Sentence examples for immediately profitable from inspiring English sources

This will allow Google to experiment with things like Google Glass, which may not be immediately profitable.

He said the state would consider investing in companies when they were engaged in projects that, while not immediately profitable, could eventually yield major payoffs, or when the survival of a "strategic" enterprise was at stake.

The low-budget horror film "Paranormal Activity 2" pulled off a rare trick over the weekend: with $41.5 million in ticket sales at the North American box office, easily enough for No. 1 — and another $22 million overseas — it was immediately profitable.

Jet was able to use its generous venture-capital funding, and a lack of interest in becoming immediately profitable, to be generous to its employees; Walmart, on the other hand, is known for being stingy in the interest of generating profits.

Nestlé has not been afraid to invest in emerging markets and in new lines of business that are not immediately profitable.Nestlé's spending spree started under Helmut Maucher, Mr Brabeck's predecessor.

And investors are willing to invest in tech companies that are not immediately profitable.

"I will immediately become profitable by dropping Saturn, just because of the expense of the franchise.

They can immediately open profitable stores that service the professional mechanic and then grow the retail nicely on top of that.

"I sold it in Finland and realised immediately how profitable it was".

The administration of Mashonaland did not immediately prove profitable for the Company or its investors, partly because of the costly police force, which Rhodes dramatically downsized in 1891 to save money.

The Portland Thorns, owned by the Timbers, were profitable immediately and have shared profits with the NWSL.