Workers, who help make their company profitable, need what is rightfully theirs.
The danger is that credit-point-scoring systems of the sort used by banks in the West are too crude to fit individual circumstances.Nursing small and medium-sized entreprises (SMEs) in Central Europe to create a much-needed Mittelstand is still too labour-intensive to be profitable: it needs technical assistance and some subsidy.
Although the Jets are profitable, Johnson needs a lot of new revenues to justify paying $635 million.
The use of technology in a profitable way needs such a scale in investments, resources and especially data that even the largest publishing company will be ill at ease to compete with major, supposedly "non-media" global competitors.
Don't try to do it all alone; if you want the business to be profitable, you need to be reliable, and in order to be reliable, you need help.
If Guatemala's small farmers are to be profitable, they need access to credit, technology and world markets.
"If you are profitable and need capital to grow and can easily cover the debt service, sure, go for it," he wrote.
Bahian farmers want to cattle-ranch on cerrado that has too little rain for crop-farming, but for that to be profitable they need new markets.
Although the couple divorced in 1946, Gabor's legacy to the family arguably includes the career of Hilton's great-granddaughter Paris: with her string of beauty pageants, minor movie roles, social hobnobbing and trading on reputation, Gabor was among the first to recognise and fully exploit the fact that profitable stardom need not be a function of conspicuous performing talent.
The question now is whether refurbishment (and what type) is environmentally and/or economically profitable or needed compared with new construction.
"To be profitable, you need to achieve scale and that takes time," he added, explaining that the company has a "two-to-three-year" target to reach breakeven.
