Profitable Quotes
263 quotes by 230 authors
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
— J. J. Abrams
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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
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Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
— Arnold Bennett
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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
— Aeschylus
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The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
— Aeschylus
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
— Dick Cavett
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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
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I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes...
— Phil Dusenberry
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War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.
— Smedley Butler
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.
— E L Konigsburg
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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
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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
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[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
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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
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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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