Expenses Quotes - Page 18

• The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but the expense account; not the Bomb, but the nuclear stalemate

  Isaac Asimov

  Important, Income, Nuclear

  Isaac Asimov (1972). “From earth to heaven”

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• The income tax is the biggest single intrusion suffered by the American people. It forces every worker to be a bookkeeper, to open his records to the government, to explain his expenses, to fear conviction for a harmless accounting error. Compliance wastes billions of dollars. It penalizes savings and creates an enormous drag on the U.S. economy. It is incompatible with a free society, and we aren’t libertarians if we tolerate it.

  Harry Browne

  Errors, Government, People

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• The goal is not to improve one measurement in isolation. The goal is to reduce operational expenses AND reduce inventories and increase throughput simultaneously.

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt

  Goal, Inventory, Measurement

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox (2016). “The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement”, p.84, Routledge

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• Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Others Happiness, Selfishness

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.243

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• All the keys to joy can be reduced to these two. Laugh but at no one's expense and love but without expectation.

  Pat McBride

  Keys, Two, Laughing

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• The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, — but generally to be obtained at your neighbor's expense.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Love Is, Glory, Neighbor

  John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace: The Economist”, p.16, 北戴河出版

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• With unfailing consistency, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of the poor and needy. Rather than strengthening democracies, U.S. leaders have overthrown numerous democratically elected governments or other populist regimes in dozens of countries ... whenever these nations give evidence of putting the interests of their people ahead of the interests of multinational corporate interests.

  Michael Parenti

  Country, Powerful, Government

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• I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it's never at the expense of the other guy.

  Bob Uecker

  Fun, Guy, Trying

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• Humans were made to work in sweet to earn a living. Those that try to get rich or live at the expense of others all get divine retribution somewhere along the line. That's the lesson. unfortunately we forget the lessons quickly and then we have to learn them all over again.

  Jet Black

  Sweet, Trying, Lessons

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• Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money to defray the expenses of their funerals, and their memories will be incrusted over with sublime and pleasing thoughts, as monuments of other men are overgrown with moss; for our Friends have no place in the graveyard.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Memories, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.203, Xist Publishing

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• With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem.

  Clay Shirky

  Data, Digital, Problem

  "Clay Shirky analyzes the newspaper Holocaust" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. March 14, 2009.

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• Where God guides He provides. He is not responsible for expenses not on His schedule. He does not foot the bill when we leave His itinerary.

  Vance Havner

  Feet, Doe, Schedules

  Vance Havner (2014). “Day by Day”, Solid Christian Books

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• Any consideration of the life and larger social existence of the modern corporate man begins and also largely ends with the effect of one all-embracing force. That is organization - the highly structured assemblage of men, and now some women, of which he is a part. It is to this, at the expense of family, friends, sex, recreation and sometimes health and effective control of alcoholic intake, that he is expected to devote his energies.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Sex, Men, Organization

  "Corporate Man". The New York Times, January 22, 1984.

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• If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country, Harry Truman would have promised to provide them with free missionaries fattened at the taxpayer's expense.

  H. L. Mencken

  Country, Harry Truman, Body

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• Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Class, Giving, Lazy

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2006). “Memoir on Pauperism: Does Public Charity Produce an Idle And Dependent Class of Society?”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These covering our land with officers, and opening our doors to their intrusions, had already begun that process of domiciliary vexation which, once entered, is scarcely to be restrained from reaching successively every article of produce and property.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Doors, Land, Office

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They observed that we talked loudly at table sometimes. They noticed that we looked out for expenses and got what we conveniently could out of a franc, and wondered where in the mischief we came from. In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Eye, Paris

  Mark Twain (1871). “The Innocents Abroad; Or, The New Pilgrim's Progress ...”, p.379

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• In the long run, stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Long, Liberty

  National Endowment for Democracy Address on the Middle East, delivered 6 November 2003, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington, D.C.

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• Government, not the oil industry, is the biggest 'profiteer' from oil. And it uses the tax revenue to expand its own authority at the expense of the individual, as it does with an endless number of other industries - including electric power, coal, lumber, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, aircraft, and agriculture. The Statist's intrusion to the free market is boundless.

  Mark Levin

  Government, Electric Power, Oil

  Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• The most politically painless way to hand out goodies, without taking responsibility for their costs, is to pass a law saying that somebody else must provide those goodies at their expense, while the politicians take credit for generosity and compassion.

  Thomas Sowell

  Responsibility, Compassion, Hands

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.93, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The expenses of government, having for their object the interest of all, should be borne by everyone, and the more a man enjoys the advantages of society, the more he ought to hold himself honored in contributing to those expenses.

  Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

  Men, Advantage, Should

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• England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Irritation, Would Be

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• What do intellectuals and opinion makers get from big government? An increasing number of cushy jobs in the bureaucracy, or in the government-subsidized sector, staffing the welfare regulatory state, and apologizing for its policies, as well as propagandizing for them among the public. To put it bluntly, intellectuals, theorists, pundits, media elites, etc. get to live a life which they could not attain on the free market, but which they can gain at taxpayer expense.

  Murray Rothbard

  Jobs, Government, Media

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• Once Congress establishes that one person can live at the expense of another, it pays for everyone to try to do so.

  Walter E. Williams

  Trying, That One Person, Pay

  Walter E. Williams (2013). “Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays”, p.107, Hoover Press

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• I don't have extravagant tastes or expenses - like with cars, clothes, or whatever.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Clothes, Car, Taste

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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