Profitable Quotes
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Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
Simone de Beauvoir -
All of my businesses are profitable.
Nathan Kirsh
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Discipline is rarely enjoyable, but almost always profitable.
Darrin Patrick -
It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
Nikolai Gogol -
Data is just like crude. It’s valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used. It has to be changed into gas, plastic, chemicals, etc to create a valuable entity that drives profitable activity; so must data be broken down, analyzed for it to have value.
Michael Palmer -
There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.
George Bernard Shaw -
To me no profitable speech sounds ill.
Sophocles -
The only purpose of advertising is to make sales. It is profitable or unprofitable according to its actual sales.
Claude C. Hopkins
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The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable.
Confucius -
Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
Plato -
Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.
George Washington -
We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.
Bernard of Clairvaux -
A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other.
Maureen Dowd -
If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
Thomas More
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Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable, or pious end at all. It is only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantonness, incontinency, pride, profaneness, or madness of man's depraved nature.
William Prynne -
I think this land may bee profitable to those that will adventure it.
Henry Hudson -
Intelligent men have no need to listen to much talk, but should attend only to that which is profitable and guided by God's will.
Anthony the Great -
No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.
Seneca the Younger -
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 15, I designed, built and flew a toy model airplane which won the then-famous James Gordon Bennett Cup. By 16 I had discovered that design could be fun and profitable, and this lesson has never been lost on me.
Raymond Loewy -
What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.
Susan George