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• The American business man cannot consider his work done when he views the income balance in black at the end of an accounting period. It is necessary for him to trace the social incidence of the figures that appear in his statement and prove to the general public that his management has not only been profitable in the accounting sense but salutary in terms of popular benefits.

  Colby Mitchell Chester

  Business, Men, Views

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• Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough.

  Norman Granz

  Successful, Japan, People

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• It's easy to scare women. It's even profitable to scare women... But it's not nice, so let's stop it.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Nice, Scare, Easy

  FaceBook post by Ina May Gaskin from May 04, 2014

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• Living with doubt ... is almost always more profitable than living with certainty.
  People don't like doubt, so they pay money and give up opportunities to avoid it.
  Entrepreneurshi p is largely about living with doubt. If you need reassurance, you're giving up quite a bit to get it. On the other hand, if you can get in the habit of seeking out uncertainty, you'll have developed a great instinct.

  Seth Godin

  Giving Up, Opportunity, Hands

  "Living with doubt". sethgodin.typepad.com. December 5, 2010.

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• In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation.

  Desson Thomson

  Hollywood, Flattery, Imitation

  "'101 Dalmatians': A Little Spotty" by Desson Howe, www.washingtonpost.com. November 27, 1996.

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• I think it is not very difficult to discern by the duties and converses of Christians, what frames their spirits are under. Take a Christian in a good frame, and how serious, heavenly, and profitable, will his converses and duties be! what a lovely companion is he during the continuance of it!

  John Flavel

  Christian, Thinking, Lovely

  John Flavel (1799). “Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel”, p.433

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• ...the wise providence of God orders our affairs in many different ways and lovingly bestows on each one of us what is appropriate and profitable both for virtuous deeds and the mysteries of faith.

  Gregory Palamas

  Wise, Christian, Order

  Saint Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin, Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Essex, England) (2009). “The homilies”, Mount Thabor Pub

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• Intelligent men have no need to listen to much talk, but should attend only to that which is profitable and guided by God's will.

  Anthony the Great

  Christian, Intelligent, Men

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• In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.

  Lionel Blue

  Christian, Jesus, Thinking

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• A business owner is the boss, but it's a job, a place that is stable and profitable. An entrepreneur is an artist of sorts, throwing his/herself into impossible situations and seeking out problems that require heart and guts to solve. Both are fine, but choose.

  Seth Godin

  Jobs, Heart, Artist

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• In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable.

  Seth Godin

  Running, Long, Important

  "Thinking about money". sethgodin.typepad.com. June 30, 2013.

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• Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable.

  Tony Visconti

  Responsibility, Giving, Culture

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• For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress.

  John Calvin

  School, Blessing, Way

  John Calvin “Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion”, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.

  George Washington

  Morning, Healthy, May

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.28, Rowman & Littlefield

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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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• Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is. We lose our health -- and create profitable diseases and dependencies -- by failing to see the direct connections between living and eating, eating and working, working and loving.

  Wendell Berry

  Broken, Ordinary, Connections

  "The Art of the Commonplace". Book by Wendell Berry, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2002.

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• Discipline is rarely enjoyable, but almost always profitable.

  Darrin Patrick

  Discipline, Enjoyable

  Darrin Patrick (2014). “The Dude's Guide to Manhood: Finding True Manliness in a World of Counterfeits”, p.30, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.

  Robert Grosseteste

  House, Faithful, Watches

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• ..Advantage of the Bible is that it is profitable for training in righteous living.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Righteous Living, Training, Study

  Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2007). “Living By the Book: The Art and Science of Reading the Bible”, p.17, Moody Publishers

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• I became a vegetarian in 1958 and it was very difficult in those days to really maintain that because there weren't many options... alternatives. But, now, it's a growing trend because... the economics are there. See, there's simply enough people demanding it that it's profitable to supply vegetarians with those products.

  Dennis Weaver

  People, Alternatives, Growing

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• Revolution is profitable. So the capitalists sell it... The hip capitalists have some allies within the revolutionary community: longhairs who work as intermediaries between the kids on the street and the millionaire businessmen.

  Jerry Rubin

  Kids, Community, Hips

  Jerry Rubin (1970). “Do it; scenarios of the revolution”, Touchstone

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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, Profitable Business, Models

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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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• 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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• Entrepreneurship is the art of finding profitable solutions to problems.

  Brian Tracy

  Art, Problem, Entrepreneurship

  Brian Tracy (2004). “Getting Rich Your Own Way: Achieve All Your Financial Goals Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible”, p.101, John Wiley & Sons

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