Profitable
Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession.
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Profitable Quotations
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
Plato
The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
Aeschylus
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Aeschylus
The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.
David Ogilvy
Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have profitable connections with German chemical firms after the war ends.
Henry A. Wallace
No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
Calvin Coolidge
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
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
Simone de Beauvoir
In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.
Lionel Blue
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
Dick Cavett
Profitable Translations
profitable in German is vorteilhaft, nutzbringend, witschaftlich
profitable in Italian is lucrativo, lucroso
profitable in Latin is facundia, quaestuosus questuosus, lucrosus
profitable in Spanish is aprovechable, fructuoso, ganancioso
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