Profitable Quotes

• You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Motivational, Success

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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• Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Business, War

  "The Three Essential Warren Buffett Quotes To Live By" by James Berman, www.forbes.com. April 20, 2014.

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• I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

  Warren Buffett

  Money, Years, Greatest Wealth

  "The Big Lie Exposed: The Future is Not Predictable" by Jeff Schweitzer, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2009.

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• The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

  Warren Buffett

  War, Past, Investing Money

  "The Security I Like Best". Warren Buffett, The Commercial and Financial Chronicle (December 6, 1951), as quoted in "5 Tips From Warren Buffett Every Investor Should Take to Heart" by Stacy Rapacon, grow.acorns.com. August 24, 2017.

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• I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

  Warren Buffett

  War, Thinking, Insightful

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• When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

  Warren Buffett

  Ignorance, Investing Money, Interesting

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• Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Broken Heart, Faith

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.172, John Wiley & Sons

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• Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

  Warren Buffett

  Wall, Investing Money, People

  "Student to CEO" by Simon Dixon. Ecademy Press, p. 125, 2011.

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• Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

  Warren Buffett

  Funny, Success, Money

  "Rules That Warren Buffett Lives By". Yahoo Finance, February 23, 2010.

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• Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investing Money, Investment Success

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.118, John Wiley & Sons

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• No enterprise can exist for itself alone.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Business, Enterprise, Profitable Business

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• There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.

  Lewis Hine

  Children, Work, Society

  Lewis Wickes Hine, John R. Kemp (1986). “Lewis Hine: photographs of child labor in the new South”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

  J. J. Abrams

  Needs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It looks now as if everything has been profitable to me. And if the payment has sometimes been excessive, it was afer all the payment, for life, and there cannot be and is no excessive payment for life.

  Nina Berberova

  Looks, Sometimes, Payment

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• You cannot be a secret and be profitable.

  Suzanne Evans

  Secret

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• Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.

  Ralph Allen

  Stars, Occupation, Shooting

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• In sectors like energy, I haven't been arguing for more spending per se; I've been arguing that it doesn't make sense for us to spend $4 billion subsidizing an oil industry that's mature and very profitable. We should be using that money to finance clean energy of the future.

  Barack Obama

  Oil, Politics, Energy

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• Such, indeed, is the policy of civil war: severely to remember injuries, and to forget the most important services. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

  Edward Gibbon

  Gratitude, Revenge, War

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.19

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• Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.

  Toni Morrison

  Racism, People, Gone

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Companies that model best practices, that model the most upstanding principles, end up as the most profitable. It's not a trade of profits versus principles.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Best Practices, Principles, Ends

  "Philip Zimbardo on the Two Types of Heroes". bigthink.com.

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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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• Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there's a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable.

  Gabe Newell

  Art, Games, Design

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Legal business has, from the beginning of time, been profitable - to those who have conducted it; because it is concerned with things that touch men's passions very deeply, and because men are willing to pay, and pay highly, for wisdom and skill in the conduct of it. The real merits of the Norman lawyers were, not altruism, but ability, energy, and enthusiasm for their work.

  Edward Jenks

  Real, Passion, Men

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• Whatever is beautiful is also profitable.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Beauty, Beautiful

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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