Why You Should Always Focus on Profit | 52

About this episode

This episode discusses the critical importance of profit over revenue for business success.

"Revenue is vanity, profit is sanity, and cash is king." Wow! How's that for a quote. It's from Alan Miltz by the way, who co-wrote Scaling Up. I'm not sure I completely buy in to the idea that revenue is vanity, but it does the make the rhyme work. And it's a good lead-in to today's episode. We're talking about the ONE thing that will actually determine whether your business survives and thrives or becomes another statistic: And that's PROFIT. Not revenue. Not followers. Not subscribers. Profit. See the full show notes at toniakendrick.com/52 Connect with Tonia Website | Instagram | Membership

People in this episode

Host: Tonia Kendrick

Topics covered

• profit
• business survival
• entrepreneurship
• revenue vs profit
• financial health

Keywords

• profit
• revenue
• business
• entrepreneurship
• financial health
• scaling up
• cash flow

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Scaling Up

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