Unprofitable Quotes

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Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction… — B. C. Forbes
Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party. — James F. Cooper
In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitable… — Thomas De Witt Talmage
The fact is, ministry is too unpredictable to be motivated by security. Itâ€™s too unprofitable to be motivated by money. Itâ€™s too demanding to be… — Rick Warren
Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the… — Arthur Schopenhauer
We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man… — J. B. Priestley
Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing,… — Edna Ferber
There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is… — Billy Collins
Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable — Leo Burnett
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. — Ursula K. Le Guin
It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online. — Esther Dyson
Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New… — A J Liebling
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! — William Shakespeare
The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people. — Elwyn Brooks White
We are not called upon to enter into controversy with those who hold false theories. Controversy is unprofitable. Christ never entered into it. 'It is… — Ellen G. White
It's a long way from not having enough serotonin to thinking the world is "stale, flat and unprofitable"; even further to writing a play about… — Susanna Kaysen
O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon… — William Shakespeare
When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit. — Brennan Manning
I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things â€“ once commenced â€“ only out of… — A. S. Byatt
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates. — William James

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