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«A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.»
«If you don't do it excellently, 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?»
Author: Robert Townsend
| About:
Business,
Doing Your Best
| Keywords:
business, excellent, excellently, fun, profit, profitable
«It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.»
«Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.»
Author: Don Marquis
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Honesty
| Keywords:
possessor, possessors, profitable, under control
«If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.»
Author: Edward R. Murrow
(Journalist)
| Keywords:
considerable, decline, grounds, in color, profitable, quiz, Second Coming, stations, The Second Coming
«Genuine ignorance is... profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.»
Author: John Dewey
(Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
accompanied, cant, canted, canting, cants, catch phrase, coats, conceit, genuine, phrases, profitable, propositions, The Cant, varnish, varnished, waterproof
«Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.»
«And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons, / Serving the LORD with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews: / And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house, / Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
Asia, befell, house-to-house, lying-in, lying in wait, profitable, testifying, the Greeks
«Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]»
«Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.»
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