Payroll Quotes

• I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.

  Alan Coren

  Funny Inspirational, Humorous, Fools Day

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• Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll.

  Dusty Baker

  Summer, Sports, Race

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• Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base

  Gavin Newsom

  Book, Pressure, Small Business

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• The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers.

  George M. Humphrey

  Eggs, Golden, Consumers

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• I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less

  Meg Whitman

  Running, Business, Technology

  "CNBC's Larry Kudlow Speaks With California Gubernatorial Candidates Republican Meg Whitman & Democrat Jerry Brown Tonight on CNBC's 'The Kudlow Report'". www.cnbc.com. July 16, 2010.

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• The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes.

  John Shadegg

  Reality, Payroll Tax, Numbers

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• Money has to be put in the way a club feels it should. If you put money in a new ballpark, that helps to generate revenue so you can spend more money. It should be spent to make the club's operations the best. That will help in the end, and it will mean enhanced payroll.

  Bud Selig

  Mean, Clubs, Way

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• My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.

  Billy Corgan

  World, Lines, Championship

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• For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.

  Mike Pence

  Pregnancy, Government, Years

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Congress has changed the Social Security system over time, and over 20 times in the past Congress has raised taxes on Social Security in payroll taxes into the system.

  Chris Chocola

  Past, Payroll Tax, Security Systems

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• A real friend or mentor isn't on your payroll.

  Prince

  Real, Real Friends, Mentor

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• Lack of resources (payroll), time and competing priorities are why so many nonprofits haven't done well. It's that simple.

  Seth Godin

  Business, Simple, Priorities

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• If you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or - whomever around their office.

  Warren Buffett

  Payroll Tax, Office, Looks

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• If I had the Rangers payroll, I'd never lose a game

  Glen Sather

  Games, Rangers, Ifs

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• Be prepared for the creation of an intrusive bureaucracy to police the ordinance by examining the books and payroll ledgers of businesses.

  Randy Hamilton

  Book, Police, Creation

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• The payroll tax increase was destructive financially, it took what was a close call and made it a bad call.

  Mike McGavick

  Payroll Tax, Increase, Made

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• Her Majesty's Secret Service wouldn't have me on the payroll.

  Colin Farrell

  Secret, Hollywood, Majesty

  "Nicky Hilton in splitsville; Lohan lashes out at dad; Kidman dating Hurley's ex?". Daily Dish, www.sfgate.com. November 9, 2004.

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• If the business were a play, Act One is: Woohoo, bright and bushy-tailed. We're going to make something great! Act Two is: We're six months behind on back-end development. We're trying to raise venture capital. We're trying to figure out what furniture we should sell to make payroll.

  Caterina Fake

  Business, Play, Two

  "How We Did It: Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, Co-founders, Flickr". Interview with Stewart Butterfield, www.inc.com. December 1, 2006.

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• Seen from the point of view of the particular group interests of the bureaucrats, every measure that makes the government's payroll swell is progress.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Views, Progress

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

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• If you hire relatives, you'll have a payroll that won't quit.

  Milton Berle

  Quitting, Ifs

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• The truth is not that the problem is the newsroom does not understand capitalism. The problem is that the front office does not understand journalism. The problem is not that the average reporter does not understand what it is that's necessary to make the payroll, to make the good edifice, to make the thing that he wants. It is that in fact those who control too many of the edifices have actually come to believe that Wall Street has wisdom, and that that wisdom should instruct our business.

  Hodding Carter III

  Wall, Believe, Average

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• First, it is providing a means whereby key individuals on its payroll are able to obtain both power and wealth through granting special favors to certain politically influential groups that are subject to its regulation. This activity is similar to the 'protection racket' of organized crime: for a price, one can induce FDA administrators to provide 'protection' from the FDA itself.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Mean, Dark, Keys

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• While good business ideas are plentiful, many entrepreneurs struggle to understand payroll taxes, health care and other thorny issues… In other words, they don't have the financial literacy to scale their businesses and attract investors.

  Daymond John

  Struggle, Ideas, Payroll Tax

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• Our [generation] people have the worst diet of anybody. I'm ready to put a farmer on my payroll. We've got to get back to growing our own food. You are what you eat!

  Prince

  Our Generation, People, Generations

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are.

  Dusty Baker

  Care, Budgets, Who You Are

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