Profitable Quotes - Page 7

• 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 to none but such as live by it.

  Nicholas Hawksmoor

  History, Destruction, Advantage

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• My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.

  Virginia Woolf

  Happiness, Mind, Way

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.163, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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 climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or it they try, they will shortly be out of office.

  Milton Friedman

  Believe, Office, People

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• Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale. What used to be apocalyptic fantasy is today no more than sober realism.

  Terry Eagleton

  Mean, Devastation, Today

  "Why Marx Was Right". Book by Terry Eagleton, 2011.

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• 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 how close to death they can keep animals without killing them. That's the business model. How quickly they can be made to grow, how tightly they can be packed, how much or how little can they eat, how sick they can get without dying...We live in a world in which it's conventional to treat an animal like a block of wood.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Block, Animal, Meat Industry

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• Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Political, Religion, Principles

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• 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 German chemical firms after the war ends.

  Henry A. Wallace

  War, Effort, Connections

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• 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 - it's also a corporation that routinely borrows hundreds of millions of dollars to keep its business up and running.

  Matt Taibbi

  Running, Wall, Oil

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• Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

  Edward Gibbon

  Thank You, Wisdom, Gratitude

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.374, e-artnow

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• Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Thinking, Benefits, Pay

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• 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

  Technology, May, Firsts

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• Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.

  Phil Crosby

  Needed, Wanted, Eliminating

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• No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Business, Educational, Needs

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• It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

  Joseph Conrad

  Ironic, Dull, Safe

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.210, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

  Dick Cavett

  Inspirational, Funny, Business

  Playboy Interview. Vol. 18, no. 3, p. 70, March 1971.

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• Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

  Arnold Bennett

  Money, Littles, Amusing

  Arnold Bennett (2012). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine”, p.119, Courier Corporation

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• Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Inspirational, Society, Care

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• The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Hands, Would Be, Privilege

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

  Aeschylus

  Funny, Wise, Stupid

  Aeschylus, David Grene (1959). “Aeschylus”

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

  Aeschylus

  Wise, Men, Knowing

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• Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.

  Seth Godin

  School, Government, People

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• Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.

  Quincy Jones

  Games, Gangsters

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• Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.

  Jonathan Sacks

  People, Envy, Deeds

  "In Tough Times, Seek the Spirit" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2012.

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• 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 themselves or from - they recognize the value of communications and are more ready to put money into a less profitable enterprise, namely the media.

  Karl Rove

  Jobs, Communication, Thinking

  "NewsBusters Interview: Karl Rove Slams Lefty Blogosphere, Talks Media, Praises iPhone". Interview with Matthew Sheffield, www.newsbusters.org. March 21, 2008.

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• I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.

  Mario Puzo

  Men, Fellow Man, Lines

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