Revenue Quotes - Page 2

• It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus.

  John F. Kennedy

  Running, Cutting, Long

  Address to the Economic Club of New York, delivered 14 December 1962, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• While Google has given away pretty much everything it has to offer - from search and maps to email and apps - this has always been part of its greater revenue model: the pennies per placement it gets for seeding the entire Google universe of search and services with ever more targeted advertising.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Google, Email, Maps

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• The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!

  William Shakespeare

  Ignorance, Stupidity, Common

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1570

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• Yeah, every team has to look to maximize their revenue.

  Dan Rooney

  Team, Looks, Yeah

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• A 2011 report produced by Forrester Research estimated that the revenue generated through the sales of smartphone and tablet applications will reach $38 billion annually by 2015. Think about that: An industry that did not exist in 2006 will be generating $38 billion in revenues within a decade. . . .

  Thomas Friedman

  Thinking, Smartphones, Tablets

  Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum (2011). “That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back”, p.70, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• If you are spending too much, you cut back on spending and you raise your revenues. And that's it.

  Charles Rangel

  Cutting, Too Much, Spending

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• Revenue and wealth do not bring disgrace.

  Bruno Kreisky

  Wealth, Disgrace

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• We understand the need to balance our short- and longer-term needs because our revenue is the engine that funds all our innovation. But over time, our emerging high-usage products will likely generate significant new revenue streams for Google as well as for our partners, just as search does today.

  Larry Page

  Google, Innovation, Balance

  "Larry Page Just Put Out A Big Manifesto - Read The Full Thing Here" by Matt Lynley, www.businessinsider.com. April 5, 2012.

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• The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty of its public buildings; but it consists in the number of its cultivated citizens, in its men of education, enlightenment and character.

  Martin Luther

  Country, Character, Men

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• I've set aside a nice chunk of my advertising revenue each month for giveaways, like a KitchenAid mixer. I like buying them for the audience, because without the audience I wouldn't have the blog or the revenue in the first place.

  Ree Drummond

  Nice, Each Month, Blogging

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• When the private does well, there's revenue for the public sector.

  Jim Talent

  Doe, Wells, Public Sector

  "Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien". www.cnn.com. June 14, 2012.

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• When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Average, Years

  "Deficits Make You Poorer". www.lewrockwell.com. March 15, 2005.

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• For every dollar of revenue generated by gambling, taxpayers must pay at least $3 in increased criminal justice costs, social welfare expenses, high regulatory costs, and increased infrastructure expenditures

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Justice, Dollars

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• You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.

  George P. Shultz

  Expansion, Taxes, Rate

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• We cannot build county councils based on one single constituency. It doesn't make sense because it does not have a sufficient revenue base to be able to provide the services that county councils are required to provide.

  Raila Odinga

  Doe, Able, Council

  Source: concernedkenyan.blogspot.com

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• The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues.

  William Vickrey

  Impact, Government, Poor

  William Spencer Vickrey (2004). “Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey”, Edward Elgar Pub

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• Revenues should be increased not by increasing the tax rates on the individual but by building a bigger economy for everybody.

  Ronald Reagan

  Building, Economy, Individual

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• Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.

  Leslie Charteris

  Writing, Literature, Lasts

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• Retaining 'Monday Night Football' simply did not make smart financial sense for ABC. We could not reconcile the fees against the revenue. We love football at ABC. It's been a love affair for 36 years. It will go down in the history of sports television, being created on ABC and with this magnificent run. But at this point, given the success we're having with our entertainment product and the financials, we deemed that this was the proper move for us. We're not looking back .

  George Bodenheimer

  Sports, Football, Running

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• How many businesses do you know that want to cut their revenue in half? That's why the healthcare system won't change the healthcare system.

  Rick Scott

  Cutting, Half, Want

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• High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class.

  Linda McQuaig

  Class, Focus, Finance

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• The faster the gambling activity, the more highly addictive it is; and the more addictive the gambling activity is, the more revenue it will generate for the industry

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Faster, Activity

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• Throughout history governments have been chronically short of revenue. The reason should be clear: unlike you and me, governments do not produce useful goods and services that they can sell on the market; governments, rather than producing and selling services, live parasitically off the market and off society.

  Murray Rothbard

  Government, Like You, Reason

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• Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Buying, Wealth, Certain

  "Paradoxa", 6. 3, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 864-67,

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• Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually.

  George Soros

  Marijuana, Dollars, Enforcement

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