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If you talk about learnings, that really was the key, it's the big one, you add more stores and each one a profitable store, then the overall profitability will increase ... now you are in a virtuous circle. – John Bason	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I think it'll be a whole different reception for Airbnb, assuming that they can show they're a profitable business without having to lose money on marketing. – Kathleen Smith	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This is exactly the kind of movie that every studio dreams of producing, because its going to be profitable, prestigious and a long-term performer, a lot of original type movies that are non-franchise non-sequels, many of them have had a rough go this year. This is a nice counter-balance to that. – Paul Dergarabedian	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
It would be better for them not to do another acquisition at least of this scale until Smashburger and CBTL become profitable. – Renzo Louie Candano	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The objective is to make the factory profitable and productive, so it generates employment and riches. – Carlos Alberto	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This strike should send a message to corporate CEOs across the country, it is absolutely unacceptable for profitable corporations to provide obscene compensation packages to executives, while ripping off workers and their families. – Bernie Sanders	Found on CNN 4 years ago
When will you be self-sustaining? When will you be profitable without continually having to ask for more and more money from debt holders and equity investors? – Alex Snyder	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The Asia-Pacific meth market is now the biggest in the world, of all the organized crime types, meth trafficking is the most dangerous and the most profitable. It underpins the growing power of these transnational crime groups. – Jeremy Douglas	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Most cannabis companies trading at nosebleed valuations are loss-making start-ups that are still trying to build out their distribution infrastructure and compliance, tPB already has the distribution, has a profitable core business with a proven management team, and has the regulatory background. If TPB traded at even a fraction of the valuation of other cannabis names, the stock would double overnight. – Anonymous Analytics	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This is a restart, we are creating a bank that will be more profitable, leaner, more innovative and more resilient. – Christian Sewing	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Rural telcos are not very profitable and a lot of the owners are in their 50s, 60s and 70s. If they have to rip out their network, they are probably going to shut down if they can't easily find a buyer. – Recon Analytics ' Entner	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's hard to be profitable with a high growth rate. – Elon Musk	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The shares have fallen because of a total misunderstanding of the situation, first Quantum is not going to lose its assets. It is profitable, it is paying salaries and paying taxes... First Quantum won't sell the Zambia assets. Zambia is their cash cow. – Charl Malan	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
If it wasnt profitable. – Thomas Jacob	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
There is no evidence the core ride-hailing business is profitable. – Steve Blank	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We had to expand into new markets, we fought to be profitable and to create jobs here again. – Helmut Bernitzki	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
There was some worry about unicorn IPOs after Lyft( LYFT) disappointed but Zoom and Pinterest show there's an appetite for highly valued startups, it's [ growing ] blazing fast and highly profitable. It wasn't cheap when it priced its IPO, but despite it being given premium valuation it surged further today. – Matt Kennedy	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It's hard to argue that if oil demand starts to go into free fall, which is what we see as plausible, that ... the oil and gas industry as a whole remains as intrinsically as profitable as it does today. – Nick Stansbury	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The pace of change is happening so quickly that you have to show that you can become profitable quickly, some of these companies could go away tomorrow because it's just an app on my phone and I can find another one in a second to get to work or have food delivered. – Jordan Stuart	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
There's no discernable way these companies are valued. What you're really buying into is the long-term ability of the company to capture lots of sales and hopefully get profitable at some point, i'm sure that the Lyft debut is going to affect both Uber and Pinterest. – Brian Hamilton	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
There is a population that does not feel welcome (in traditional banks), technology lowers the costs of banking, and with these new technologies - where everything is digital - it becomes profitable to have lower-income clients. – Lucas Llach	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The key thing we're trying to achieve is to help customers decarbonize their energy usage, if we can do that over time by building a profitable business generating carbon credits at a cheaper cost than the market price, then we'll obviously take that. – Maarten Wetselaar	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The last three years of the '90s bull market were very profitable but very volatile, we may be looking at a period like that again. – Eli Pars	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
They'll be more bothered by market share and whether Uber can be profitable in places...where there´s competition. – Nathan Lustig	Found on Reuters 5 years ago

If you talk about learnings, that really was the key, it's the big one, you add more stores and each one a profitable store, then the overall profitability will increase ... now you are in a virtuous circle.

– John Bason

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I think it'll be a whole different reception for Airbnb, assuming that they can show they're a profitable business without having to lose money on marketing.

– Kathleen Smith

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This is exactly the kind of movie that every studio dreams of producing, because its going to be profitable, prestigious and a long-term performer, a lot of original type movies that are non-franchise non-sequels, many of them have had a rough go this year. This is a nice counter-balance to that.

– Paul Dergarabedian

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It would be better for them not to do another acquisition at least of this scale until Smashburger and CBTL become profitable.

– Renzo Louie Candano

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The objective is to make the factory profitable and productive, so it generates employment and riches.

– Carlos Alberto

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This strike should send a message to corporate CEOs across the country, it is absolutely unacceptable for profitable corporations to provide obscene compensation packages to executives, while ripping off workers and their families.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When will you be self-sustaining? When will you be profitable without continually having to ask for more and more money from debt holders and equity investors?

– Alex Snyder

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The Asia-Pacific meth market is now the biggest in the world, of all the organized crime types, meth trafficking is the most dangerous and the most profitable. It underpins the growing power of these transnational crime groups.

– Jeremy Douglas

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Most cannabis companies trading at nosebleed valuations are loss-making start-ups that are still trying to build out their distribution infrastructure and compliance, tPB already has the distribution, has a profitable core business with a proven management team, and has the regulatory background. If TPB traded at even a fraction of the valuation of other cannabis names, the stock would double overnight.

– Anonymous Analytics

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This is a restart, we are creating a bank that will be more profitable, leaner, more innovative and more resilient.

– Christian Sewing

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Rural telcos are not very profitable and a lot of the owners are in their 50s, 60s and 70s. If they have to rip out their network, they are probably going to shut down if they can't easily find a buyer.

– Recon Analytics ' Entner

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's hard to be profitable with a high growth rate.

– Elon Musk

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The shares have fallen because of a total misunderstanding of the situation, first Quantum is not going to lose its assets. It is profitable, it is paying salaries and paying taxes... First Quantum won't sell the Zambia assets. Zambia is their cash cow.

– Charl Malan

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If it wasnt profitable.

– Thomas Jacob

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

There is no evidence the core ride-hailing business is profitable.

– Steve Blank

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We had to expand into new markets, we fought to be profitable and to create jobs here again.

– Helmut Bernitzki

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There was some worry about unicorn IPOs after Lyft( LYFT) disappointed but Zoom and Pinterest show there's an appetite for highly valued startups, it's [ growing ] blazing fast and highly profitable. It wasn't cheap when it priced its IPO, but despite it being given premium valuation it surged further today.

– Matt Kennedy

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's hard to argue that if oil demand starts to go into free fall, which is what we see as plausible, that ... the oil and gas industry as a whole remains as intrinsically as profitable as it does today.

– Nick Stansbury

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The pace of change is happening so quickly that you have to show that you can become profitable quickly, some of these companies could go away tomorrow because it's just an app on my phone and I can find another one in a second to get to work or have food delivered.

– Jordan Stuart

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There's no discernable way these companies are valued. What you're really buying into is the long-term ability of the company to capture lots of sales and hopefully get profitable at some point, i'm sure that the Lyft debut is going to affect both Uber and Pinterest.

– Brian Hamilton

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There is a population that does not feel welcome (in traditional banks), technology lowers the costs of banking, and with these new technologies - where everything is digital - it becomes profitable to have lower-income clients.

– Lucas Llach

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The key thing we're trying to achieve is to help customers decarbonize their energy usage, if we can do that over time by building a profitable business generating carbon credits at a cheaper cost than the market price, then we'll obviously take that.

– Maarten Wetselaar

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The last three years of the '90s bull market were very profitable but very volatile, we may be looking at a period like that again.

– Eli Pars

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

They'll be more bothered by market share and whether Uber can be profitable in places...where there´s competition.

– Nathan Lustig

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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either of two different animal or plant species living in close association but not interdependent

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