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• Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.

  Paul Samuelson

  Railroads, Stories, Internet

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• Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about 'hard work' without having a corresponding result to show for it.

  Henry Ford

  Hard Work, Past, Management

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• We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of their initiative, I would answer 'To hell with them.' The top is greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do.

  Michael Foot

  Mean, Helping Others, Common Purpose

  Michael Foot (1984). “Another heart and other pulses: the alternative to the Thatcher society”, HarperCollins

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• Sustainability at Nike means being laser-focused on evolving our business model to deliver profitable growth while leveraging the efficiencies of lean manufacturing, minimizing our environmental impact and using the tools available to us to bring about positive change across our entire supply chain.

  Mark Parker

  Nike, Mean, Impact

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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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• Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had been done in the North, and others felt that freemen who were paid wages would be more efficient than slaves who had no incentive to work. For the present, however, they were stuck with the system they inherited. They felt that a complete and sudden abolition of slavery with no transition period would destroy their economy and leave many of the former slaves to starve - all of which actually happened in due course.

  G. Edward Griffin

  War, Abolition Of Slavery, Southern

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• The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

  Pierre Charron

  Wise, Wisdom, Learning

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• If I never spoke of hell, I should think I had kept back something that was profitable, and should look on myself as an accomplice of the devil.

  J. C. Ryle

  Thinking, Devil, Looks

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• The only purpose of advertising is to make sales. It is profitable or unprofitable according to its actual sales.

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Purpose, Advertising

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Claude C. Hopkins, John E. Kennedy, Albert D. Lasker “Scientific Advertising Origins”, Lulu.com

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• I founded Netflix. I've built it steadily over 12 years now, first with DVD becoming profitable in 2002, a head-to-head ferocious battle with Blockbuster and evolving the company toward streaming.

  Reed Hastings

  Dvds, Years, Battle

  "Reed Hastings Knows He Messed Up". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2011.

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• While it is not always profitable to analogize "fact" to "fiction," La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox demonstrates that there is a substantial difference between holding a piece of cheese in the beak and putting it in the stomach.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Differences, Crow, Fiction

  "Alleghany Corp. v. Breswick & Co., 353 U.S. 151". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 22, 1957.

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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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• 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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• 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, Profitable Business, Models

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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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• 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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• It is more important to do what is strategically right than what is immediately profitable.

  Philip Kotler

  Important

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• Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.

  Rudy Rucker

  Book, Fall, Rude

  Interview with Giulio Prisco, giulioprisco.blogspot.ru. August 27, 2002.

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• Of all the things that your company owns, brands are far and away the most important and the toughest. Founders die. Factories burn down. Machinery wears out. Inventories get depleted. Technology becomes obsolete. Brand loyalty is the only sound foundation on which business leaders can build enduring, profitable growth.

  Jim Mullen

  Loyalty, Technology, Leader

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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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• Every minute that you save by making it useful, more profitable, is so much added to your life and its possibilities. Every minute lost is a neglected by-product - once gone, you will never get it back.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Life, Gone, Losing

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• I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Example, Honorable, Good Examples

  Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815”, p.167, Princeton University Press

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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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• 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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