Profitable Quotes

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Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit, considering… — Erich Fromm
It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls. — John Bunyan
...There's a lot of money in the Western diet. The more you process any food, the more profitable it becomes. The healthcare industry makes more… — Michael Pollan
The Challenge is to pry Bertie loose from Dain and his circle of oafish dengenerates,â€ Jessica said severely. â€œIt would be far more profitable to… — Loretta Chase
It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
And the simple people are trash. A herd of sheep that are good for shearing, but sometimes it's more profitable to slaughter them. — Sergei Lukyanenko
What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable... Factory farms calculate… — Jonathan Safran Foer
... Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale.… — Terry Eagleton
I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political… — Milton Friedman
My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way. — Virginia Woolf
Whatever is goode in its kinde ought to be preserv'd in respect for antiquity, as well as our present advantage, for destruction can be profitable… — Nicholas Hawksmoor
Experts kill me. Economic experts, that is. Corporations, foundations, publications and governments pay them by the bucketful, and they fill buckets with forecasts that change… — Malcolm Forbes
I saw full surely that ere God made us He loved us; which love was never slacked, nor ever shall be. And in this love… — Julian of Norwich
A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. A visionary company doesn't simply balance… — James C. Collins
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social… — Simone de Beauvoir
As a boy I had liked both drawing and physics, and I always abhorred the role of being a spectator. In 1908, when I was… — Raymond Loewy
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. — Maynard James Keenan
One thing we may be sure of, however: For the believer all pain has meaning; all adversity is profitable. There is no question that adversity… — Jerry Bridges
If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice, anger, pride and… — Thomas More
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… — Saint Augustine

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