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

It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.
Auberon Herbert

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

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

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

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

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
Stanislaw Lec

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

Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere.
Brit Hume

Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.
Adam Weishaupt

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.
Kevin Kelly

Our communications services revenue growth is being driven by continued strong top-line performance in data, Internet and international - three of the fastest growing and most profitable areas within communications services.
Bernard Ebbers

Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.
James Rouse

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
Edward Gibbon

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
Simone de Beauvoir

Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.
Trey Parker

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.
Paul Samuelson

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.
Pierre Charron

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

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