There's the dialog between Satler and Hammond in the first movie where they pretty much spell it out. It's about control. Making a profit off of control, controlling nature for the ability to do so, controlling customers.
"And we can charge anything!! $1000 a day, $10,000 a day, and people will pay it!"
It's all about layers of control, and how control eventually backfires.
In the first movie Hammond is trying to control the employees working for him so that he can be a famous P.T. Barnum-like figure, known for entertaining the children/everyone with something unbeatable. He can't get what he wants from doing things in the small scale, so he hires professionals and experts... then looks for the underbidders believing that the economically strapped will be easier to motivate.
The investors are trying to control Hammond to secure the greatest amount of profit out of the place they can. They are there to provide Hammond the cash he needs to do his project, and they and Hammond, both know it. They don't want to be financiers, they want to control the project. It's their money, they want to be in charge.
Gennaro (the Lawyer) want to be in control of... well anything he can get his hands on, but he has nothing in life that really gives him that power. So when he's chosen by the investors he tries to dick-swing with the big dongs.
Woo is trying to control the nature of biology itself, and thinks he's done exactly that.
Muldoon thinks he can control animals because he's learned many of their behaviors as a hunter.
When the chips are down though, all of the control everyone is trying to achieve is not just an illusion, it's a self deluding lie.
Woo can't control biology, because biology is the result of nature. He can work with it, but nature can't be mastered, only understood. So dinosaurs that aren't supposed to be able to breed (because they're not entirely dinosaurs) can and do. Meaning that there are populations growing on the island that no one knows about, and can't control.
The investors can't control Hammond, he's too canny and business savvy. Not only do they not know what's on the island, they don't have a background to be able to understand that Hammond doesn't really have dinosaurs, he has something new, and very very dangerous on his hands, with no knowledge of what to properly do with it. They don't know that Site B exists. And they don't care what kind of man Gennaro is, they just want him to reestablish their dominance. They expect him to reassert their authority (Respect ma'authoritaa!!!) instead he jumps ship.
Hammond is good at manipulating people with a lot of money... but can't control his employees. When dealing with high-skilled, educated people, ripping them off is that last thing you want to do (this is true for everyone though, but it's what the business world has convinced itself works best, and not just in the movie). But that is exactly what the business community likes... and Hammond likes it too. Nedry isn't loyal to anything, and strapped for cash due to underbidding too low. ANYONE with an offer for enough cash to get his time will get his loyalty, and they do.
The ones that point it all out are the ones that study nature to understand it.
Grant/Satler/Malcolm/the kids, never try to control anything. They observe, determine, and report.
When shown what the park is, all of them are astounded, but none of them are on board. They are analyzing, not just the dinosaurs, but also the situation. The raptors they've made are bigger, stronger, smarter and faster than velociraptors actually would be. Grant gets to see this first hand, and respects the creatures for what they are. Satler points out that there are dangerous plants all over where people with little kids will be, that no one on staff seems to know are dangerous. Malcolm repeated warns about the fact that nature does what it wants to do, and that the way the entire project is set up is doomed to fail, they would have to do something radically different to get the desired outcomes.
But none of the businessmen want to hear what they have figured out because it doesn't play into the business illusions of control.
Nedry does what he can to try to get the cash he needs, and while he can control the tech, he can't control the park, the weather, and the animals. So he sabotages the park, only to die at the hands of the very dangerous creatures he didn't know anything about.
Gennaro can't control anything... and gets killed like the little bitch everyone who meets him knows he is.
Muldoon gets killed by the very creatures he thinks he knows so well.
Woo looses his job, because the park goes under (only to be rehired later in another movie).
Hammond looses the park and his dreams.
The investors loose piles and piles of money.
The Lost World, and Jurassic Park 3, and Jurassic World are the same. Just different aspects of control, in different situations.
It's all about greed, control and power. It's not actually about the dinosaurs.
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