I propose to put forward an apology for mathematics; and I may be told that it needs none, since there are now… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua… — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
We were very focused on becoming profitable from a very early time, which was not true of most companies in the bubble — Marissa Mayer Copy Share Image
When I see people with an interesting gap year, if they can explain it, if they can justify it, if they can… — Jean-Pascal Tricoire Copy Share Image
In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
For society, the Internet is wonderful, but for capitalists, it will be a net negative. It will increase efficiency, but lots of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people… — James Rouse Copy Share Image
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true… — William James Copy Share Image
Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
As music became more profitable in the 1990s, it seemed like it attracted a lot of people who were just interested in… — Moby Copy Share Image
To Wall Street, a firm like BP isn't just a profitable energy company with lots of assets like oil rigs and pipelines… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
We were hoping to build a small profitable company; and of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
I deplored a system that made it more profitable not to work than to work. I wanted to help change all that. — Edward Brooke Copy Share Image
Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable, or pious end at all. It is only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantonness,… — William Prynne Copy Share Image
We will still be enormously profitable and by far the most profitable enterprise software company. — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of factors going into an election. I think the bottom line is - is that Donald… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
By the time I stepped down as Xerox's CEO in 2009 - and as chairman in January 2010 - Xerox had become… — Anne M. Mulcahy Copy Share Image
Experts kill me. Economic experts, that is. Corporations, foundations, publications and governments pay them by the bucketful, and they fill buckets with… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
This whole process of education is to be religious, and not only religious, but Christian. And as Christianity is the only true… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
Large factory trawlers indiscriminately scrape and haul up everything from the ocean floor, along with everyone unfortunate enough to get caught in… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Production for sale in a market in which the object is to realize the maximum profit is the essential feature of a… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
