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Our strategy made money by shorting energy and grains, probably similar to other CTAs (Commodity Trading Advisers), but we were also profitable in the first half when crude and other markets moved sideways. – Barry Goodman	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I am very confident in the future prospects of our enterprise, which will combine an improved capital structure with a network of profitable properties. – Gary Loveman	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We have never tried to price our wages so high they run the company out of business, we want our company to be profitable. – Renard Duvall	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We think (it) will become profitable towards the end of the decade, so towards 2019, from then, it will be one of the biggest contributors to Airbus' profitability. – Chief Executive Fabrice Bregier	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It is a lifeline for the Castro regime that will allow them to become more profitable ... and allow them to become a more permanent fixture, the embargo is leverage, these sanctions are leverage. – Marco Rubio	Found on CNN 9 years ago
We are working on a sensible, profitable solution for the exit. – Klaus Mangold	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I think we’ll see some healthy consolidation take place, some may wither on the vine, but technology has improved to make it profitable to extract at a lower price point than last year. As a result, we’ll probably see some opportunistic buying. – Brian Jacobsen	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I think we'll see some healthy consolidation take place, some may wither on the vine, but technology has improved to make it profitable to extract at a lower price point than last year. As a result, we'll probably see some opportunistic buying. – Brian Jacobsen	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Corporates are sound, flooded with cash and generally speaking profitable, Two risks in buying corporate assets are that the central banks disappoint, which we don't expect, or that growth disappoints, which we also don't expect. – Pascal Blanque	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there? – Robert Townsend	added by anonymous 9 years ago
An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders. – Thomas Traherne	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. – Simone de Beauvoir	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children. – Francis de Sales	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable. – Frank Dane	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity. – Arnold Bennett	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Flattery may be considered as a mode of companionship, degrading but profitable to him who flatters. – Theophrastus	added by anonymous 12 years ago
What is the most profitable? Fellowship with the good. What is the worst thing in the world? The society of evil men. What is the greatest loss? Failure in one?s duty. Where is the greatest peace? In truth and righteousness. Who is the hero? The man who subdues his senses. Who is the best beloved? The faithful wife. What is wealth? Knowledge. What is the most perfect happiness? Staying at home. – Bhartrihari	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. – Don Marquis	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Never lie when the truth is more profitable. – Stanislaw J. Lec	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself. – Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Honesty is for the most part, less profitable than dishonesty. – Plato	added by anonymous 13 years ago
America, meaning mostly the United States, is not an easy concept to comprehend. It may be appropriate that it was discovered by a Genoese sailor, in the service of the Spanish crown, looking for some place else and that, for the next half-century, it was treated as a geological impediment to be gotten through or around in order to reach some far more profitable other side. – Vincent Canby, The New York Times, November 11, 1984	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated. – B. C. Forbes	added by anonymous 13 years ago
When we can say "no" not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it. – Charles A. Stoddard	added by anonymous 13 years ago

Our strategy made money by shorting energy and grains, probably similar to other CTAs (Commodity Trading Advisers), but we were also profitable in the first half when crude and other markets moved sideways.

– Barry Goodman

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I am very confident in the future prospects of our enterprise, which will combine an improved capital structure with a network of profitable properties.

– Gary Loveman

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We have never tried to price our wages so high they run the company out of business, we want our company to be profitable.

– Renard Duvall

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We think (it) will become profitable towards the end of the decade, so towards 2019, from then, it will be one of the biggest contributors to Airbus' profitability.

– Chief Executive Fabrice Bregier

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It is a lifeline for the Castro regime that will allow them to become more profitable ... and allow them to become a more permanent fixture, the embargo is leverage, these sanctions are leverage.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We are working on a sensible, profitable solution for the exit.

– Klaus Mangold

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I think we’ll see some healthy consolidation take place, some may wither on the vine, but technology has improved to make it profitable to extract at a lower price point than last year. As a result, we’ll probably see some opportunistic buying.

– Brian Jacobsen

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I think we'll see some healthy consolidation take place, some may wither on the vine, but technology has improved to make it profitable to extract at a lower price point than last year. As a result, we'll probably see some opportunistic buying.

– Brian Jacobsen

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Corporates are sound, flooded with cash and generally speaking profitable, Two risks in buying corporate assets are that the central banks disappoint, which we don't expect, or that growth disappoints, which we also don't expect.

– Pascal Blanque

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

– Robert Townsend

added by anonymous
9 years ago

An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.

– Thomas Traherne

added by anonymous
9 years ago

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

– Simone de Beauvoir

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children.

– Francis de Sales

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.

– Frank Dane

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

– Arnold Bennett

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Flattery may be considered as a mode of companionship, degrading but profitable to him who flatters.

– Theophrastus

added by anonymous
12 years ago

What is the most profitable? Fellowship with the good. What is the worst thing in the world? The society of evil men. What is the greatest loss? Failure in one?s duty. Where is the greatest peace? In truth and righteousness. Who is the hero? The man who subdues his senses. Who is the best beloved? The faithful wife. What is wealth? Knowledge. What is the most perfect happiness? Staying at home.

– Bhartrihari

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

– Don Marquis