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“Only the federal government has the power to spend beyond its current revenue. It shouldn't do that when the economy is at full employment. But it's an essential step for an economy mired in recession.”

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Author:Robert H. Frank

“Bureaucratic systems are not set up to be what we refer to as human service organizations. They were established to collect revenue and maintain law and order and they used a law and order approach in providing family planning services.”

Humans Law Used Order Approach Organization Planning Providing Revenue Law And Order Family Planning Human Service

Author:Ruth Simmons

“Now, in economic crises times, the kind of things you're looking at is it's generally harder to get capital, revenue growth may be more, revenue lines may be unstable or growth may be less easy to predict that you're going to get to. And so what you do is you take a certain conservative approach of when, as all entrepreneurs should do, you plan for both good luck and bad luck, you put extra time on, "Okay, if I have bad luck, what do I do about that?"”

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Author:Reid Hoffman

“One of the really key things to look at in terms of crafting strategy when you're in an economic crises is how do you maximize essentially your liquidity position? Your ability to both take kind of profits and revenues and business and then convert that into a stronger lead. And so those companies that can do that can actually, you know, get a march on their competitors.”

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Author:Reid Hoffman

“Liberia has to take primary responsibility for its own reform agenda. But our resources are limited. We have to attract the private sector to get jobs to our people that will enable us to raise the government revenue, but to do that we have to build infrastructure. It's a very complex problem of development we are facing here.”

People Problem Government Jobs Responsibility Development Resources Raises Complexes Reform Primaries Agendas Revenue Infrastructure Private Sector Complex Problems

Author:Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

“The biggest chance you can take in life is by not taking any chances at all. It's important, but music is my heart and this is what makes me the most revenue, so be grit, don't quit.”

Heart Important Life Is Chance My Heart Music Is Quitting Revenue Grit

Author:E-40

“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.”

People Art School Asks Modern Information Amount Periods Ask Me Museums Desks Entering Revenue Membership Art School Modern Art Fundraising

Author:Jeff Koons

“Tyra the businesswoman is very close to - and I hate third person, but you said it, oh, chiiild, you said it - but me the businessperson and me the person: very similar. I can be in a business meeting and be all 'Wooo!' and 'Oh, child!' and still be talking revenues and profits and cash flows.”

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Author:Tyra Banks

“The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue.”

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Author:James Monroe

“Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.”

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Author:Scott Adams

“In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.”

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Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“Every time Washington regulators pass down another heavy-handed rule or levy another hefty fine, Colorado loses potential jobs, revenue, and economic security.”

Jobs Loses Economic Security Fine Heavy Revenue Colorado Regulators Economic Security

Author:Bob Beauprez

“For my constituents, owning a home is the culmination of many years of hard work and the realization of the American Dream. At no time should a local entity take those years of hard work solely to increase their tax revenue.”

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Author:Solomon Ortiz

“Number one, you can sell before you buy. I call it reverse e-commerce. You take a picture, you list it for sale, you sell it, you collect the revenue, then you go buy it and send it to the customer.”

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Author:Marc Ostrofsky

“When oil and gas prices went up dramatically and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska.”

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Author:Sarah Palin

“Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.”

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Author:Leon Panetta

“You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country and you're gonna get 'em. You're gonna stick it to those rich people. But guess what? You may not get anymore revenue. You may not get anymore economic growth. But you can say, 'I stuck it to the rich people.'”

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Author:Rand Paul

“When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.”

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Author:Ron Paul

“Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.”

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Author:Mike Pence

“The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington, D.C. after the tax cuts took effect.”

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Author:Mike Pence

“Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when Ronald Reagan cut marginal tax rates, when President Bush imposed those tax cuts, they actually generated economic growth. They expanded the economy. They expand tax revenues.”

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Author:Mike Pence

“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.”

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Author:John Podhoretz

“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.”

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Author:Eric Ries

“You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.”

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Author:David Rockefeller

“We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo.”

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Author:Eric Schmidt

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

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Author:Jeff Bezos

“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.”

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Author:Robert H. Schuller

“Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually.”

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Author:George Soros

“The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction.”

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Author:Thomas Sowell

“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.”

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Author:Eliot Spitzer

“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.”

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Author:Tom Stoppard

“Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer.”

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Book:Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ

Source: Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ

“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.”

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Author:John Sununu

“The reason advertising is governed by fear, after all, is that most agencies rely on just a few clients to bring in the lion's share of their revenues.”

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Author:James Surowiecki

“Unlike most government programs, Social Security and, in part, Medicare are funded by payroll taxes dedicated specifically to them. Some of the tax revenue pays for current benefits; anything that's left over goes into trust funds for the future. The programs were designed this way for political reasons.”

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

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Author:Sara Blakely

“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.”

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Author:Mary J. Blige

“The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues.”

Art Country School Taxes Dues Unhappy Irony Height Hitting Revenue Funding Recessions Steep Glee

Author:James Wolcott

“My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.”

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Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“Hollywood is not known as a culture of grace. Dog-eat-dog is more like it. People love you one day and hate you the next. Personal value is very much attached to box office revenues and the unpredictable and often cruel winds of fashion.”

Source: One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.”

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Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“Bill Door was impressed. Miss Flitworth could actually give the word "revenue", which had two vowels and one diphthong, all the peremptoriness of the word "scum.”

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble”

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Book:The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel

Source: The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel

“But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so.”

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Book:Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression

Source: Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression

“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.”

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Author:James Buchan

“Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain unresolved the revenue stream will keep flowing.”

Long Fear Knowing Conflict Divorce Lawyer Streams Clients Revenue Divorced After Divorce Happy Divorce Stoke Anger And Fear Divorce Lawyers

Author:Craig Ferguson

“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.”

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Author:Jeb Bush

“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.”

Source: Finding the Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent

“It was wonderful love that Christ should rather die for us than for the angels that fell. They were creatures of a more noble extract, and in all probability might have brought greater revenues of glory to God; yet that Christ should pass by those golden vessels, and make us clods of earth into stars of glory -- Oh, the hyperbole of Christ's love!”

Should Might Earth Dies Stars Christ Greater Wonderful Creatures Glory Angel Noble Golden Probability Revenue Vessel Glory Of God Hyperbole Wonderful Love

Author:Thomas Watson

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