#profitable

The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. ↗

— Mary Astell

#life #life is too short #matters #short #span

The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#banks #carried #crooked #deals #enormous

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#far #individual #only #profitable #society

We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#bought #got #investment #liquor #money

It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion. ↗

— Evan Davis

#banks #borrow #borrowing #capital #cushion

A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable. ↗

— Heather Donahue

#entertainment #how #illness #into #live

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

#always #businesses #certainly #first #going

In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#because #christianity #divide #i #i do

Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#better #costco #health #health benefits #i

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable. ↗

— Leo Burnett

#dishonesty #issue #moral #moral issue #proved