“Americans have got to understand that we are paying present-day retirees with the taxes paid by young workers in America today. And that's a disgrace. It's an absolute disgrace and it's got to be fixed.” TodayAmericaYoungTaxesPaidAbsolutesWorkersFixedDisgracePresent DayAmerica Today Author:John McCain
“The Internet will not become a money machine until the banking industry figures out how to transfer money for free so you can charge USD 0.005 (half a cent) for some simple service like, say, reading a newspaper article you have searched for. With today's payment system, the cost of the transfer of the funds completely dwarf the cost of the service paid for. ... This situation, however, is what acutely prevents the Internet from taking off as a network for paid services.” TodayReadingSimpleHalfSituationFiguresIndustryInternetCostMachinesPaidNewspapersFundArticlesCentsBankingPaymentTransfersDwarfsDwarves Author:Erik Naggum
“If there is no cost to be paid for the indiscriminate dumping of pollution into the earth's atmosphere, then it should be a surprise to no one that today we will dump another 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet. ... We have to [act] this year, not next year. Mother Nature does not do bailouts.” IfsShouldYearsDoeTodayEarthMotherNextMillionsPlanetsCostPaidSurpriseAtmosphereGlobal WarmingPollutionShellsOur PlanetNext YearMother NatureDumpBailouts Author:Al Gore
“Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you will do there is to write "Tough and Competent" on your blackboards. It will never be erased. Each day when you enter the room these words will remind you of the price paid by Grissom, White, and Chaffee. These words are the price of admission to the ranks of Mission Control.” WritingFirstsTodayWhitePerfectRoomsOfficeToughPaidSafetyMeetingsMissionsEach DayAviationCompetentAdmissionBlackboard Author:Gene Kranz
“Today, there are three kinds of people: the haves, the have-nots, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves.” PeopleKindTodayFunnyThreeMoneyBusinessPaidCreditDebtFinance Author:Earl Wilson
“The manager, in today's world, doesn't get paid to be a steward of resources, a favored term not so many years ago. He or she gets paid for one and only one thing: to make things better (incrementally and dramatically), to change things, to act - today.” WorldYearsTodayTermOne ThingResourcesYears AgoPaidManagersStewardsToday's World Author:Tom Peters
“The period of Prohibition - called the noble experiment - brought on the greatest breakdown of law and order the United States has known until today. I think there is a lesson here. Do not regulate the private morals of people. Do not tell them what they can take or not take. Because if you do, they will become angry and antisocial and they will get what they want from criminals who are able to work in perfect freedom because they have paid off the police.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantStatesTodayAbleLawOrderPerfectUnitedKnownMoralUnited StatesPeriodsLessonsPaidPoliceAngryNobleCriminalsExperimentsBreakdownProhibitionLaw And OrderAntisocialPaid Off Book:Matters of fact and of fiction: essays, 1973-1976 Source: Matters of fact and of fiction: essays, 1973-1976
“The first step toward the management of disease was replacement of demon theories and humours theories by the germ theory. That very step, the beginning of hope, in itself dashed all hopes of magical solutions. It told workers that progress would be made stepwise, at great effort, and that a persistent, unremitting care would have to be paid to a discipline of cleanliness. So it is with software engineering today.” FirstsMadeWould BeCareTodayEffortStepsProgressHumourTheoryDisciplineDiseaseSolutionsPaidManagementWorkersDemonSoftwareEngineeringFirst StepsPersistentCleanlinessGermsReplacementsSoftware EngineeringGreat Effort Author:Fred Brooks
“The welfare state is predicate don collecting money from today's workers in order to pay for those who paid in before them. But today's workers don't have enough money to sustain the scheme, and there are too few of them to do so. As a result, virtually every welfare state in Europe, and many American states, like California are going broke.” StatesEnoughTodayOrderResultsPayEuropePaidWorkersBrokeCaliforniaWelfareSchemesCollectingWelfare State Author:Dennis Prager
“The general systems of money management [today] require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't. It's a terrible way to spend your life, but it's very well paid.” PeopleWayWellsTodayTerriblePaidManagementLike SomethingMoney Management Author:Charlie Munger
“Social Security should be phased out and ended altogether. ... Social Security in any form is morally irredeemable. We should be debating, not how to save Social Security, but how to end it - how to phase it out so as to best protect both the rights of those who have paid into it, and those who are forced to pay for it today. This will be a painful task. But it will make possible a world in which Americans enjoy far greater freedom to secure their own futures.” WorldShouldEndsTodayFormSocialEnjoyPayGreaterRightsSecurityProtectTasksPaidPainfulSecurePhasesSocial Security Author:Alex Epstein
“Contests were so pertinent that you had to think that way but today, it's not like that. You have your contest skaters, you have your video skaters, you have your skaters who don't like either of them, but they all are sponsored and get paid.” ThinkingWayTodayPaidVideoContestsSkaterPertinent Author:Christian Hosoi
“Today much of anti-biofuel "science" - including the false claim that biofuels need more energy to make than they contain - has been shown to be complete hogwash, bought and paid for by big oil.” NeedsHas BeensBigsTodayEnergyClaimsPaidIncludingOilBiofuelsBig OilHogwash Author:Josh Tickell
“Bernie Sanders talks about socialism in Scandinavia, and he's correct to point to the huge victories the working class has won there through struggle, such as socialized medicine, free college education, and paid family leave. But if you talk to working people in Sweden or Norway today, you will find out that many of those past gains have been eroded and some virtually eliminated, including massive under-funding of healthcare and other public services and a return to for-profit systems that are unaffordable to working class people.” PeopleIfsHas BeensTodayPastClassStruggleCollegeHugeReturnVictoryGainsPaidMedicineIncludingProfitSocialismMassiveHealthcareWorking ClassFundingPublic ServiceSwedenCollege EducationNorwaySocialized MedicineScandinavia Author:Kshama Sawant
“I often call Daptone the Motown and Stax of today. But in some ways it's different. At Motown, a lot of the musicians didn't get recognized, music got stolen, and people didn't get paid. Or the label would just throw them a pinch of money for their songs. That is one thing we're not doing. Anything anyone writes here, we get a percentage.” PeopleWayWritingDifferentTodaySongOne ThingMusicianPaidLabelsStolenPercentagesMotown Author:Sharon Jones
“I'm going to do everything I can to bring our policies in line with the way families live and work today by guaranteeing paid family leave and making child care affordable.” WayChildrenI CanCareTodayLinesPolicyPaidAffordableChild Care Author:Hillary Clinton
“With the Health Impact Fund, the innovation is paid for separately, through publicly funded health impact rewards, and the product is sold at the cost of production to all. Here, the cruel injustice of preventing the poor from buying at cost - evidenced by today's suppression of the trade in generic versions of patented medicines - would no longer be needed.” TodayPoorProductsNeededCostPaidInnovationTradeImpactMedicineRewardsInjusticeProductionsVersionsBuyingFundPreventingSuppressionGeneric Author:Thomas Pogge
“In the four decades after World War II, manufacturing jobs paid more than other jobs for given skills. But that is much less true today. Increased international competition has forced American manufacturers to reduce costs. As a result, the pay premium for low-skilled workers in manufacturing is smaller than it once was.” WorldWarTodayJobsGivenResultsPayFourCostSkillsLowsPaidCompetitionWorkersInternationalDecadesWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiManufacturingPremiumSkilled Workers Author:Christina Romer
“Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going, defending ourselves, activist judges. Newt Gingrich did all those things when he was speaker. We got tax relief. We got balanced budgets. We got, you know, job creation. We paid down our national debt.” KnowsCountryTodayJobsTalkingEconomyCreationJudgingTaxesPaidDebtBudgetsReliefActivistSpeakersBalancedNational DebtNewtsJob CreationBalanced Budget Author:J. C. Watts
“I was under the impression that I warned you that in London country ways will not do, Frederica!” “You did!” she retorted. “And although I can’t say that I paid much heed to your advice it so happens that I am accompanied today by my aunt!” “Who adds invisibility to her other accomplishments!” WayI CanCountryHappensTodayAdvicePaidAddLondonImpressionAccomplishmentAuntHeedInvisibility Author:Georgette Heyer
“With Blue here, he was beginning to feel as if possibly he'd overdone it with the helicopter. He wondered if it would make Blue feel better or worse to know that it was Helen's helicopter, that he hadn't paid anything today for the use of it. Probably worse. Remembering his vow to at least do no harm with his words, he kept his mouth shut.” IfsKnowsFeelsUseTodayRememberMouthsPaidBlueHarmFeel BetterVowHelicoptersHelen Book:The Raven Boys Source: The Raven Boys
“Contrast 1968, when the CEO of General Motors took home, in pay and benefits, about sixty-six times the amount paid to a typical GM worker. Today the CEO of Wal-Mart earns nine hundred times the wages of his average employee. Indeed, the wealth of the Wal-Mart founder's family in 2005 was estimated at about the same ($90 billion) as that of the bottom 40% of the US population: 120 million people.” PeopleHomeTodayWealthPayMillionsAmountSixBenefitsHundredPaidWorkersBottomAveragePopulationBillionsNineEmployeeContrastSixtyFoundersTypicalCeoWagesMotorGeneral Motors Book:Ill Fares the Land Source: Ill Fares the Land
“You're not being paid by how hard you work, but by what you accomplish. If you can't hack it, pack it. Our challenge today is to look forward, to write our own history.” IfsWritingLooksHardTodayChallengesArmyPaidAccomplishPacksHacks Author:William A. Connelly
“Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesnt help matters when prime-time TV has Murphy Brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes todays intelligent, highly paid professional woman, mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice.” ChildrenMatterCharacterHelpingTodayChoicesFatherSupportFailingTvsCallingImportancePaidIntelligentLifestyleBrownPrimeMurphyUnequivocalPrime TimeLifestyle ChoicesMurphy Brown Author:Dan Quayle
“There is an island fantasy A "Someday I'll," we'll never see When recession stops, inflation ceases Our mortgage is paid, our pay increases That Someday I'll where problems end Where every piece of mail is from a friend Where the children are sweet and already grown . . . . Most unhappy people . . . put happiness on "law away" And struggle through a blue today . . . . Life's most important revelation Is that the journey means more than the destination . . .” PeopleMeanChildrenImportantEndsProblemTodayLawPayFantasyStrugglePiecesJourneySweetIncreasePaidBlueCeaseUnhappyIslandsRevelationsSomedayDestinationMailInflationMortgageRecessionsHappy PeopleLife StruggleUnhappy PeopleToday Life Author:Denis Waitley