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Quotes About Unprofitable

If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.
~ Polybius
soon as I had convinced myself that this stale, unprofitable world of my discontent contained such a thing as a command to be seized, I recovered my powers of locomotion.
~ Joseph Conrad
It's a long way from not having enough serotonin to thinking the world is "stale, flat and unprofitable"; even further to writing a play about a man driven by that thought.
~ Susanna Kaysen
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
~ William Shakespeare
When believers neglect the revealed Word of God, they are likely to turn to silly and unprofitable methods of insight.
~ Max Anders
In literature one has the best company in the world at complete command; one also has the worst. One has a social conscience which dissuades one from harbouring unprofitable company in life, and I find that my two canons are a great aid and support for an analogous literary conscience which speaks up against consorting with unprofitable company in literature.
~ Albert Jay Nock
When I compare my slow and unprofitable life with the frequent and wonderful mercies received, it shames me, it silences me, and leaves me inexcusable.
~ Richard Baxter
Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.
~ John Herschel
It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.
~ Esther Dyson
The state is valuable if it helps to maximize profits, but is apparently to have little part in economic life beyond this and beyond fulfilling functions which are too big or too unprofitable for private enterprise.
~ Robert Maynard Hutchins
Because there are so many ways to analyze the market, you will inevitably find some indicator from some method of analysis that can be used to justify holding a position. This is true for both profitable and unprofitable positions: you will keep a profitable position longer than originally intended and possibly have it turn into a loss, and you will rationalize holding a losing position far beyond what you were originally willing to lose.
~ Jim Paul
Market positions are either profitable or unprofitable, period.
~ Jim Paul
Cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness.
~ Anonymous
All theological lore is growing distasteful to me. All my recent excursions into such fields proves it to be a shifting, hypothetical, doubt-fostering, dusty, and unprofitable study.
~ Wilfred Owen
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world.
~ William Shakespeare
Again, you may look upon life as an unprofitable episode, disturbing the blessed calm of non-existence. And, in any case, even though things have gone with you tolerably well, the longer you live the more clearly you will feel that, on the whole, life is a disappointment, nay, a cheat. If
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.
~ Esther Dyson
If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.
~ Polybius
I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It's a challenge to the powers that be. It's saying there is a real literature in this country and we will keep publishing it.
~ Alan Lightman
It's a long way from not having enough serotonin to thinking the world is stale, flat and unprofitable; even further to writing a play about a man driven by that thought.
~ Susanna Kaysen
The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
~ E. B. White
Madame de Pompadour excelled at an art which the majority of human beings thoroughly despise because it is unprofitable and ephemeral: the art of living. Change is the greatest aphrodisiac of all.
~ Nancy Mitford
traders and salespeople were only manageable when they were unprofitable, in which case they weren't wanted.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We are at a time in history where everyone with any insight of the climate crisis that threatens our civilisation - and the entire biosphere - must speak out in clear language, no matter how uncomfortable and unprofitable that may be.
~ Greta Thunburg