Sentence examples for looking profitable from inspiring English sources

"Farmers have been losing money in conventional agriculture, and organic is looking profitable," said Mark Ritchie, director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy in Minneapolis.

"You cannot get a loan if you don't look profitable, and you can't look profitable if you can't bid the work.

Assuming a modest production budget and some foreign success, Angel of Death looks profitable for Hammer and backers eOne.

Joel Mokyr, an economic historian at Northwestern University, adds, "All of a sudden, some things that didn't look profitable now do".

He said companies looked profitable — and their stocks good — not because of any fundamental improvements but because they had cut costs by laying off workers.

Companies have made themselves look profitable by slashing costs, but he said they are not going to rake in more money in the months ahead as long as weakened consumers stay in hiding.

Mr. Musk says his goal is to help establish a colony on Mars by lowering the cost of launching payloads into space, but his company's not ready to go up there until the venture looks profitable.

"Expensing stock options will increase the time horizon for venture-backed companies' reliance on expensive risk capital because it will take them longer to look profitable" and thus be able to sell stock to the public, said Mark G. Heesen, the president of the National Venture Capital Association.

But does it look profitable?

“If this karaoke and lip-synching stuff looks profitable, YouTube will get into it,” he says.

Even so, there are more and more companies entering the news-on-the-web market, no doubt because it looks profitable.