Profitable Quotes

263 quotes by 230 authors

I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — J. J. Abrams
The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried… — Mikhail Bakunin
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. — Simone de Beauvoir
Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity. — Arnold Bennett
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. — Aeschylus
The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise. — Aeschylus
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it. — Dick Cavett
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… — Saint Augustine
I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes... — Phil Dusenberry
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. — Smedley Butler
A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss… — William Penn
Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today, and that you… — David Hume
Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with you today, and that you… — David Hume
If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more… — Mark Twain
Often the search proves more profitable than the goal. — E L Konigsburg
An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have… — Thomas Traherne
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is profitable because it… — John Dewey
[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it… — G. H. Hardy
It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on. — Sun Tzu
I would... establish the conviction that Chemistry, as an independent science, offers one of the most powerful means towards the attainment of a higher mental… — Justus von Liebig

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