Expenses Quotes - Page 27

• The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand. It doesn't magically allow you to build businesses by turning investors' money into operating expenses indefinitely. The money always runs out eventually.. the Internet doesn't change that, as we have seen.

  Andy Grove

  Change, Running, Money

  "Andy Grove's Rational Exuberance". Interview with John Heilemann, www.wired.com. June 1, 2001.

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• Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense. A composition for cheapness and not excellence of workmanship is the most frequent and certain cause of the rapid decay and entire destruction of arts and manufacturers.

  Josiah Wedgwood

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Art

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• My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but you really need to be a little bit arrogant to think that what you have to say is good enough to justify the expense of hundreds of thousands - now millions of dollars - to make an episode of the TV show.

  David Gerrold

  Stars, Writing, Thinking

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• Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.

  Gary Hamel

  Failing

  Gary Hamel (2012). “What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation”, p.135, John Wiley & Sons

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• War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view 'realistically'; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent – war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.

  Susan Sontag

  Peace, War, Eye

  "Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors".

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• My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense.

  Hugh Jackman

  Nike, Growing Up, Father

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• If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.

  Alan King

  Thinking, Ifs

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• I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like.

  Moby

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Interview With Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. June 2, 1999.

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• I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.

  Rachel Nichols

  Car, Extravagance, Justify

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• Many Americans simply don't want the pinheads in Washington or the various state capitals to be telling us how to live. But we are absolutely going in that direction. President Obama is hell-bent on imposing a bureaucracy that levels all playing fields at great expense in coin and in freedom.

  Bill O'Reilly

  President, Coins, Levels

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• 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.

  Adam Smith

  Progressive Taxation, Rich, Economics

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.355

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• The Council of the Royal Society is a collection of men who elect each other to office and then dine together at the expense of this society to praise each other over wine and give each other medals.

  Charles Babbage

  Wine, Men, Giving

  Charles Babbage (2013). “On the Principles and Development of the Calculator and Other Seminal Writings”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• Ours is an age that's often obsessed with knowledge at the expense of wisdom.

  Mal Fletcher

  Age, Obsessed

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• Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Clever, Two, People

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• The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd to say: "I hereby make a covenant with you which is wholly at your expense and wholly to my advantage; I will respect it so long as I please and you shall respect it as long as I wish.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Long, People

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• I imagine, like all his predecessors, Barak Obama would like to achieve greatness in bringing peace in the Middle East. I hope it will not be at the expense of Israel.

  Elie Wiesel

  Greatness, Israel, Middle East

  Source: www.algemeiner.com

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• I started out in stand-up, so it's very satisfying to make people laugh, but it usually means at your own expense.

  Debra Winger

  Mean, People, Laughing

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• When you start using more expensive cameras, everything around it gets more expensive, which is something we hadn't necessarily taken into account beforehand. Your lighting package gets way more expensive, and then coloring it is going to be more expensive. So I think all of that will essentially be cushioning our camera package. Budgets beget budgets, and expenses beget expenses.

  Katie Aselton

  Taken, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Corporations can deduct their planes, all their office expenses, their machinery, their computers and Teleprompters and whatever else they have. They can deduct their yachts, they can deduct their limousines, their planes, everything.

  Malachy McCourt

  Office, Corporations, Computer

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I feel like this song [Yello, "Oh Yeah"] was probably done in a couple of minutes in a studio. There was probably no thought behind it; they were just playing with some samples and threw it together. I feel like there's no dream behind the song. Usually there's a dream or some kind of passion attached to a song. This song feels very empty. It made a lot of money for the songwriters but at the expense of culture.

  Margaret Cho

  Dream, Song, Couple

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense

  John Wilmot

  Interest In Life, Libertine, Experiments

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• Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.

  Ellen G. White

  Loss, Soul, Favors

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• Moral cowardice at the expense of the vulnerable unborn is both wrong and pathetic.

  Russell D. Moore

  Moral, Vulnerable, Cowardice

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• People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying, 'Why do we have to go to great expense for these people?'

  Major Owens

  Running, People, Use

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• We will reverse course on the heavy hand of regulation, discarding Dodd-Frank and any other regulations that advance a political agenda at the expense of jobs and investment on Main Street.

  Rick Perry

  Jobs, Hands, Political

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