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Quotes About Revenue

It is a myth that higher taxes lead to less demand and slower growth. In the first three decades after World War II, US top tax rates on the wealthy were never below 70 percent.
~ Robert Reich
It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it.
~ Wilfrid Laurier
If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
~ Jack Keane
If you look at firms like General Electric or other large companies, they don't just do one thing; they do many different things to generate sources of revenue.
~ Jan Koum
I've said this over the years publicly - this is not a lucrative business. My goal every year is to break even with the White Sox.
~ Jerry Reinsdorf
Pau Gasol is extremely popular in Spain. I don't know how much he sells, but I get nothing in Spain. The money goes to the league, and they use it for whatever they choose to use it for to run the league.
~ Michael Heisley
It is easier to increase profits by cutting the expenses in many cases than it is to increase profits by increasing sales.
~ Napoleon Hill
It netted a 4.5% revenue
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Your revenue depends on your continuous efforts more than on the quality of your decisions.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
How much the clubs were responsible for propelling Mickey and how much Mickey was responsible for propelling the clubs is difficult to determine, but the promotion took off immediately and kept growing, giving theaters revenue from Saturday matinees, parents a three-hour respite from their children, the film industry a beacon of wholesomeness to which they could point to deflect critics, and Walt Disney a powerful means of promoting his creation and himself.
~ Neal Gabler
Broadly speaking, says to Thornton, the Boston University historian, "slaves were the only form of private, revenue-producing property recognized in African law.
~ Charles C. Mann
In general, economists tend to favor taxes that are broad, simple, and fair. A simple tax is easily understood and collected;
~ Charles Wheelan
La mayor parte del dinero proviene de las ventas más pequeñas».
~ Chris Anderson
Google is not a media company by any traditional definition of the word, but it makes its billions from the media business model.
~ Chris Anderson
De pronto, la popularidad ya no tiene el monopolio de la rentabilidad.
~ Chris Anderson
Look at all the Misfits products that came out. We never made a dime off it.
~ Jerry Only
When I think of revenue growth, I think of the words 'mix' and 'shift.'
~ Ginni Rometty
What I said when Otter Creek came up is that we in Montana have a history of giving away our resources. We need to make sure Montana is getting its share.
~ Steve Bullock
Less revenue, more people, more freight, more gridlock - that is not a formula for success.
~ Anthony Foxx
Under these escalating wartime income tax rates, the number of people reporting taxable incomes of more than $300,000— a huge sum in the money of that era— declined from well over a thousand in 1916 to fewer than three hundred in 1921. The total amount of taxable income earned by people making over $300,000 declined by more than four-fifths during those years.[11
~ Thomas Sowell
nothing happens until somebody sells something to someone.
~ Tim Connor
In 1770, for instance, a famine in Bengal clobbered the company's revenue. British legislators saved it from bankruptcy by exempting it from tariffs on tea exports to the American colonies. Which was, perhaps, shortsighted on their part: it eventually led to the Boston Tea Party, and the American Declaration of Independence.7 You could say the United States owes its existence to excessive corporate influence on politicians.
~ Tim Harford
tax farming is absurdly inefficient. In the first place, it discredits the state, represented in the popular mind by a grasping private profiteer. Secondly, it generates considerably less revenue than a well-administered system of government collection, if only because of the profit margin accruing to the private collector. And thirdly, you get disgruntled taxpayers.
~ Tony Judt
high-profile tech companies) are earning only an average of $3 per hour of attention—
~ Kevin Kelly