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It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
Nikolai Gogol
Same Thing
Righteous
Most
Course
Same
Which
Thing
Profitable
Purpose has always been part of Unilever's DNA. Our founder, William Lever, built a business around the sale of Lifebuoy soap that was not only profitable and sustainable but also helped transform the health of the poor in Victorian Britain.
Paul Polman
Health
Business
Our
William
Only
Purpose
Part
Also
Around
Always
Built
Been
Sale
Sustainable
Soap
Transform
Victorian
Poor
Helped
Founder
Profitable
Lever
Britain
Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.
Phil Crosby
Itself
Wanted
Profitable
Needed
A well-functioning microfinance bank can actually be a profitable business as well. So it became a perfect proof point that, through business, you can provide an experience that leads to individual self-empowerment.
Pierre Omidyar
You
Business
Experience
Proof
Perfect
Point
Individual
Through
Leads
Well
Became
Provide
Bank
Actually
Profitable
In order to access private capital, you have to provide competitive return on investment. In order to give competitive returns to investors, you've got to operate on a profitable basis and be thinking of yourself as a business.
Pierre Omidyar
You
Business
Yourself
Thinking
Give
Investment
Investors
Operate
Return
Returns
Access
Got
Private
Provide
Order
Capital
Profitable
Competitive
Basis
We the people have the power to decide who we want to see in our advertisements and how we want the world to be portrayed. If we show that being ethical and being diverse is profitable, they're going to market to us.
Rain Dove
People
World
Power
Market
Our
See
Diverse
Advertisement
How
Going
Being
Want
Decide
Ethical
Us
Show
Who
Profitable
Portrayed
Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.
Ralph Allen
Good
Will
Painting
Stars
Adequate
Rapidly
More
Individualist
Policy
Occupation
Without
Always
Cultural
Shooting
Stop
Forgotten
Help
Who
Profitable
I founded Netflix. I've built it steadily over 12 years now, first with DVD becoming profitable in 2002, a head-to-head ferocious battle with Blockbuster and evolving the company toward streaming.
Reed Hastings
Battle
First
Evolving
Steadily
Netflix
Toward
Over
Becoming
Built
Blockbuster
Years
Ferocious
Company
Now
Streaming
Founded
Profitable
My father and I talked every day. He coached me on how to cold-call companies I wanted in our portfolio, how to network at public events, to cultivate senior journalists at important outlets, and how to run a profitable P&L. But, more or less, he allowed me to make my own mistakes.
Richard Edelman
Day
Me
Every Day
Events
Father
Important
Mistakes
Own
Every
Our
Run
Outlets
My Own
More
Network
More Or Less
Allowed
He
Journalists
Make
Talked
How
Cultivate
Senior
Wanted
Public
Coached
Less
Companies
Portfolio
Profitable
The main reason why it is profitable to establish a firm would seem to be that there is a cost of using the price mechanism. The most obvious cost of 'organizing' production through the price mechanism is that of discovering what the relevant prices are.
Ronald Coase
Relevant
Would
Cost
Seem
Through
Price
Prices
Main
Main Reason
Firm
Most
Obvious
Discovering
Establish
Production
Organizing
Reason
Using
Mechanism
Why
Profitable
Throughout human history, people have developed strong loyalties to traditions, rituals, and symbols. In the most effective organizations, they are not only respected but celebrated. It is no coincidence that the most highly admired corporations are also among the most profitable.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
History
People
Strong
Respected
Corporations
Admired
Only
Rituals
Throughout
Developed
Highly
Most
Also
Traditions
Effective
Celebrated
Human
Human History
Organizations
Loyalties
Among
Profitable
Symbols
Coincidence
Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.
Rudy Rucker
You
Book
Money
Strategy
Enough
Out
Distribution
More
Putting
Make
Print
Any
Deemed
Electronic
Publishing
Hardly
Profitable
One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you need to get profitable before your A round of money, you ought to be able to do that.
Sam Altman
You
Money
Before
Ought
One Of The Things
Able
Get
Urge
Your
Companies
Grasp
Round
Things
Profitability
Profitable
Need
If a company is profitable, the founder is in control. If it's not, investors are in control.
Sam Altman
Control
Investors
Company
Founder
Profitable
I believe good corporate governance is critical in enhancing competitiveness and creating industry - leading profitable growth and superior returns for every stakeholder of the institution.
Shiv Nadar
Good
Superior
Believe
Every
Corporate
Critical
Leading
Institution
Industry
Returns
Governance
Creating
Enhancing
Growth
Profitable
Competitiveness
I'm not a trained academic. Neither am I a veteran social worker. I was 26 years in the corporate world, trying to make organizations profitable. And then in 2003 I started Parikrma Humanity Foundation from my kitchen table.
Shukla Bose
Humanity
World
Veteran
Corporate
Corporate World
Neither
Table
Kitchen
Kitchen Table
Academic
Make
Am
Years
Trained
Trying
Social
Then
Worker
Organizations
Foundation
Profitable
Started
Knopf is solidly profitable, and that is how I intend to keep it.
Sonny Mehta
How
Intend
Keep
Profitable
In the past, when venture-funded startups told their investors they'd found a profitable business model, the first thing VCs would do is to start looking for an 'operating exec' - usually an MBA who would act as the designated 'adult' and take over the transition from Search to Build.
Steve Blank
Business
First
Looking
Build
Past
Startups
Would
Take
Adult
Investors
Over
Operating
First Thing
Model
The First Thing
In The Past
Transition
Act
Business Model
Who
Search
Found
Thing
Profitable
Start
I have always been an advocate and was, in my last job at M&S, a supporter of the Al Gore dictum that a sustainable business can be a profitable business. We were the first sizeable company in the U.K. to prove that was the case.
Stuart Rose
Business
Job
First
Case
Supporter
Gore
Advocate
Always
Prove
Were
Been
Dictum
Sustainable
Company
Al
Al Gore
Profitable
Last
You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.
Sunil Mittal
You
Very
Quickly
Want
Choose
Grow
Profitable
Economics drive the creative, and for a long time, movies about men were just considered 'movies,' whereas movies about women were considered niche and only appealing to women. This is to an extent still true, and what it does is represent movies about women as less profitable.
Susanna Fogel
Time
Creative
Women
Men
Long
Drive
Long Time
Economics
Considered
About
Only
True
Does
Still
Were
Represent
Just
Whereas
Movies
Less
Appealing
Niche
Profitable
Extent
Edible Arrangements will have to beat back some rivals, including a handful of mom-and-pop vendors and a company in Pennsylvania called Incredibly Edible Delites. And there's always the chance that a deep-pocketed national florist like FTD will decide that pretty produce is profitable and jump into the mix.
Tahl Raz
Will
National
Incredibly
Back
Pennsylvania
Some
Pretty
Beat
Rivals
Vendors
Like
Edible
Always
Arrangements
Mix
Handful
Jump
Decide
Produce
Company
Including
Florist
Profitable
Chance
Until my businesses really took off, my family, I think, just assumed I was selling printed T-shirts out of the back of my car. They just couldn't wrap their head around how fashion could be profitable.
Tan France
Fashion
Family
Car
Think
Assumed
Took
Back
Out
Wrap
Could
Head
Until
Printed
Around
How
Off
Selling
Just
Really
Businesses
Profitable
There is nothing to be embarrassed about being profitable.
Terry Semel
Nothing
Embarrassed
About
Being
Profitable
It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.
Tom Perez
Loyalty
Business
Morale
More
Higher
Wages
Which
Means
Productivity
Reason
Stands
Profitable
USDA is committed to keeping pace with the needs and progress of American agriculture by supporting new markets and movements that will keep farmers profitable and help create middle class jobs across the country.
Tom Vilsack
Needs
Class
Progress
Agriculture
Will
Country
Markets
Jobs
Supporting
New
American
Committed
Middle
Movements
Middle Class
Pace
Create
Across
Farmers
Help
Keep
Keeping
Profitable
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