What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather…

Flexible supply chains are great for multinationals and consumers. But they erode already thin profit margins in developing-world factories and foster a pell-mell work…

— James Surowiecki

What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands.

— Billy Bragg

Inflation, especially a slow steady rise in prices, encourages producers, because it means that they can commit themselves to costs of production on one…

— Carroll Quigley

Wal-Mart uses technology to increase sales volume, but the more it does so, the more it drives down profit margins - its own and…

— Timothy Noah

In the U.S., PC-makers have no incentive to lower prices because it kills their profit margins. They keep adding new features like high-end retina…

— Vivek Wadhwa

By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefront ads, magazine covers or TV shows, we speak more…

— Adora Svitak

Profit margins are probably the most mean-reverting series in finance, and if profit margins do not mean-revert, then something has gone badly wrong with…

— Jeremy Grantham

The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isn't so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits…

— Zong Qinghou

Look for companies with high profit margins.

— Warren Buffett

Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can wreak havoc on their quality of life…

— Ruben Hinojosa

Think how weird profit margins are: We've got high unemployment and financial crises - and world record profit margins. People think the American market…

— Jeremy Grantham

Production for sale in a market in which the object is to realize the maximum profit is the essential feature of a capitalist world-economy.…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

Not yet have I found any better method to prosper during the future financial chaos, which is likely to last many years, than to…

— John Templeton

Brands will increasingly handle their own e-commerce and rely less and less on local distribution partners. Why should they give away their profit margins?

— Natalie Massenet

Sure enough, as merger has followed merger, journalism has been driven further down the hierarchy of values in the huge conglomerates that dominate what…

— Bill Moyers