The most profitable way to build a winner, they argue, is to invest in developing young talent.
It seems that if being a liberal appeared to be the most profitable way to go, that's what he would be preaching today.
For Gautam Adani, the power mogul, the answer was simple: the easiest and most profitable way to meet India's rising demand for electricity is to avoid the obstacles, divisive political confrontations and practical inefficiencies of India.
Shipping it as rum was more profitable than shipping it as raw sugar, much as, in the 18th century, whiskey was the most profitable way to ship corn from the American frontier to the Eastern Seaboard.
Finally, it's undeniable that developing an offline version of the OED and HTOED would cost money and it's not clear that such an effort would be the most profitable way to invest the press's limited funds.
De Botton's standard argumentative gambit is exemplified in the opening pages, when he offers, as what is grandly called a "thesis", the proposition: "The most profitable way of addressing the condition may be to attempt to understand and to speak of it".
Pink slime and E.coli/salmonella; the chicken arsenic and inspection issues about which Nick Kristof wrote last week, cuts in funding at the U.S.D.A., F.D.A., E.P.A., and so on … what we're seeing are budget cuts as a form of deregulation, and that deregulation is geared toward allowing producers to raise the animals in our food supply any damn way they please, in the most profitable way possible.
In many of these cases, the decision maker faces the fundamental problem outlined above to use these additional resources in the most profitable way.
After SEO and email, affiliate type deals/coupons are the most profitable way to get new customers, says WhaleShark.
But even if MP3 does take off, MP3.com's advertising model may not be the most profitable way to do business.
