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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• No enterprise can exist for itself alone.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Business, Enterprise, Profitable Business

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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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• It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

  Sun Tzu

  Military, War, Evil

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.10, Xist Publishing

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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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• Whatever is beautiful is also profitable.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Beauty, Beautiful

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

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

  Arnold Bennett

  Money, Littles, Amusing

  Arnold Bennett (2012). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine”, p.119, Courier Corporation

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• Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.

  Seth Godin

  School, Government, People

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• Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

  Edward Gibbon

  Thank You, Wisdom, Gratitude

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.374, e-artnow

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• 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

  Thinking, Benefits, Pay

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• It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.

  Esther Dyson

  Technology, May, Firsts

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• Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.

  Phil Crosby

  Needed, Wanted, Eliminating

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

  Aeschylus

  Funny, Wise, Stupid

  Aeschylus, David Grene (1959). “Aeschylus”

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• I think there are a lot of factors going into an election. I think the bottom line is - is that Donald Trump is gonna be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America. And it's not necessarily profitable to sort of try to untangle all the different factors that went into it.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, America, Trying

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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