“The immediate cause of the increase of population is the excess of the births above deaths; and the rate of increase, or the period of doubling, depends upon the proportion which the excess of the births above the deaths bears to the population.” CausesDependsBearsBirthPeriodsIncreaseRatePopulationProportionExcess Book:ON POPULATION THREE ESSAYS Source: ON POPULATION THREE ESSAYS
“The zero-income-tax-rate states have far faster growth in tax revenues than did the states with highest income tax rate over this period.” StatesGrowthPeriodsTaxesHighestRateIncomeFasterZeroRevenueIncome Tax Author:Arthur Laffer
“There are several states that move from Karl Marx-like policies to Adam Smith-like policies and back again in a weekend. So for the states with huge volatility in their income tax policies over time, the differences in growth rates in those periods are really amazingly consistent with tax rates really mattering.” StatesMovingGrowthDifferencesPolicyHugePeriodsTaxesRateIncomeConsistentWeekendAdamIncome TaxBack AgainReally AmazingVolatility Author:Arthur Laffer
“The discounting presumably is to be done for each period of time at that rate of interest which represents the alternative cost of employing capital in the occupation in question; that is, at the rate which the entrepreneur could obtain in other investments” DoneInterestPeriodsCostEntrepreneurInvestmentRateAlternativesOccupationEmploying Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“The prevailing view has been that the market will earn a high rate of return if the holding period is long enough, but entry point is what really matters.” IfsLongHas BeensMatterEnoughViewsReturnPeriodsRateEntryPrevailing Author:Seth Klarman
“If that's true and the rate stays like that for another 40 years, there's a good probability that somebody who is active in the credit economy for that period of time might be a victim. But that's not a given.” IfsYearsMightGivenEconomyPeriodsVictimRateCreditActiveProbability Author:Keith Anderson
“The gross profits in many workouts appear quite small. It's a little like looking for parking meters with some time left on them. However, the predictability coupled with a short holding period produces quite decent average annual rates of return after allowance for the occasional substantial loss.” LittlesLeftLossProduceReturnPeriodsRateAverageProfitDecentWorkoutGrossOccasionalParkingMeterAnnualsAllowancePredictabilityTime LeftParking Meters Author:Warren Buffett
“I want you to say to me right from the start, "We are here to serve customers. We're not here for me to make a lot of money. We're not here to bet on interest rates or credit spreads. We are here to serve our customers really well over a long period of time, and that's how you build a successful business." And so I want to see that, too, you know?” KnowsWantWellsLongInterestSuccessfulPeriodsRateSpreadCreditCustomersLots Of MoneyI Want YouSuccessful BusinessInterest RateLong Periods Of Time Author:Jamie Dimon
“I can't possibly predict precisely what the unemployment rate will be at the end of one year. I can tell you that over a period of four years, by virtue of the policies that we'd put in place, we'd get the unemployment rate down to 6%, and perhaps a little lower.” YearsWellsLittlesI CanEndsStatesShowsJobsGrowthUnitedUnited StatesVirtueFourSeeingPolicyKeysDependsPeriodsCompetitionRateEmployeeFour YearsGlobesUnemploymentUnemployment RateJob Growth Author:Mitt Romney
“I think the music industry, for instance, is such a huge, multibazillion-dollar industry and it's become very, very savvy. There's a very short grace period in which actual human rebellion or resistance can thrive before it's co-opted by these huge companies. And all of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.” ThinkingHumansCultureCompanyGraceOur LivesYouthHugeIndustryPeriodsDollarsRateResistanceInstanceCorporateThese DaysThriveRebellionMusic IndustryFuriousSavvyParcelEncroachmentYouth Culture Author:Ani DiFranco