Profitable Quotes

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

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.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

Friends, I'm angry about what's happening in politics today! Why is it wrong to ask the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations to pay their fair share?

The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.

If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.

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

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

There is nothing to be embarrassed about being profitable.

In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.

American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

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.

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.

It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.

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

We ask from the heart that supermarkets, which are now more profitable and selling more, help us to take care of the pocketbook of the people by not raising prices.

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.

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

It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.

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.

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.

So actually war is politically profitable, financially profitable, morally depraved.

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.

I think there's no reason the Davis Cup couldn't be as powerful and popular and profitable as any of the four majors are today, given some changes.

USDA is committed to keeping pace with the needs and progress of American agriculture by supporting new markets and movements that will keep farmers profitable and help create middle class jobs across the country.

Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough.

Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year.

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

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