Revenue Quotes - Page 7

• We have tax revenue that's going to allow us to look in a much more comprehensive way at intervening in addiction.

  John Hickenlooper

  Marijuana, Addiction, Looks

  "Colorado's Governor on Marijuana Legalization" by Conor Friedersdorf, www.theatlantic.com. July 1, 2014.

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• Those that think that wealth is the proper thing for them cannot give up their revenues; those that seek distinction cannot give up the thought of fame; those that cleave to power cannot give the handle of it to others. While they hold their grasp of those things, they are afraid of losing them. When they let them go, they are grieved and they will not look at a single example, from which they might perceive the folly of their restless pursuits - such men are under the doom of heaven.

  Zhuangzi

  Giving Up, Men, Thinking

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• Liberals love to say things like, "We're just asking everyone to pay their fair share." But government is not about asking. It is about telling. The difference is fundamental. It is the difference between making love and being raped, between working for a living and being a slave. The Internal Revenue service is not asking anybody to do anything. It confiscates your assets and puts you behind bars if you don't pay.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Differences, Making Love

  Thomas Sowell (1999). “Barbarians Inside the Gates--and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay for the effort from its accumulated reserves and current revenues. Almost all war-making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens who have other uses for their resources.

  Charles Tilly

  War, Moving, Mean

  Charles Tilly, Arthur L. Stinchcombe (1997). “Roads from Past to Future”, p.149, Rowman & Littlefield

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• An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Art, Philosophy, Years

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4514, Delphi Classics

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• Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Real, Real Friends, Wages

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1884). “Cicero de Amicitia (on Friendship) and Scipio's Dream”

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• Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question should be how to promote economic efficiency by raising revenue without trying to manipulate corporate or personal behavior.

  John Sununu

  Views, Political, Trying

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• Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer.

  Billy Sunday

  Jesus, Christ, Officers

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.

  George Foreman

  Sports, Real, Boxing

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• President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission.

  William J. Clinton

  Two, President, Dollars

  William J. Clinton's speech to the Democratic National Convention, www.washingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, People, Economy

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• I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in.

  Smedley Butler

  Boys, Cities, Oil

  Smedley Darlington Butler (2016). “War Is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier”, p.17, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• If you could bring to me a majority of people to say that we're going to have $10 of spending cuts for $1 of revenue enhancement - put me in, Coach.

  Jeb Bush

  Cutting, People, Enhancement

  "The words Jeb Bush may come to regret" by Jonathan Topaz, www.politico.com. February 26, 2015.

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• In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.

  James Buchan

  Eye, Past, Play

  "Greed and amnesia: the devils in financial history" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.

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• Nowadays, with the state of the music business, for any artist, whether you're up-and-coming or you've been in it for awhile, you have to explore different revenues and different ways of expressing yourself.

  Mary J. Blige

  Artist, Different, Way

  "Mary J. Blige Interview THE HELP". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 10, 2011.

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• My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.

  Sara Blakely

  Years, Firsts, Items

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• Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

  Jeff Bezos

  Stronger, Velocity, Return

  "A sign outside Amazon's new Australian warehouse is a reminder of how Jeff Bezos crushes his rivals" by Tony Yoo, www.businessinsider.com.au. November 2, 2017.

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• In the subprime mortgage industry, bankers handed out iffy loans like candy at a parade because such loans meant revenue and, hence, bonuses for executives in the here-and-now.

  Thomas Frank

  Bankers, Bonus, Mortgage

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• In 1980, Atari was bringing in around two billion dollars in revenue and Chuck E. Cheese's some five hundred million. I still didn't feel too bad that I had turned down a one-third ownership of Apple - although I was beginning to think it might turn out to be a mistake.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Mistake, Thinking, Chuck E Cheese

  Nolan Bushnell, Gene Stone (2014). “Finding the Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• I went to art school... but I worked at the Museum of Modern Art. I worked in fundraising at the information membership desk. I ended up, over a period of time, doubling the amount of membership revenue that came in through people entering the museum, so people would ask me to come and work for them.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, School, Fundraising

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• The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.

  Tom Stoppard

  Turtles, Ideas, Defense

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• A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get - and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues, primarily the NFL.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Sports, Law, Nfl

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• My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church; materials that were created on our own personal time.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Church, Royalty, My Family

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• At IMVU, the cost of customer acquisition through our five-dollar-a-day AdWords campaign was less than twenty-five cents. Our revenue from those same customers was more than a dollar.

  Eric Ries

  Twenties, Dollars, Acquisition

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• As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.

  John Podhoretz

  Ideas, Matter, Groups

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