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Exiting the unprofitable automotive fabrics business is a difficult decision, but ... it is a necessary action for the sake of the enterprise.

Frank Macher

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Red Auerbach

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

Anne Baxter

I can't figure out why people want to own unprofitable companies with no prospect of making money in the near future. That's just trading paper.

Kent Mergler

To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.

Irene Peter

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

Walter Lippmann

There was nothing in the business model that made MBS unprofitable, it was just Microsoft didn't need the profits from MBS so they made the decision to spend more than what they were taking in on the business. MBS has been making steady progress. They had a hiccup last year where revenue's were disappointing. Clearly, growing faster than the market is always a good thing.

Jim Shepherd

Carly was trying to drive revenue growth, and she was bleeding the printer business by using the higher profits in that business to fund unprofitable growth everywhere else. (Hurd) has dialed back the sales growth objectives and focused those units on operating more efficiently.

Tony Ursillo

RANSOM, n. The purchase of that which neither belongs to the seller, nor can belong to the buyer. The most unprofitable of investments.

Ambrose Bierce

We were hoping to build a small, profitable company. And of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company.

Jeff Bezos

Catfish started to grow, because row cropping became so unprofitable, and a lot of farmers quit row cropping and started catfish farming.

Jamey Clary

The real strength in the market in 2003 was from small-cap and mostly busted companies. It was a huge sigh of relief that many unprofitable companies did not go out of business.

Kent Mergler