#profitable

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

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Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#gratitude #profitable #revenge

I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores vibrant and profitable. ↗

— John Green

#bookstores #crazy #i #i think #independent

With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing. ↗

— Toshihiko Fukui

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

— Jackie Mason

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To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it. ↗

— Irene Peter

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

— Quincy Jones

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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

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

— Arnold Bennett

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There is nothing to be embarrassed about being profitable. ↗

— Terry Semel

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