#profitable

It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion. ↗

— Evan Davis

#banks #borrow #borrowing #capital #cushion

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

#better #costco #health #health benefits #i

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable. ↗

— Leo Burnett

#dishonesty #issue #moral #moral issue #proved

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

— Dick Cavett

#crap #dispense #financially #long #people

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

#ceases #enterprise #exist #failing #great

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. ↗

— Jim Courier

#changes #cup #davis #davis cup #four

What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history. ↗

— Barney Frank

#american #american history #because #could #encouragement

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

— Auberon Herbert

#material #offers #only #owner #profitable

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. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

#christ #color #coming #considerable #considerable number

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#defeating #leads #legislation #party #purpose