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Definition of Profitable
Profitable

Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession.

Related Definitions:
Advantageous, As, Beneficial, Bringing, Business, Gain, Gainful, Helpful, Lucrative, Or, Profession, Profit, Profitable, Study, Trade, Useful, Yielding


Profitable Quotations

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
Plato

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This land may be profitable to those that will adventure it.
Henry Hudson

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
Stanislaw Lec

Profitable Translations

profitable in German is vorteilhaft, nutzbringend, witschaftlich
profitable in Italian is lucrativo, lucroso
profitable in Latin is facundia, quaestuosus questuosus, lucrosus
profitable in Spanish is aprovechable, fructuoso, ganancioso


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