It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Aeschylus
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If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?
Robert Townsend
Getting new products out early is a big factor in being profitable and winning in this industry.
Hideaki Kurimoto
It's been better than we expected. We're profitable after only two months.
Jeff Wright
It's a lot of competition in a relatively small market, and it's unclear how profitable it's going to be.
Rod Bourgeois
The airline business is not a very profitable one because the capital cost needed is huge.
Gao Hongfeng
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
Don Marquis
Exchanges generally have proven to be much more profitable than initially thought. They have monopolistic characteristics, which means there are very high barriers to entry, and that's a businessman's dream.
Tina Larsson
That is a big blow, it was one of their flagship businesses that was quite profitable.
Robert Willens
We don't think it's a lost cause. It's the most profitable industry in the world.
John Harmer
The higher prices of Dram chips and the more profitable Nand flash memory products will help the company to record profit this year.
Richard Chang
He (Pastrana) is the one who must decide if the dialogue is to continue and if it's profitable for him politically.
Raul Reyes
Starting from the first quarter we expect to be profitable.
Li Dongsheng
It's a pretty major recommendation. If the commission can push it through, it will have a major impact as roaming is a hugely profitable business. It's pretty bad news for the network operators.
Phil Kendall
Our fear is that the savings will be on the back of poor people rather than highly profitable pharmaceutical companies and highly profitable abusive providers.
Kathleen Stoll
We remain confident that our continued strategic focus on profitable branded growth will positively impact fiscal 2007 and beyond.
Bruce Wood
Honda has the right models with the right timing in its most profitable market. Its redesigned Civic is doing well in the U.S. and it just released the Fit compact car.
Norihito Kanai
We were profitable from the third year.
Nelson Gonzalez
The combination of stronger-than-expected consumer interest, a more profitable sales mix and tight controls on spending drove our earnings well-above expectations.
Richard Schulze
It's very profitable, that's why they're doing it.
Aaron Reyes
We already receive oil from Venezuela, which has been very profitable, though that's a country that the United States also hasn't been getting along with.
Ruben Bonilla
Food manufacturers will capitalize on fads as long as they're around and its profitable for them. When it's over, it's on to the next thing.
Burt Flickinger
There's so much investment capital out there for profitable new technologies. Investors are constantly looking for good ideas to invest in. If these ideas are as good as these companies say, they should have no problem, at minimum, finding a loan.
Brian M. Riedl
Accelerating the growth in life sciences is key to our strategy to becoming a faster-growing, more profitable, less cyclical company.
Charles O. Holliday
We stayed pretty steady. We were very profitable.
Bonnie Sprague
Foreign investors have more lucrative investment sectors to put their money into, but the futures market is clearly not a sound option for them now as it is not profitable industry for the time being.
Chen Xiaodi
Logistics weren't what they needed to be for distribution to be profitable. It was just too far to go, actually.
Brandon Wilson
Locally, the big fish eat the little fish, and then you have these huge whales out there. If the new bank is profitable, chances are it's being looked at.
Scott Alaniz
It's frustrating in the sense that we look dumber than we really are, ... We own a lot of unpopular but profitable stocks.
Donald Yacktman
While we were profitable this quarter, we still have improvements to make in our business which will lead to cost reductions.
Jack Messman
Once the dust settles, these companies become much more growth oriented, ... They in fact become healthier, more profitable, they have larger market capitalizations, which enable them to go out, buy other businesses which provide high returns and enable them to maintain a high- return profile.
James Mcdermott
I'm not sure competition from any company is Intel's biggest problem. A bigger problem is generating demand for its faster, more profitable desktop chips.
Keith Diefendorff
Iraq has been a very major market for AWB, and a profitable market. AWB will now have to find alternative markets for its grain.
Grant Saligari
AIG has achieved profitable results even as it sustained losses...in the most costly quarter for catastrophes ever recorded.
Martin Sullivan
Everyone recognizes direct and build-to-order is a more profitable business method as opposed to stocking your shelves and hoping the product moves off of them, but I don't believe that retail is going away either.
Scot Ciccarelli
This will mean an improved focus on the customers for our core products, profitable growth and a stronger company that will deliver greater value for our shareholders and a more secure future for our employees.
Richard Olson
This is a strong start to the year. We remain confident in our ability to continue delivering profitable growth.
Tim Breedon
We expect our U.S. Books, Music and DVD/Video segment to be profitable on a pro forma operating basis for the full year 2000.
Warren Jenson
It's exciting for Charlottesville because it's a huge economic opportunity for the city. We're going to have thousands of people flocking from around the country. It's going to be a zoo, but a very profitable zoo.
Waldo Jaquith
We have had a very good relationship with Reynolds and we know we can make Reynolds profitable.
Michael Lynch
We are certainly much smaller than the mother ship, but we are doubling in size every year and are profitable.
Dave Girouard
Those are two very solid indications that freshness as a concept for wine is a marketable, and a pretty profitable, thing to hang your hat on.
John Gillespie
It really is very profitable for them. They have the concession stands that are open; we get none of the money from the concessions. Every article of Sun Bowl clothing they sell they make $5.
Don Mulligan
The Republican Party believes that people shouldn't leave their moral and spiritual beliefs at the door of the polling place. We're just appealing to one of our constituencies, just as the Democrat Party does. ... The Democrats may feel it's more profitable to go and do voter registration drives at a homosexual convention. We feel more comfortable going to churches.
Bill Peaslee
We need to sell 10 books a day from every machine to make them profitable. Vending machines aren't going to outshine traditional bookshops.
Xavier Chambon
Despite our best efforts, we just haven't been able to attract the number of customers we need to be profitable. We don't have a large enough presence in many of these Northern California communities.
Terry O'neil
The fourth quarter is the peak season for PC sales, which should help AU stay profitable.
Simon Chao
It's profitable in the sense that it's growing the boat business.
Irwin Jacobs
Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone
If I had just done Dayton and (Butler and Warren) counties, we would be profitable by now.
Tom Peebles
It's a challenging environment, very competitive low barriers to entry. For them to get the first one successful or profitable in six months is certainly a commendable feat.
Patrick Schumann
We'd have to analyze that. It would be very challenging to us financially. If you gross $1.5 million to $2 million in ticket sales (annually), expenses could be darn close to that. That wouldn't be profitable.
Jill Mesaros
It's an extremely profitable business model. They have carved out a very good niche, being among the first to identify infrastructure investments such as toll roads.
Paul Xiradis
We see a need, looking to the future to target a broader spectrum of opportunity than just life insurance - important and profitable though we expect that sector to be for us.
Mark Tucker
Those plants have gotten to be very profitable, and, indeed, if you're going to buy them back, you probably would need to pay a premium.
Charles Gray
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whether or not it could be profitable is hard to say.
Phil Baggaley
Unfortunately for IBM, it's really lost the leadership at the high-end of the mainframe business to Hitachi, ... (Hitachi) has a machine known as Skyline, which has been capturing in large doses IBM's biggest and most profitable customers around the world.
Stephen Smith
Given the momentum and the attributes that satellite radio has, it's not going to be easy to encroach on XM or Sirius and still be profitable.
Steve Mather
You're hoping to attract some non-race fans. Casual fans are not into it yet. They think the race season runs from Memorial Day through Labor Day. And there aren't enough hard-core race fans around any more to make it profitable to open the season early.
Larry Mattingly
They have very strong balance sheets, unlike the airline industry, and were all profitable heading into the event.
Thomas Underwood
As an investing company, you have a lot of latitude in ways to make money, but Sears is an operating company. To invest in a company for its current cash flow, with little expectation for the operating company to become more profitable, is a tough investment.
Brian Hamilton
BA is a profitable company not one in crisis. It must be remembered that pensions are deferred earnings.
Brendan Gold
I wanted to keep the golf dome open because of the demand from the public for a place to golf in the winter. And we were profitable in the first month (December). But we just don't have enough employees to run another entity.
Chris Peterson
The firm is well on its way to having its most profitable year ever, a clear indication that our strategy of expanding key business franchises and broadening our international presence has been successful.
Richard Fuld
Although there were some very serious arguments during the talks ... still we agreed that these working-level talks were profitable, and we decided that we will arrange more talks in the future.
Akitaka Saiki
It has gone after a more profitable market and this deal justifies that decision.
Ross Miller
Many exploration projects require a gold price of $350 or higher to be profitable, and I believe that larger companies will look to grow through acquisitions of other smaller companies which are making money, have mines, and ongoing projects. The trend will continue.
Amaury De Barros Conti
We are satisfied with the results of the negotiations ... We have reached agreement on a mutually profitable and mutually acceptable basis.
Alexei Miller
You are talking about a company that is marginally profitable.
Sal Morreale
We're not nearly concerned about size as we are about being profitable. We have to go foxhole by foxhole, looking at the way we do business and making changes as we think are required. We're not done with that process. It'll continue on forever.
John Denison
We've turned the corner. ... It will be a very, very profitable business in the next few years.
Mark Blackwell
It is not profitable. About 98 per cent farmers will be indebted. Only 2 per cent will be debt free. Some may hide it.
Daljit Singh
When you put these services out on the Web, you can also employ new rules that allow for better data gathering, and better data often equates to profitable business being written because the requirements are clear and the processes are defined.
Cynthia Saccocia
It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
Jackie Mason
They have decided to make their business profitable rather than being a cost to the company. The idea is to change the mentality of the mechanic group to become a revenue generating business unit.
Athar Khan
Our big initiative was to grow more profitable square footage. We want to make more room for faster-growth products.
Wendy Dominguez
Our strategy consistently has been to focus on profitable growth, not growth at any cost.
Charles Lee
We recently turned in our first profitable quarter.
Keerti Melkote
I would be disingenuous if I said I wasn't concerned, ... I think the capacity additions I've read about may not necessarily prove profitable for those that are entering those markets.
Gerard Arpey
Things are very profitable at IBM. There aren't too many companies of that size that are earning over 7 percent return on their assets.
Marc Heilweil
It's a lot more than selling meat and being profitable. It's about changing the world.
Doc Hatfield
The casino business is profitable.
Andy Jones
But at the same time, they are very powerful and extremely profitable, because they produce these great pills. It is the second most profitable industry in the world. Just arms manufacturers -- who only kill people -- ironically are the only industry more profitable than drugs.
Fernando Meirelles
You look at the auto market and you've got to do something to stay profitable. I think what they're doing is a good thing.
Joe Beyrle
It's important to have documentation that it is going to be a profitable business.
Nancy Bell
None of them are making money. Investors believe it is going to be difficult to make [the economic model] profitable.
Mark Rowen
Porsche told us that they were going to invest back into the company rather than pay higher dividends. Now they're investing in one of the least profitable car companies in Europe.
Arndt Ellinghorst
We love commercial fleet sales (to corporations). They're profitable, and we're not looking to decrease those.
Deborah Silverman
The company is facing a delicate balance between capturing the revenue growth in these emerging markets and keeping it up on the bottom line. The market share gains were significant in the growth areas, but that's less profitable growth.
John Slack
You can get a company to revenues in your lifetime. And you can get a company to profitable revenues on $20 million to $30 million in capital, not $100 million.
Gerry Langeler
If we continue the way we are now, we expect to be profitable in September or October.
Adam Steadman
This company has been profitable since day one and this quarter has gone according to plan.
Carlos Rivera
We look to close out 2005 with a profitable fourth quarter.
Joseph Mcgrath
He wants it to be profitable growth, sustainable growth and responsible growth.
Wayne Pace
[Given the positive performance of its] Star Wars ... be a profitable line for us this year.
David Hargreaves
In the distribution of the browser is where we can be profitable. We want our users to trust us to not be intrusive (when they browse the Web), so they can do what they want to do online.
Bart Decrem
Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
Benjamin Whichcote
There is increased competition as carriers all vie for renewals in this profitable market. The natural market reaction is to drive down prices.
Karen Beier
We are already profitable.
Chris Hughes
We turned the corner during 2003 and were profitable in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004. In the fiscal year ending June 30, 2005 we chose to invest in marketing and broke even.
Gretchen Shugart
It's a growth company, it's a profitable company, the kids who founded it have done extremely well. But it's starting to get very lofty.
Neil Hennessy
BA is strategically focusing on profitable traffic, and that means it's turning away a lot of people who are prepared to pay a decent fare to transfer.
Chris Avery
This will either be our most profitable or our second-most profitable year in the company's history.
Joel Rassman
Poker operators are having to attract casual players who are not as profitable as the hard core and that is changing the economics of the business.
Robin Chhabra
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
Finley Peter Dunne
When the [profitable] numbers first came out I think we were all scratching our heads, saying, 'no way.'
Andrea Williams
They found out it was more profitable than selling drugs -- and a lot less dangerous too.
Lt. David Pierson
Mannequin Madness did a very good job of convincing our judges not only of the clarity of her business vision, but of how technology was poised to help her expand her operations and become more profitable.
Andrea Peiro
If they do everything they announced today, they are on a sound basis to be solidly profitable by 2009.
Ferdinand Dudenhöffer
These emission credits with regard to Nevada Power belong to our customers. It would not be profitable to our shareholders. There would be no appetite (at Nevada Power to give the revenue to the tribes).
Roberto Denis
Scott's been out there from the get-go on how to make the online space profitable.
Mark Logan
The board of directors unanimously concluded that America West's shareholders, employees and the communities we operate in will be better served by a growing, profitable and independent company.
William Franke
This may be the most profitable private equity deal of all time.
David Rubenstein
We feel like being the biggest company is not nearly as important to us as being one of the most profitable and efficiently managed companies in the world.
Russ Roberts
EarthLink, once again, achieved strong financial results with one of our most profitable quarters on record.
Garry Betty
They are all proven players, and they are all profitable now.
Ulric Weil
We were hoping to build a small, profitable company. And of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company.
Jeff Bezos
The cardiac rhythm management business is large -- $10 billion, highly profitable and it's an oligopoly.
Keay Nakae
What is exciting, is for the first time we are starting to see leverage in their operating models so they should remain profitable.
Andrea Williams
The sale of the desktop PC in itself is really not a profitable business model. It certainly was 15 to 20 years ago when the prices were 10 times what they are now and the margins higher than that.
Peter Sutherland
Prior to this they didn't have much flexibility; they were shutting down high cost assets, but didn't have the financial flexibility to do profitable projects like reducing energy costs.
Stephen Atkinson
You have to ask yourself, if you sever the profitable part of a company from the part of the company that's less profitable, what do you have left? To me, this is an area that still has to develop, and I don't necessarily know if I would go forward with that.
Russ Koesterich
They still haven't developed their skills to the extent that they are substantially more profitable than their competitors, ... If they develop the skills and manage their claims better, they can go to the big insurers and demonstrate that they (Midland) should write the business, not them.
Paul Newsome
We still have Jet Blue and the mayor is in conversation with other airlines on a monthly basis to try and get them to look at Syracuse as a very profitable location to come to.
Anthony Mancuso
Which makes this picture for Universal and for Working Title a hugely profitable endeavor.
Nikki Rocco
Any business they do on the Internet is going to be very profitable for them. They have the infrastructure. They don't have to create it. And additionally, the profit margins on their bras and underwear and lingerie are spectacular, while the other e-commerce companies have very narrow margins.
Steve Kernkraut
The rapid restructuring of Yves Saint Laurent has laid the foundation for profitable future growth.
Domenico De Sole
The company has begun to deliver profitable year-over-year growth in our analog, mixed-signal and embedded products. We achieved 18 percent year-over-year growth in these product categories, we have a strong cash position, and the underlying fundamentals of the business are strong.
David D. French
The biggest question I have is, is it (the airline) making any money. They really need to find some level at which point they're profitable and I don't think that's been found yet. I think they might have to cut out more and more of their domestic network.
Roger King
Yahoo! in our opinion is the hands-down leader in the Internet portal space. It is well run, extremely profitable and its awesome business model stands head and shoulders above most Internet companies.
Mark Rowen
We also generated significant positive cash flow, which we will leverage to fuel the profitable growth of our business going forward.
Joan Hooper
Despite the increase in recruitment costs arising from the acceleration in our MVNO business to drive future profitable growth, we anticipate a full year result at the top end of current market expectations.
Charles Dunstone
The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far easier (and nearly always more profitable) to become a real estate agent.
Maria Lenhart
Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.
Paul A. Samuelson
It is a good business to be in. But it's not as profitable per acre as it was in 1980s and 1990s.
Jamey Clary
Working people know that if a company as profitable as Boeing can skimp on retirement and health care, everyone's future is at risk.
Anna Burger
We believe this represents a fundamental shift for the company and, at a minimum, indicates management is serious about considering all options for profitable growth.
Daniel Renouard
The good news is the mix of merchandise continues to shift to more profitable product, and what we're realizing is richer gross margins.
Richard Schulze
We'll be profitable in the third quarter. There's no question about that.
Clive Beddoe
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
Stanislaw J. Lec
This change-or-die mentality is a very good one, in my opinion. I like the urgency. It's something we've been dealing with for a while. As a dealer now, I think the lessons we have learned is our parent company has to be healthy and profitable.
Jerry Reynolds
We ask from the heart that supermarkets, which are now more profitable and selling more, help us to take care of the pocketbook of the people by not raising prices.
Nestor Kirchner
You would think that video will be as profitable as text. There's a lot more content, be it from an entertainment perspective or research perspective.
Gary Price
These actions send a clear signal that we are not content to simply wait for the economy to improve in order to make our businesses more profitable.
Robert Lane
... need pay little attention to the oil and gas sector because we're highly profitable, can fend for ourselves, and have managed to reliably supply consumers for a long time.
Red Cavaney
We've never discussed the costs of the movie, ... but if it went out and did $75-80 million, it would be a profitable movie for us.
Jeffrey Katzenberg
I think it's stupid that this type of policy is legal and profitable.
Dan Ravicher
People are positioning themselves ahead of the planting intentions. It's going to be a bullish number, ... Growing maize wasn't profitable, farmers have switched.
Andrew Fletcher
(Producer) Michael Bay has done something that is rarely if ever done and that is remake a classic and turn the remake into a classic. We have a shot to get into the $80 millions. It cost $9.5 million to make. I imagine this will be the (year's) most profitable movie vis-a-vis what it cost to make.
David Tuckerman
They were profitable last year but are losing money again. But this could be due to development and build-outs.
Mike Falbo
The industry is suffering and the closing of major automobile plants are forcing fierce competition in the marketplace. Dealerships must be able to rely on a system that is cost effective and as efficient as possible to help them remain profitable.
Mike Esposito
Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.
James Rouse
This is presumably just the beginning. It's very profitable for companies to buy other companies.
Franz Wenzel
Merrill Lynch is still quite profitable in a very tough year.
Mark Constant
Fertilizer costs are up big-time, and fuel costs went from $13,000 to $19,000 (for an average farm), and that's a huge increase. The concern is, what happens if we don't get that bumper crop next year? It's not likely that livestock is going to continue to be as profitable as it was last year.
Dale Nordquist
They've created a complicated scheme of making sure a lot of different profitable energy industries are going to make off like bandits, ... pad their bottom line, but it doesn't really create new behavior in the energy industry.
Keith Ashdown
The action is increasingly in the low end, and that's not profitable for any of the companies. It's not a goal worth aspiring to, it's what the market demands.
Thomas Kurlak
Our beverages operations are now clearly focused in profitable markets of North America, Continental Europe and Australia.
John Sunderland
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
Dick Cavett
This study is important to help investors, managers, and policy-makers to understand the crucial question the extent to which environmentally-friendly technologies and products are profitable.
David Levine
You can be profitable if you have that revolving door, that rehab patient that comes in and out. That's our goal.
Jerry Wood
HBO is, and will continue to be, the most profitable network in the world.
Chris Albrecht
There is nothing to be embarrassed about being profitable.
Terry Semel
I've been in business 26, 27 years. I understand how to manage a business and keep it profitable. You have to believe in your business, you have to believe in your county.
Dr. Jonathan Greenberg
Achieve future sustained savings and profitable growth.
Alain Belda
In the second half of 1998, we showed that the firm could be profitable in difficult market conditions, ... In the second quarter just ended, we demonstrated Lehman Brothers can be among the top performers in the industry in good market conditions.
Richard Fuld
We will operate a profitable network of over 40 routes, with a priority to strategic routes.
Neil Burrows
[But many of its offices - in Jakarta, Stockholm, Melbourne, St. Petersburg, Brussels, Bangkok, Sydney and dozens of other cities - were not particularly profitable. Some lost money.] It's very hard to run an organization if you have too many satellite offices, ... We had a lot of profitable ones, but it didn't add up to a good total.
Frederic Coudert
The category is growing. It represents a large and profitable business opportunity.
Geoff Ross
It's a delicate balance. A lot of the growth is coming out of emerging markets but ... that's less profitable growth.
John Slack
For every one profitable trading system that is 'discovered' through back testing and optimization, there are nine others that lose money.
Matthew Klein
We're always looking for new ways to bring customers in. We really don't know until we get into it how profitable it will be.
Julie Sanders
This is going to be a profitable transaction, ... This one we could afford on a modest budget.
Robert Wright
It can be quite profitable. It all depends on how much you own, how much rent you charge and where it's located.
Cindy Frailing
It's not profitable, so there's a little bit of concern, but it's still an energy deal.
Kyle Huske
Option money, the cost of being at what could be a very profitable table.
Hugh Young
Certainly, the numbers show that our U.S. operations are not profitable at current volume levels and, given our contractual expenses, we are not profitable in our current state.
Claudia Piccinin
If fuel hadn't gone up, we'd be talking about how profitable these legacy carriers are.
Michael Boyd
We're still planning on growing on the commercial business. Commercial business can be very profitable.
Paul Ballew
I don't think it matters necessarily. What matters is the execution of our strategy (of pursuing) profitable growth.
Joe Eberhardt
Gay people are now living more honest and open lives and that leads to others wanting to know more about our lives. People want this product and we can provide it in a compelling and powerful way that can be profitable.
Neil Giuliano
We believe that Sun clearly should be more profitable than it is. However, the mix shift to lower-end products and the continued pace of heavy investments may continue to pressure operating profits.
Benjamin Reitzes
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