Kandi Burruss

When you're in a situation where somebody puts something on you that you don't even know how to defend because it's not true... how do you defend that? It's just like, 'You know what? I'm going to take what you said about me, flip it, and make it lucrative.

American Musician

Adrien Brody

It's great when people appreciate your work, but I don't know how seriously to take it. The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing, and that can even be extremely lucrative, but I love it either way.

American Actor

Alexandra Kosteniuk

My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.

Russian Celebrity

Jackson Browne

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.

Kurt Busch

Leaving a great organization and a lucrative contract is not easy, but it allows me to take a deep breath and work on things that can make me a better driver and a better person.

American Driver

Joe Calzaghe

You think that after becoming world champion, you're going to be a massive superstar with lots of lucrative bouts against great fighters, but that never materialised for me.

Welsh Athlete

Himani Shivpuri

I willingly gave up many assignments in films, TV and endorsements, which were far more economically lucrative, for the sake of theatre as I am really passionate about it.

Indian Actress

Stacey Solomon

Nurturing and spending time and effort on what's happening underneath our exteriors is much more lucrative than spending a lifetime and shed load of money on your outside.

Shenaz Treasury

After my first ad, I was flooded with offers, which I took up. Soon, I decided that it could be a lucrative business with a parallel college life.

American Actress

Tamzin Outhwaite

If anything, I would say the movies I've done have been very low paid. TV work and voice-overs have been more lucrative.

English Actress

Often used to describe profitable activity within a career or market.

Business Focus

Implies success and a desirable outcome beyond just profit.

Positive Implication

Best used in professional or financial contexts, not personal life.

Context Matters

Expresses that a person or business is generating significant income.

Financial Success

Implies sustainability and ongoing profits, not just a one-time event.

Long-term Earnings

Commonly refers to profits within businesses or entrepreneurial projects.

Business Ventures

 at a place like McDonald's. Which already foreshadows the main result that I've talked about, about what a crappy job it was, being in the gang. Because obviously, if being in the gang were such a wonderful, lucrative job, why in the world would these guys moonlight at McDonald's? So what do the wages look like? You might be surprised.

The freakonomics of...

 He was trying to help poor Alabama sharecroppers whose cotton yields were declining, and he knew that planting peanuts in their fields would replenish those soils so that their cotton yields would be better a few years later. But he also knew it needed to be lucrative for them in the short run.

The power to think ahead...

 by the age of six, and defining themselves based on attractiveness by around that same time. Right? Yes? Right, Bradley, okay, excellent point. So there was a lucrative market in that society in convincing all people they had to look a certain way to even have a sex life, right?

Sarah Jones: One woman,...

 years in an extremely lucrative market lesson two successful informal businesses are extremely responsive to the needs of their customers in particular informal business is very good at tracking government activity civil wars and other events that may

Demystifying the other...

 and provided space for her to write and publish her work anonymously. But writing was hardly lucrative work. And although she had sparks of chemistry, she never married. Elements of her circumstances can be found in many of her characters;

The wicked wit of Jane...

 I guess made me take that final decision of where I was going to go, even though it wasn't the most lucrative research to go into, but it was just about what I believed in. And so one day, my boss said that he likes to go to Africa

How Africa can use its...

 innovative pricing charging for road infrastructure by the mile not by the gallon we can use some smart IT to enhance transit and enable car sharing and ride-sharing we can allow smart and lucrative growth models that help people

A 40-year plan for...

 We can use some smart IT to enhance transit and enable car sharing and ride sharing. We can allow smart and lucrative growth models that help people already be near where they want to be, so they don't need to go somewhere else.

Amory Lovins: A 40-year...

 peoples are undergoing quite high levels of degradation and destruction for the sake of oil palm plantations rice projects my fear is that something is financially more lucrative than protecting the peatlands will mean that

Peatlands Critical In...

 It's much easier and more lucrative to market a technological fix for these gaps in health than to deal with the structural inequities that produce them. The reason I'm so passionate about ending race medicine

Lucrative

Something that produces a lot of money or profit.

Often appears as...

Earning a lot of money from a trade or business.

Often appears as...

Business Focus

Positive Implication

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