Profitable Quotes

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.

Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing so I got into songwriting, which is a little more profitable business.

A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.

You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon.

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 profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

Entrepreneurship is the art of finding profitable solutions to problems.

The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when war becomes that profitable, we're going to see more of it.

Sustainability: It's the right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do, it's the profitable thing to do.

In economic terms, health care is a highly successful industry - profitable, growing, and virtually recession-proof - but it's a massive burden on the rest of the economy.

The Ability to influence people without irritating them is the most profitable art known to man.

Whatever is beautiful is also profitable.

We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.

Wait until companies have an initial prototype, have shown that they have the potential to be profitable and have the ability to scale. That's the best time to invest.

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 should aid me tomorrow.

Agencies which frequently work nights and weekends are more stimulating, more successful - and more profitable.

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.

Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.

For peace, with justice and honor, is the fairest and most profitable of possessions, but with disgrace and shameful cowardice, it is the most infamous and harmful of all.

When charity requires it we must freely and mildly communicate to our neighbor not only what is his instruction, but also what is profitable for his consolation.

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable.

The whole key of the profitable everyday living will be to discover out what's one's future to try and do, and after that do it.

A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

To me no profitable speech sounds ill.

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.

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 a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.

Over the long term, it is more profitable to do the right thing for the environment than to pollute it.

Discipline is rarely enjoyable, but almost always profitable.

A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable

It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.

The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.

Wherever your travels may take you, I hope it's profitable.

Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.

In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original.

I can assure you that buying leases for x and selling them for 5x or 10x is a lot more profitable than trying to produce gas at $5 or $6 per million cubic feet.

No enterprise can exist for itself alone.

I deplored a system that made it more profitable not to work than to work. I wanted to help change all that.

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

When you sell options, you get paid for assuming risk. That can be a profitable business, but it does not mix well with the risks inherent in a leveraged portfolio.

Painting several comparative images is a profitable way to begin to understand the concept of content.

A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.

Society has never barred women from bread-winning roles, but only from economic roles that are profitable and respectable.

We were hoping to build a small profitable company; and of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company.

Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak.