Profitable Business Quotes

• No enterprise can exist for itself alone.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Business, Enterprise, Profitable

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• 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

  Business, Educational, Needs

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• If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun.

  Robert Townsend

  Fun, Excellence, Excellent

  Robert Townsend (1988). “Further up the organization”, HarperCollins

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• Every time you're exposed to advertising in America you're reminded that this country's most profitable business is still the manufacture, packaging, distribution, and marketing of bullshit. High-quality, grade-A, prime-cut, pure American bullshit.

  George Carlin

  Country, Cutting, America

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• When you sell options, you get paid for assuming risk. That can be a profitable business, but it does not mix well with the risks inherent in a leveraged portfolio.

  George Soros

  Risk, Doe, Investing

  George Soros, Byron Wien, Krisztina Koenen (1995). “Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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• Startups don’t fail because they lack a product; they fail because they lack customers and a profitable business model.

  Steve Blank

  Failing, Models, Customers

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• Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing so I got into songwriting, which is a little more profitable business.

  J.J. Cale

  Player, Guitar, Littles

  "JJ Cale, songwriter behind Cocaine and After Midnight, dies aged 74" by Matt Williams, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2013.

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• Privatisation is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all... it is a mutually profitable business contract between the private company (preferably foreign) and the ruling elite of the Third World

  Arundhati Roy

  Business, Choices, Alternatives

  Arundhati Roy (2001). “Power Politics: The Reincarnation of Rumpelstiltskin”, D C Books

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• While I am a capitalist at heart and I have no problems with commercialization as such, I believe that while it's okay if education becomes a profitable business, it's not okay if it becomes corrupt.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Believe, Heart, Problem

  "Q&A: Chetan Bhagat on His New Book". Interview with Diksha Sahni, blogs.wsj.com. September 19, 2011.

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• I have always been an advocate and was, in my last job at M&S, a supporter of the Al Gore dictum that a sustainable business can be a profitable business. We were the first sizeable company in the UK to prove that was the case.

  Stuart Rose

  Jobs, Als, Lasts

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• It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.

  Thomas Perez

  Loyalty, Mean, Wages

  "America Deserves a Raise" by Thomas E. Perez, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 30, 2014.

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• We believe responsible business can be profitable business

  Stuart Rose

  Business, Believe, Management

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• The profitable part of the online business is very likely several years away. Entering the business because it's the hot topic of the day doesn't make a profitable business nor satisfied customers. That's why it will be a part of Nintendo's strategy, not the mainstay, as other companies are attempting to do. There still are too many barriers for any company to greatly depend on it.

  Satoru Iwata

  Years, Hot, Entering

  "Nintendo Jumps Online". www.ign.com. May 13, 2002.

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