#profit

Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough. ↗

— Norman Granz

#area #because #been #economic #enough

I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores vibrant and profitable. ↗

— John Green

#bookstores #crazy #i #i think #independent

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit. ↗

— George Grosz

#cult #genius #greater #individuality #itself

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#learn #pleasure #profit #read #which

I founded Netflix. I've built it steadily over 12 years now, first with DVD becoming profitable in 2002, a head-to-head ferocious battle with Blockbuster and evolving the company toward streaming. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#becoming #blockbuster #built #company #dvd

Poets wish to profit or to please. ↗

— Horace

#poets #profit #wish

The food industry profits from providing poor quality foods with poor nutritional value that people eat a lot of. ↗

— Mark E. Hyman

#food #food industry #foods #industry #lot

Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable. ↗

— Trey Parker

#profitable #right #sometimes

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#dearly #derive #great #instruction #makes

It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales! ↗

— Robert Bolt

#his #man #nothing #profits #soul