Revenue Quotes

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

  Scott Adams

  Business, Smart, Differences

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• We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts

  Alan Keyes

  Cutting, Government, Cards

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• Thrift is of great revenue.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Thrift

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• If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Yield, Taxation, Taxes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.46

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• Government expands to absorb revenue - and then some.

  Tom Wicker

  Government, Murphys Law

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• What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.

  Thomas Paine

  Names, Taxation, Firsts

  Thomas Paine (2014). “Selected Writings of Thomas Paine”, p.276, Yale University Press

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• Companies that get confused, that think their goal is revenue or stock price or something. You have to focus on the things that lead to those.

  Tim Cook

  Confused, Thinking, Goal

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• It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus.

  John F. Kennedy

  Running, Cutting, Long

  Address to the Economic Club of New York, delivered 14 December 1962, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• For every dollar of revenue generated by gambling, taxpayers must pay at least $3 in increased criminal justice costs, social welfare expenses, high regulatory costs, and increased infrastructure expenditures

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Justice, Dollars

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• We cannot build county councils based on one single constituency. It doesn't make sense because it does not have a sufficient revenue base to be able to provide the services that county councils are required to provide.

  Raila Odinga

  Doe, Able, Council

  Source: concernedkenyan.blogspot.com

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• 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.

  Marco Rubio

  Government, Discipline, People

  FaceBook post by Senator Marco Rubio from Jul 07, 2011

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• Don’t optimize for conversions, optimize for revenue.

  Neil Patel

  Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Conversion

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• The masses, in their capacity as consumers, ultimately determine everybody's revenues and wealth.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Wealth, Capacity, Mass

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• We understand the need to balance our short- and longer-term needs because our revenue is the engine that funds all our innovation. But over time, our emerging high-usage products will likely generate significant new revenue streams for Google as well as for our partners, just as search does today.

  Larry Page

  Google, Innovation, Balance

  "Larry Page Just Put Out A Big Manifesto - Read The Full Thing Here" by Matt Lynley, www.businessinsider.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Retaining 'Monday Night Football' simply did not make smart financial sense for ABC. We could not reconcile the fees against the revenue. We love football at ABC. It's been a love affair for 36 years. It will go down in the history of sports television, being created on ABC and with this magnificent run. But at this point, given the success we're having with our entertainment product and the financials, we deemed that this was the proper move for us. We're not looking back .

  George Bodenheimer

  Sports, Football, Running

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• The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues.

  William Vickrey

  Impact, Government, Poor

  William Spencer Vickrey (2004). “Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey”, Edward Elgar Pub

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• 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.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Average, Years

  "Deficits Make You Poorer". www.lewrockwell.com. March 15, 2005.

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• 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.

  James Avon Clyde, Lord Clyde

  Country, Men, Moral

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• It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?

  Adam Braun

  Office Space, Mean, School

  "Three Months Later - Learnings from the Greg Mortensen Controversy" by Adam Braun, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2011.

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• The ear and the eye are the mind's receivers; but the tongue is only busy in expending the treasures received. It, therefore, the revenues of the mind be uttered as fast or faster than they are received, it must needs be bare, and can never lay up for purchase.

  Joseph Hall

  Eye, Mind, Needs

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• Right now the problem in Thailand is we have high debt, but we don't know how to earn the new source of revenue back to Thailand. This is my job.

  Yingluck Shinawatra

  Jobs, Debt, Thailand

  "Yingluck Shinawatra denies she's Thaksin's puppet". Interview with Zoe Daniel, www.radioaustralia.net.au. March 19, 2012.

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• The occupation of the stock-jobber yields no new or useful product; consequently having no product of his own to give in exchange, he has no revenue to subsist upon, but what he contrives to make out of the unskilfulness or ill-fortune of gamesters like himself.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Yield, Giving, Occupation

  Jean Baptiste Say (1854). “A treatise on political economy, or, the production, distribution, and consumption of wealth”, p.481

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• The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty.

  Thomas Paine

  Christian, Jesus, Church

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• Those who have once got an ascendancy, and possessed themselves of all the resources of the nation, their revenues and offices, have immense means for retaining their advantage.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Office, Advantage

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”, p.400

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• We don't have a tax revenue problem in Washington, we have a spending problem in Washington.

  Paul Ryan

  Problem, Spending, Taxes

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