Quotes About Profitable

Intelligent men have no need to listen to much talk, but should attend only to that which is profitable and guided by God's will.

I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.

I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).

Because aircraft spares are incredibly expensive, and in the case of older aircraft hard to source, the black-market in aviation spares is highly profitable. One head of a counterfeit parts ring said she had moved on from distributing drugs to aircraft parts, simply because it was much more lucrative.

Asked to paint a picture of the company in 20 years, the executives mentioned such things as "on the cover of Business Week as a model success story . . . the Fortune most admired top-ten list . . . the best science and business graduates want to work here . . . people on airplanes rave about one of our products to seatmates . . . 20 consecutive years of profitable growth . . . an entrepreneurial culture that has spawned half a dozen new divisions from within . . .

In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.

We continued the hard work of integrating TWA, because at that time we still thought an efficient connecting hub in St. Louis could be a profitable addition to our network.

The nWo was the greatest time in professional wrestling because we were going into mixed stadiums like the Georgia Dome. That was one of the greatest times in pro wrestling and was the most profitable time in pro wrestling.

Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

Flattery may be considered as a mode of companionship, degrading but profitable to him who flatters.

What good is much discussion of involved and obscure matters when our ignorance of them will not be held against us on Judgment Day? Neglect of things which are profitable and necessary and undue concern with those which are irrelevant and harmful, are great folly.

But if thou knowest that it shall be hurtful unto me, and not profitable for the health of my soul, take the desire away from me'! For not every desire is from the Holy Ghost, although it appear to a man right and good.

This is because, in fact, the best resource allocation systems are designed precisely to weed out ideas that are unlikely to find large, profitable, receptive markets.

As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death.

But be careful: Measures are only beneficial if they lead to profitable action. It is tempting to measure things simply because they are easy to measure; instead, we need to measure things that matter, even when it is difficult to do so. "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts,"4 Einstein observed.

Library work is far too pleasant to be grossly profitable.

younger son of a merchant? What was his life about? Trade? Clever, profitable dealings? He was from a city-state that flourished by letting no one hate them enough to do anything disagreeable. Where you are situated in the world

If we want to protect people against dictators or repression or torture, don't you need that rule to be universal so as to not end up with a situation where we do so only when it is comfortable, profitable and safe?

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.

The American City was not unlike the first great products of American industrialism itself: the Colt revolver and the Winchester rifle. Gun manufacturing taught American industry about mass production, standardization, and the virtues of interchangeable parts, and the American city that industrialism produced was itself a very big gun: standardized, hugely profitable, and morally indifferent about any victims.

this holding has proved extraordinarily profitable thanks to a move by your Chairman that combined luck and skill—110% luck, the balance skill.

This line of thought led Toyota (and others) to conclude, eventually, that it often is more profitable to empower workers to be flexible "learning machines" than it is to invest in new capital equipment.