Unprofitable Quotes

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people. - E. B. White

The trouble today with retailers is they can't afford to have too many underperforming stores. When 10 percent of your stores are unprofitable, you will start losing money. That wasn't the case years ago. - Britt Beemer

The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. - Mary Astell

The real strength in the market in 2003 was from small-cap and mostly busted companies. It was a huge sigh of relief that many unprofitable companies did not go out of business. - Kent Mergler

The fretful stir
Unprofitable, and the fever of the world
Have hung upon the beatings of my heart. - William Wordsworth

The corporate sector is highly leveraged, unprofitable and has excess capacity. Those are not the ingredients to produce a great deal of growth. - Lacy Hunt

So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do. - Bible

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable. - Leo Burnett

RANSOM, n. The purchase of that which neither belongs to the seller, nor can belong to the buyer. The most unprofitable of investments. - Ambrose Bierce