Profitable Quotes

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

Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self respect, to hate any person, to curse, to act the hypocrite.

What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.

No form of human exchange is more profitable than the exchange of ideas. If I give you a thought in return for one of your thoughts, each of us will have gained a 100 percent dividend.

It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one.

Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.

Some persons are so inclined to mortify themselves that at every opportunity they have, they do so. What a beautiful practice this is, and how profitable!

Let no Body be afrighted, because so many things are to be learnt, when the learning of them will be so pleasant; how profitable I need not tell you.

What if compassion is also profitable? What if compassion is also good for business?

The current financial crisis calls out for new products and services as well as more, not less, information about what is safe and profitable in the future environment.

Jazz isn't as profitable for labels like Hip hop or Rap. Jazz needs subsidies to continue, just like European classical works of Bach and Beethoven are subsidized.

It'd be nice if Asian actors could be perceived as profitable, which is the bottom line. We're perceived as not mattering much fiscally.

It's much more profitable to sell investing advice than to follow it.

Novell has the necessary resources to be a much more profitable enterprise but it currently lacks the vision, strategy and execution to produce respectable returns.

For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.

What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!

In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable.

There is nothing to be embarrassed about being profitable.

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

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

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

There are two key lessons: a) The only way to survive in business is to be profitable, unless you have an unlimited amount of money; b) Get through your difficulty and learn to do better next time.

And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?

One might have thought that the Cold War's conclusion would have convinced the Left that appeasement of dictators is not profitable.

Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding themselves.

Companies that model best practices, that model the most upstanding principles, end up as the most profitable. It's not a trade of profits versus principles.

Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.

I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in that for which they have exalted themselves.

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

Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.

If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.

Knowledge of the investment is most profitable

People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.

While I am a capitalist at heart and I have no problems with commercialization as such, I believe that while it's okay if education becomes a profitable business, it's not okay if it becomes corrupt.

Anyone who says network news cannot be profitable doesn't know what he is talking about. But anyone who says it must "always," make money is misguided and irresponsible.

I think regular Iowans are cynical of this whole idea of corporate welfare, with the biggest awards going to the most profitable companies. It doesn't make sense.

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

Are you helping people? Are they happy? Are you happy? Are you profitable? Isn't that enough?

In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation.

Such, indeed, is the policy of civil war: severely to remember injuries, and to forget the most important services. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.

To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy.

I have not read far in the statutes of this Commonwealth. It is not profitable reading. They do not always say what is true; and they do not always mean what they say.

Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about 'hard work' without having a corresponding result to show for it.

Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in the entire economy [the oil industry], that they are being watched.

I'm going to use the White House and every tool at my disposal as your president to make the case that patriotism is profitable.

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