Best Revenue Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 7

Source: Instructive and Entertaining Lessons for Youth: With Rules for Reading with Propriety, Illustrated by Examples: Designed for Use in Schools and Families

“Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay for the effort from its accumulated reserves and current revenues. Almost all war-making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens who have other uses for their resources.”

Source: Roads from Past to Future

“Liberals love to say things like, "We're just asking everyone to pay their fair share." But government is not about asking. It is about telling. The difference is fundamental. It is the difference between making love and being raped, between working for a living and being a slave. The Internal Revenue service is not asking anybody to do anything. It confiscates your assets and puts you behind bars if you don't pay.”

Source: Barbarians Inside the Gates--and Other Controversial Essays

“The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families and of Common-wealths. Almost all Governments have therefore made it a principal Object of their Attention, to establish and endow with proper Revenues, such Seminaries of Learning, as might supply the succeeding Age with Men qualified to serve the Publick with Honour to themselves, and to their Country.”

Source: The Portable Benjamin Franklin

“Those that think that wealth is the proper thing for them cannot give up their revenues; those that seek distinction cannot give up the thought of fame; those that cleave to power cannot give the handle of it to others. While they hold their grasp of those things, they are afraid of losing them. When they let them go, they are grieved and they will not look at a single example, from which they might perceive the folly of their restless pursuits - such men are under the doom of heaven.”

Thinking Men Giving Looks Might Heaven Wealth Example Fame Giving Up Losing Pursuit Handle Perceive Folly Distinction Not Giving Up Restless Revenue Doom

Author:Zhuangzi

“We have tax revenue that's going to allow us to look in a much more comprehensive way at intervening in addiction.”

Way Looks Taxes Addiction Marijuana Revenue Comprehensive Intervening

Author:John Hickenlooper

“We need to have a strong economy that can create employment opportunities and that can also produce the revenue that we need to defend our country at home and abroad.”

Needs Country Home Opportunity Strong Economy Produce Our Country Employment Revenue Strong Economy Employment Opportunities

Author:Bob Menendez

“I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year.”

Years Believe Grows Half Taxes Sunset Afterlife Cents Revenue One Half Sales Tax

Author:Mike Easley

“To be successful and grow your business and revenues, you must match the way you market your products with the way your prospects learn about and shop for your products.”

Way Grows Successful Products Marketing Video Shops Being Successful Revenue Prospects Digital Marketing Business Marketing

Book:Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs

Source: Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs

“President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission.”

Kind Two President Half Plans Approach Increase Dollars Debt Spending Decades President Obama Balanced Revenue Reduction Bipartisan

Author:William J. Clinton

“This vice brings in one hundred million francs in taxes every year. I will certainly forbid it at once - as soon as you can name a virtue that brings in as much revenue.”

Years Names Millions Virtue Taxes Hundred Vices Smoking Revenue Tobacco

Author:Napoleon III

“He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue; if ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by the right divine, it was Mohammed, for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports.”

Ifs Men Support Divine Standing Army Instruments Islam Fixed Pope Revenue Palaces Pretension Legion Bodyguard

Author:Benjamin Smith

“Every successful business creates or provides something of value that other people want or need at a price they're willing to pay, in a way that satisfies the purchaser's needs and expectations and provides the business sufficient revenue to make it worthwhile for the owners to continue operation.”

People Way Want Needs Motivational Values Business Pay Successful Willing Expectations Operations Sufficient Owners Worthwhile Revenue Successful Business Motivational Business Purchasers

Author:Josh Kaufman

“I've set aside a nice chunk of my advertising revenue each month for giveaways, like a KitchenAid mixer. I like buying them for the audience, because without the audience I wouldn't have the blog or the revenue in the first place.”

Firsts Audience Nice Months Advertising Buying Revenue Blogs Blogging Chunks Each Month

Author:Ree Drummond

“There's a lot of money to pay for this ... the oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years...We're dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.”

Years Two War Country Three Courses Next Pay Oil Billions Finance Three Years Lots Of Money Revenue Iraq War Reconstruction

Author:Paul Wolfowitz

“The investment in our mining industry has been very positive for Australia but we need to be doing more if we want, as I do, more revenue for our defence - which I think is under-resourced - our police, our elderly, our hospitals, roads, infrastructure and communication, to be able to repay our debts and enable sustainable job opportunities for existing and future generations.”

“[The Internal Revenue Code is] about 10 times the size of the Bible and, unlike the Bible, contains no good news”

Taxes News Size Code Internals Good News Taxation Revenue

Author:Don Nickles

“I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside.”

Taxes Taxation Revenue Pennies

Author:Ken Dodd

“Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement'. Not so. No one was fooled”

Has Beens Funny Money Party Calling Taxes Increase Accused Revenue Fooled Funny Money Enhancement Tax Increases

Author:Dan Quayle

“No man in this country is under the smallest obligation, moral or otherwise, so to arrange his legal relations to his business or his property as to enable the Inland Revenue to put the largest shovel into his stores.”

Men Country Moral Economics Relation Property Stores Obligation Smallest Revenue Shovels

Author:James Avon Clyde, Lord Clyde

“Our goal is long-term growth in revenue and absolute profit - so we invest aggressively in future innovation while tightly managing our short-term costs.”

Long Goal Growth Term Cost Absolutes Innovation Profit Long Term Revenue Short Term Business Growth

Author:Larry Page

“Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.”

States Philosophy Political Fine Type Economics Punishment Efficient Revenue Imprisonment Offenders

Author:Gary Becker

“This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to draw from each his revenues, by imposing a tax to be levied yearly. But everyone from whose part the river tore anything away, had to go to him to notify what had happened; he then sent overseers who had to measure out how much the land had become smaller, in order that the owner might pay on what was left, in proportion to the entire tax imposed. In this way, it appears to me, geometry originated, which passed thence to Hellas.”

Way Giving Might Science Order Left Pay Happened Land Kings Taxes Equal Draws Rivers Size Proportion Owners Divided Egypt Revenue Measurement Geometry Imposing Nomenclature Notify

Author:Herodotus

“I argued last year on my shared blog that selling the right to immigrate would be the best approach to legal immigration. Among other benefits, the revenue from immigrants' payments could reduce taxes. Paying for the right to immigrate would also negate the argument that immigrants get a free ride when they gain health care and other benefits. Moreover, making immigrants pay would attract the type of immigrants who came much earlier in American history: young men and women who are reasonably skilled and want to make a long-term commitment to the United States.”

“Listing the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act could harm bear conservation efforts by eliminating revenues from the carefully-regulated sport hunting of polar bears by Americans and the importation of polar bear meat and trophies into the U.S. As hunting by non-Americans would replace hunting by Americans, nothing would be accomplished in terms of reducing the number of polar bears killed, but the revenue currently generated by American sport hunters for conservation and research efforts would be eliminated.”

“It will be well to advert to the proportion between the objects that will require a federal provision in respect to revenue; and those which will require a state provision. We shall discover that the former are altogether unlimited; and that the latter are circumscribed within very moderate bounds.”

Wells States Objects Bounds Former Proportion Latter Unlimited Revenue Moderates Provision Adverts Federalism

Book:The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution

Source: The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution

“Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to those who watch the change and can trace its consequences; a harvest reared not by themselves but by the toils and cares of the great body of their fellow citizens. This is a state of things in which it may be said with some truth that laws are made for the few not for the many.”

Source: The Federalist: On the New Constitution; Written in 1788, by Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Jay, and Mr. Madison

“Manufacturing establishments not only occasion a positive augmentation of the produce and revenue of the society . . . they contribute essentially to rendering them greater than they could possibly be, without such establishments. These circumstances are . . . greater scope for the diversity of talents and dispositions which discriminate men from each other.”

Men Greater Talent Produce Circumstances Diversity Occasions Establishment Commerce Disposition Revenue Scope Manufacturing Rendering

Book:Report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, on the Subject of Manufactures: Presented to the House of Representatives, December 5, 1791

Source: Report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, on the Subject of Manufactures: Presented to the House of Representatives, December 5, 1791

“It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their own limit, which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end purposed - that is, an extension of the revenue.”

Ends Security Limits Taxes Advantage Articles Excess Consumption Extensions Taxation Revenue

Author:Alexander Hamilton

“It must be observed that our revenues are raised almost wholly on imported goods.”

Raised Goods Taxation Revenue

Book:Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence

Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence

“There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political economy, so much as the business of taxation. The man who understands those principles best will be least likely to resort to oppressive expedients, or sacrifice any particular class of citizens to the procurement of revenue. It might be demonstrated that the most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.”