Top 557 Profitable Quotes & Sayings

No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.

You cannot be a secret and be profitable.

For society, the Internet is wonderful, but for capitalists, it will be a net negative. It will increase efficiency, but lots of things increase efficiency without increasing profits. It is way more likely to make American businesses less profitable than more profitable. This is perfectly obvious, but very little understood.

The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.

I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or it they try, they will shortly be out of office.

The truth we have to face about the world we live in is that it's driven by profit, and contradictions and doubts are not profitable. They yield wisdom, but wisdom is not profitable. I find pleasure in doubt, but let's face it, my pleasure is not very profitable. To me, the truth is that things mean many things at once, and all of them opposed to each other, and all of them true.

Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.

My job was to turn the company around and to give Time Warner a profitable Web business to spin off and a profitable access business that still throws off a tremendous amount of cash. I can check both of those boxes. I am done, and I feel good about what we've accomplished.

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

I admire Arsenal very much, and part of that is that they are profitable.

If it can be profitable to be green, that's just smart business.

If we want, we can be profitable, but we are focusing on growth. We don't comment on profitability, but we do look at it internally. And many of our Ola cities are profitable. But our focus across all cities is growth.

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

Discipline is rarely enjoyable, but almost always profitable.

This land may be profitable to those that will adventure it.

Do what you love, but be damned sure it's profitable. If you do work you love, but it doesn't generate income, your business will fail. If you do work you hate, but it generates income, your health will fail... and your business along with it. If you can't do what you love and make it profitable, you've either got a hobby or a headache, not a sustainable business. Don't settle for anything less than passion and profit.

There is nothing to be embarrassed about being profitable.

Our first fiscal year, we were profitable.

I was happy buying and selling gold in bars, as it is easier and profitable.

The profitable part of the online business is very likely several years away. Entering the business because it's the hot topic of the day doesn't make a profitable business nor satisfied customers. That's why it will be a part of Nintendo's strategy, not the mainstay, as other companies are attempting to do. There still are too many barriers for any company to greatly depend on it.

Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.

The avoidance of loss is the surest way to ensure a profitable outcome.

Targeted marketing delivers a lower customer acquisition cost and gets you to profitable growth faster. The goal is to quickly identify the costs associated with acquiring your most profitable segment of customers and the incremental value - if any - of going beyond your core.

American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

Credit cards have been extremely profitable to banks. They're profitable not from the fees they collect from the retailers that use the credit cards, that pays the bills, but the real profits come from the interest payments and the charges to users that are unexpected.

We will still be enormously profitable and by far the most profitable enterprise software company.

To me no profitable speech sounds ill.

American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up. My idea was: Enjoy baking, sell your bread, people like it, sell more. Keep the bakery going because you're making good food and people are happy.

We need real tax reform which makes the rich and profitable corporations begin to pay their fair share of taxes. We need a tax system which is fair and progressive. Children should not go hungry in this country while profitable corporations and the wealthy avoid their tax responsibilities by stashing their money in the Cayman Islands.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Because software is all about scale. The larger you are, the more profitable you are. If we sell twice as much as software, it doesn't cost us twice as much to build that software. So the more customers you have, the more scale you have. The larger you are, the more profitable you are.

Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit, considering his position and the situation on the personality market. He is alienated from himself, from his fellow men and from nature. His main aim is profitable exchange of his skills, knowledge, and of himself, his "personality package" with others who are equally intent on a fair and profitable exchange. Life has no goal except the one to move, no principle except the one of fair exchange, no satisfaction except the one to consume.p97.

A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?

News may not be very profitable anymore, but it sure is popular.

I built a huge profitable business with no debt.

If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun.

Knopf is solidly profitable, and that is how I intend to keep it.

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

It is more important to do what is strategically right than what is immediately profitable.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

Liverpool will be the most profitable investment I've ever made.

I think, in this country, we have a problem where we view the arts as charity, and therefore, it has no value. Things in America that have value are profitable, and unless you are profitable, we don't know where to put you.

When you're finished, bars are not inherently profitable. You got to work at them to make them profitable.

Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year.

If design isn't profitable, then it's art.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

..Advantage of the Bible is that it is profitable for training in righteous living.

I think Google is the most successful attention merchant - profitable attention merchant in the history of the world, most successful advertising-only based company - most profitable. They started a very idealistic, beautiful company in many ways, but they didn't have a business model.

Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

Knowledge of the investment is most profitable

Whatever is beautiful is also profitable.

Entrepreneurship is the art of finding profitable solutions to problems.

So actually war is politically profitable, financially profitable, morally depraved.

All men, or most men, wish what is noble but choose what is profitable; and while it is noble to render a service not with an eye to receiving one in return, it is profitable to receive one. One ought therefore, if one can, to return the equivalent of services received, and to do so willingly; for one ought not to make a man one's friend if one is unwilling to return his favors.

You must endure what is painful to secure that which is profitable.

All of my businesses are profitable.

A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.