“There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy.” WantLittlesLongEndsGovernmentWaitingEconomyRiskLessonsCrisisFinancialSpendingDamageGet AwayMore MoneyUnderestimateFinancial Crisis Author:Timothy Geithner
“We need to simplify our tax code. We need to make sure that it's not too cumbersome for people to be able to comply with. And that they don't end up spending more money trying to file their taxes than they do actually paying in.” PeopleNeedsTryingEndsAbleTaxesSpendingCodeMore MoneyFilesSimplify Author:Kristi Noem
“After a while the business end of writing takes too much of the writing time. Better to pay someone ten percent and find that you're still more than ten percent ahead in the end. Which is true. My present agent says that he always feels that a good agent during the course of a year should earn back for his client at least the ten percent he takes by way of commission, so the client's really nothing out. And what he should ideally do is make him more money than the ten percent.” WayFeelsShouldWritingYearsStillsEndsCoursesPayToo MuchTenPercentAgentsMore MoneyClients Author:Roger Zelazny