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Quotes About Finance

I think that, every time you see the word EBITDA, you should substitute the words "bullshit earnings.
~ Charles T. Munger
AMAZONGOOGLEFACE ANNOUNCES INTENT TO ACQUIRE DISNEYAPPLESOFT The deal would result in a combined company worth approximately $97.3 quadrillion. "This will be good for consumers," said Jeff Bezos, CEO of AmazonGoogleFace, speaking from the company's offices on an icy dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt.
~ Charles Yu
There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.
~ Chester Bowles
When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.
~ Chi Chi Rodriguez
The best things in life are free, but sooner or later the government will find a way to tax them.
~ Author Unknown
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
~ Herman Wouk
You are going to need sales taxes, both Federal and State, income tax, and a lot of other kinds. It's a great country but you can't live in it for nothing.
~ Will Rogers (1879–1935)
People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.
~ Robert Half, unverified
Back then, government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
~ Ronald Reagan, 1986
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
~ Calvin Coolidge
The crime of taxation is not in the taking of it, it's in the way that it's spent.
~ Will Rogers (1879–1935)
Well, the good old days with most of us was when we didn't earn enough to pay an income tax.
~ Will Rogers, 1935
There's a book that tells you where you should go on your vacation. It's called your checkbook.
~ Author Unknown
Put a good tax on beer and that would take care of the unemployment fund.
~ Will Rogers
There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.
~ David Letterman
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
~ H. L. Mencken
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
~ H. L. Mencken
The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision.
~ Haley Barbour
Sound money and free banking are not impossible; they are merely illegal. Freedom of money and freedom of banking... are the principles that must guide our steps.
~ Hans F. Sennholz
Make the loan for thirty thousand dollars," I said.
~ Harold Robbins
If the dollars you lose in taxes are important to you, then what about the dollars you may be spending to perpetuate boxes you could get out of?
~ Harry Browne
Tell her the three keys to wisdom: not believing all you hear, not spending all you have, and not sleeping all you want. These will be difficult for her until she graduates from college.
~ Harry H. Harrison Jr.
A bank book makes good reading — better than some novels.
~ Harry Lauder
I've had such a great track record in making a huge profit when the movies are smaller.
~ Harvey Weinstein