Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Armstrong

We started out with a 'no.' This is not going to change. We had the burden of proving to them this was a good decision to make.

Carol Moseley Braun

I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.

Cheryl Richardson

There is nothing heavier than the burden of potential

Charles M. Schulz

There is no heavier burden than an unfulfilled potential.

Richard Davis

Whether we like it or not the burden is placed back on the individual investor. The current model serves those interested, savvy investors.

Dennis Phillips

We're going to pay user fees for water and sewer and it's my understanding the burden of extension lines will be on the shoulders of the developers, not the city,

Marc Schenker

Worldwide, the need for public health efforts to reduce the disease burden from infectious and emerging diseases is urgent and enormous.

Robert Cooper

We're going to have to get the money somewhere, and you'll have to shift that burden from property tax to sales and income tax, but I think it can be done.

Tom DeLay

A country founded on freedom should not maintain a tax code that arbitrarily places an extra burden on husbands and wives,

Bill Gates

Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.

Houssaye Houssaye

Friendship lives on its income, love devours its capital.

Rev. Pierce

They are paying to stay at the Coachman, so they have some source of income.

Richard Browne

It's a big number, it's about 4 percent of personal income,

Tom Golisano

I've been paying a lot of money in state income taxes, and I've been happy to do it, but when this last thing happened, this 50 percent increase in the tax rate, it was just too much.

John Buchanan

A U.S. taxpayer is subject to income tax on their worldwide income, ... These schemes do not give you any relief from that legally.

David Resler

People are still planning to spend, and today's income numbers tell us that they have the wherewithal to do so.

Paul Warner

During that time, Oregon's personal income went up 45.2 percent, so taxes as a share of income has actually declined.

Koji Kobayashi

The size of the income surplus is approaching that of the trade surplus, and this is a trend worth watching.

Charles Caleb Colton

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Charles Spurgeon

economy is half the battle of life; it is notso hard to earn money as to spend it well.

Alan Watts

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

Alan Watts

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

Alan Paton

And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.

Alan Greenspan

As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.

Alan Greenspan

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.

Catherynne M. Valente

Family is a transitive property.

Janice Moore

It's just unacceptable. Our property values will decline.

David McIntosh

They'd say, 'I like what you're doing about property taxes, but let's do something about gas,'

Dan Quinn

I told my wife this would be the only lakefront property we'd ever have,

Steven Jeffrey

This is very important, especially since we have had to give up (much) of the property tax.

W. Hull

They have no right to own property in the United States because they have no right to be here in the first place.

Randy Hall

at least we know how much the property is worth ... it's worth $2.3 million.

Samuel Richardson

As long as my property taxes are high, I have to raise rents or make adjustments.

Cy Thannikary

Property tax rebates are a Band-Aid on the problem.

Peter Reynolds

When we have a special event, our sales triple,

Shawn Roop

At first, all I wanted the Web site to do was $50 in sales a day, then $100 -- now I look for $350 a day.

Bob Bertini

There is still some sales impact, particularly on the West Coast.

Matt Groening

Sales man: You got time for lunch?Homer: Yeah..but I usually have 2 or 3.Salesman: You like thai?Homer: Yeah, ya like shirt?

Joel Rassman

The stock sales have nothing to do with the state of the market. It has everything to do with diversification.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Robert Klein

Fear is the greatest salesman.

Richard Foreman

We really won't see the story until we get into the spring and see the spring sales activity.

Marcel Dionne

There was tremendous emotion. Every shift was so emotional.

David Barber

This is a very significant result, and it's not some sort of trend that's going to shift back the other way.

Marty Turco

You play it one game, one shift at a time.

Tony Johnson

We shifted because we didn't want them sold off individually. Then we could end up with absentee landlords.

Jamie Russell

You have to give Wisconsin credit. I thought they outworked us shift in, shift out.

Matthew Rhys

I'm 33 now and I seem to have hit a fitness plane. Shifting the wobbly bits isn't as easy as it used to be.

Robert McGrath

Somehow society shifted and took these things seriously.

Ken Wilber

The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon.

Brad D. Smith

The world has shifted to the palm of our hand, or a tablet. We hadn't been investing in 'Quicken' that way.

Alan Sugar

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

Calvin Trillin

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

Steve Hunter

This is the most regressive tax thats ever been imposed.

Charles Dickens

It was as true as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.

David R. Ellis

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

Robert James

The taxpayers have spoken. They want a change.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

Jason Chaffetz

You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

Martin Buxbaum

Did you ever think what the word 'vote' means? To me it means: 'Voice of Taxpayers Everywhere'.