I think regular Iowans are cynical of this whole idea of corporate welfare, with the biggest awards going to the most profitable companies. It doesn't make sense.
I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.
Managers who assume that higher profits drive better working conditions may have their logic backwards. Contrary to conventional wisdom, our research identified companies in virtually every industry that are profitable because they provide good jobs.
If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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.
I saw full surely that ere God made us He loved us; which love was never slacked, nor ever shall be. And in this love He hath done all His works; and in this love He hath made all things profitable to us; and in this love our life is everlasting. In our making we had beginning; but the love wherein He made us was in Him from without beginning: in which love we have our beginning. And all this shall we see in God, without end.
In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.
The only purpose of advertising is to make sales. It is profitable or unprofitable according to its actual sales.
Entrepreneurship is the art of finding profitable solutions to problems.
I'm a maniacal perfectionist. And if I weren't, I wouldn't have this company. . . . I have proven that being a perfectionist can be profitable and admirable when creating content across the board: in television, books, newspapers, radio, videos.
The world needs sustainable, profitable, vibrant content companies staffed by dedicated professionals; especially content for people that grew up on the web, whose entertainment and news interests are largely neglected by television and newspapers.
We were hoping to build a small profitable company; and of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company.
Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
We were very focused on becoming profitable from a very early time, which was not true of most companies in the bubble
What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.
There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.
Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.
Discipline is rarely enjoyable, but almost always profitable.
Liverpool will be the most profitable investment I've ever made.
It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.