...

 than the viewers of all major network and cable news shows. Now whether this says more about the conflict between integrity and profitability of corporate journalism