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

Aeschylus

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

This kind of face-to-face competition will hurt performance. That's why it's important to stay profitable over the long term. Some local retailers have been declining.

Sun Luan

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

For the low-cost producers, they are very profitable now, at (steel) prices that are probably not going to fall.

Tim Rocks

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 hope investment will slow down because eventually, that growth won't be profitable.

Kent Yau

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

Sales of 16 million now looks a lot less profitable than 16 million did a few years ago.

Rod Lache

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

If oil prices had stayed where they were in 2004 we would be talking about how profitable the airlines are.

Mike Boyd

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

They are among the three most profitable software companies in the high tech industry.

Paul Wick

We plan on achieving profitable growth in the European market by opening stores, growing same-store sales and improving margins through operational efficiencies and better buying power.

Don Meij

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

Honesty is for the most part, less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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

Panhandling can be very profitable. The quickest way to stop it is to quit giving them money.

Mary Ruiz

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

I've never reached a point where I was profitable ... but it is just that constant struggle. I know this place is good for Lewis County.

Joni Pugh

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

Both core businesses, UK and International, are very well positioned for next year and our distribution arrangement, in the UK and overseas, will have a positive impact to support future profitable growth.

Ben Gunn

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

Despite the declining ASPs [average selling prices] of DRAM [chips], we continued to be profitable in quarter four.

Ben Tseng

China only produces about 20 art films every year and many of them are not profitable. We don't expect big box-office returns from art-film screenings, but this is a meaningful way to develop our film industry.

Gu Min

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

Services are much more profitable than their core business.

Dan Niles

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

It was profitable before, but with the additional growth, the bottom-line percentage has increased.

Leo White

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

The suggestion of establishing this society is profitable for the citizens because it keeps them a way from the greedy merchants in the local markets.

Ali Al

There are only about 10 airports in China that are profitable, some only in terms of cash flow. Overall, Chinese airports have the potential to make money.

Jim Eckes

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