War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

Southern political personalities like sweet corn travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.

Technology isn't the enemy it is our ally but only if we adopt a new model that puts people before profit. I realize that we seem far from that model but I have seen it in action and it is a beautiful thing. So I'm not willing to give up yet. Hope is the last thing to die.

If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big or to grow fast or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems.

Non-profits must become deeply engaged in the ways that their donor communities are using social technology.

It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.

Adversity is a great teacher but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction and often the profit we derive is not worth the price we paid.

Like everybody I have invested in things that have gone bad because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.