“When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise them. That's statesmanship of the highest order.” OrderWealthMoneyCuttingTaxesHighestRaisesBrokeStatesmanship Author:Will Rogers
“There is a secret to investing that cuts a path directly to the profits that you're looking for. The secret is simplicity. The more elementary your investment style, the more confident you can be of making money in the long run.” LongRunningMoneySecretPathCuttingStyleInvestmentInvestingSimplicityProfitMaking MoneyLong Runs Book:Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy Source: Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy
“When it comes to the budget, we know that we shouldn't be cutting more on core investments, like education, that are going to help us grow in the future. And we've already seen the deficit cut in half. It's going down faster than any time in the last 60 years. So why would we make more cuts in education, more cuts in basic research? Nobody thinks that's a good idea.” ThinkingKnowsYearsIdeasHelpingLastsPoliticalPoliticsGrowsMoneyPartyEducationHalfCuttingPolicyResearchStrategyInvestmentCoreIdeologyFasterBudgetsGood IdeasPolitical PartiesDeficitBasic Research Author:Barack Obama
“As more money flowed through Washington and as Washington's power to regulate our lives grew, opportunities and temptations for graft, influence peddling and cutting corners grew exponentially. Power breeds corruption.” OpportunityMoneyPowerOur LivesCuttingInfluenceGrewCorruptionCornersTemptationMore MoneyDishonestyPeddlingCutting Corners Author:Steve Forbes
“The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.” WantDesireWealthMoneyCuttingFeetShoesBootsSchemesCutting Off Author:Jonathan Swift
“My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.” GovernmentMoneyCuttingRanSlogansTaxpayers Author:William Weld
“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies and cuts through to the essence of the evolutionary spirit.” SpiritMoneyCuttingEssenceGreedCorporate GreedGreed Is Good Author:Michael Douglas
“Here's what I can tell the American people: 95 percent of you will get a tax cut. And if you make less than $250,000, less than a quarter-million dollars a year, then you will not see one dime's worth of tax increase.” PeopleIfsYearsI CanMoneyMillionsCuttingTaxesPercentIncreaseDollarsQuartersMillion DollarsDimesTax CutsTax Increases Author:Barack Obama
“To the extent that we've got a fiscal crisis right now, part of it is prompted by a bullheaded insistence on the part of the president, for example, that we should extend all of his tax cuts, make all of them permanent.” ShouldPresidentMoneyCuttingExampleRight NowTaxesCrisisPermanentTax CutsInsistence Author:Barack Obama
“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money.” LastsNatureRealizingWealthMoneyEnvironmentCuttingAirTreeFoodLateRiversAccountsEnvironmentalCaughtFishesBreatheSicknessToo LatePollutionEcologyStewardshipMother NatureBank AccountsMoney Isn't Everything Author:Alanis Obomsawin
“Nothing did more to spur the boom in stocks than the decision made by the New York Federal Reserve bank, in the spring of 1927, to cut the rediscount rate. Benjamin Strong, Governor of the bank, was chief advocate of this unwise measure, which was taken largely at the behest of Montagu Norman of the Bank of England....At the time of the Banks action I warned of its consequences....I felt that sooner or later the market had to break.” WorldMadeActionStrongFeltDecisionMoneyBreakDemocracyTakenCuttingNew YorkSpringConsequenceEnglandRateChiefsGovernorsReservesSooner Or LaterNew World OrderSpursFederal ReserveUnwiseDecisions Made Author:Bernard Baruch