Profitable Quotes

263 quotes by 230 authors

As music became more profitable in the 1990s, it seemed like it attracted a lot of people who were just interested in the financial aspect… — Moby
If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable. — Thomas More
By the time I stepped down as Xerox's CEO in 2009 - and as chairman in January 2010 - Xerox had become the vibrant, profitable… — Anne M. Mulcahy
If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which… — Edward R. Murrow
All businesses require capital, management and labor, and business executives, wanting to grow and maintain profitable enterprises, have a strong incentive to keep costs, including… — Kevin O'Leary
The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying. — David Ogilvy
I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line. — Mario Puzo
I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media industry… — Karl Rove
Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals. — Jonathan Sacks
To Wall Street, a firm like BP isn't just a profitable energy company with lots of assets like oil rigs and pipelines and gas stations… — Matt Taibbi
Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have profitable connections with… — Henry A. Wallace
Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome. — Benjamin Whichcote
In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local police by aggregating… — Evgeny Morozov
In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than… — Al Gore
The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to… — Frank Zappa
If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live… — Robert Bolt
I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting… — Mark Twain
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it… — Warren Buffett
If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is! — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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