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JOHN S. WATSON
Most of us have not heard about Master Limited Partnerships. These special financing arrangements al... BERNIE SANDERS
Under Ronald Reagan - who cut the top tax rate from 70 percent to 28 percent - black income, busines... LARRY ELDER
Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it&... GAIL COLLINS I've seen my practice mature and probably 50 percent to 60 percent of the pregnancies are over the a...
DR. CRANSTON CEDERLIND The growth rate in the enterprise resource planning applications market is coming down from 60 perce...
ART RUSSELL Our graduation rate is just under 60 percent -- the highest in 10 years. We're actually seeing treme...
FRANK DESTEFANO About 35 percent of our business used to be entry-level buyers. That's about 10 percent now, and tha...
BOB ADAMS
The burden of paying Helpers may cause American equity investors, overall, to earn only 80 percent o... WARREN BUFFETT The Panel's income tax reform plan would make some positive changes such as eliminating the double-t...
CHRIS EDWARDS To the extent that it pushes all your other assets over those thresholds, now you're paying a 50 per...
BILL ABRAMS I've been paying a lot of money in state income taxes, and I've been happy to do it, but whe...
TOM GOLISANO I think, in effect, in most of the European countries, the total marginal tax rate is over 50 percen...
JAMES MIRRLEES Maybe 60 to 70 percent of them are new or start-up companies. These numbers continue to grow.
BOB VETERE The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 y...
AUSTAN GOOLSBEE On the fracture side, there was a 21 percent reduction in hip fracture in women over 60, and that's ...
ANDREA LACROIX I think individual investors who trade on margin account for about 60 percent of the total using the...
KATSUHIKO KODAMA Things are very profitable at IBM. There aren't too many companies of that size that are earning ove...
MARC HEILWEIL Venture capital investing is a volatile business, but over the long term it has earned very attracti...
ROSS KARI State and local taxes can add as much as 20 percent onto your basic rate.
DAVID HEIM The project is just over 60 percent complete at the moment.
IAN CRAIG We expect low-cost carriers to capture at least 60-70 percent of the market by 2010.
KAPIL KAUL Those who expect further rate hikes can note that the real Fed Funds rate has yet to reach at least ...
ASHRAF LAIDI One thing that we noticed is the amount people put into down-payments, which was about 20 percent du...
LAWRENCE YUN If you're one of those unlucky people who happens to get it, it's fairly dangerous. It's got a 35 to...
CHRIS CONLAN In 2005, we executed a dynamic drilling program, posted a 16.2 percent daily production increase, ac...
MARK G. PAPA
In 2010 the U.S. will have a payroll tax rate increase, an estate tax increase, and income tax incre... ARTHUR LAFFER Any change in rates on home equity lines is directly related to the actions of the Fed. On average, ...
FRITZ ELMENDORF Whenever you can get a muni-bond at or over 6 percent, that's a very attractive rate.
MARIO DEROSE When DVD (players) was launched, there was an array of products sold from $500 to $1,000. Oddly enou...
FRANK SIMONIS We are also praying for t strength of the peso since only 5 percent of our capital is equity [and 95...
CYRIL DEL CALLAR
Over 35 percent of our customers run Microsoft Windows Server. JOHN ROBERTS When thieves steal information from corporations, they rob enterprises of valuable assets: business ...
ALAN FUDGE African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patient...
XAVIER BECERRA With the equity market the way it is and the fixed-income market the way it is, many [investors] fin...
JEFFERSON DUARTE
All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the U... THOMAS PIKETTY More than 60 percent of low-income families have no books in their homes for children.
BARBARA WALKER Microsoft has gotten to a size where it's almost impossible to outgrow the market. The surprising 60...
DANIEL KUSNETZKY Every one of the best tax systems raises sufficient revenue without imposing at least one of the thr...
CURTIS DUBAY
As of the mid-90s, over 50 percent of women have a bachelor's and master's degree, compared ... PETER DIAMANDIS I would say since we've been doing it, at least 60 to 70 percent of the people who have completed th...
MARGO DEANE Technology has the strongest growth rates. These companies grow 20, 40, 50, 60 percent; the broad ec...
DENNIS MCKECHNIE Approximately 60 percent of our energy, looking at next year, will be generated by coal. The coal wi...
KAREN KOLLMAN Over 60 percent of all dealership costs are personnel related.
JEFF SACKS The solar market is projected to grow 35 percent a year for the next three to five years.
WALTER NASDEO Congratulations to her on saving over 16 percent of gross income.
GREG ZANDLO Iraq's economy is forecasted to grow at a rate of 4 percent this year, and accelerate into the doubl...
HEATHER LAYMAN
Both plans restructure tax benefits ... and make these benefits fairer by ensuring they are availabl... CONNIE MACK Medicare is growing at a rate of 8.5 percent per year, the federal budget at 5.2 percent and the gro...
GAIL WILENSKY Anyone who has followed the U.S. economy in recent years can tell you while corporate America and th...
JAMES P. HOFFA Business conditions were stronger than we had originally anticipated. We reached our interim goal of...
BRIAN L. HALLA There's been a 100 percent increase in taxes over the last three or four years. Insurance is up 30 t...
AL HOLMES They did grow faster than the market at 64 percent versus 45 percent for the market, but this is a s...
EDWARD SNYDER Netscape will have to spend more and do more to catch up ... But they still have 60 percent of the b...
ANDREA WILLIAMS There's seven or eight companies fighting for 20 percent of the market.
CHRISTOPHER CHUTE We found that the prevalence of depression was 40 percent in women age 60 years or younger, 21 perce...
DR. SUSMITA MALLIK German companies see the potential dangers if they don't act. They're acting first, to avoid becomin...
BORIS BOEHM I've been helping fisheries keep track of the mark rate, and it has been very good. We've had a mark...
GARY KREIN We are growing at 35 percent in the last three years and the potential is so vast that we expect to ...
SANDEEP KOHLI I don't know how they will get these companies to invest millions into these projects unless they ar...
MARC FALCONE Our previous view ascribed a 50 percent to 60 percent probability to a Delta Chapter 11 filing. We n...
MICHAEL LINENBERG Inflows to international equity funds in 2005 exceeded those to U.S. equity funds. Global diversific...
AVI NACHMANY Nationwide, one of 100 children are born with congenital heart disease and the mortality rate is up ...
CINDY WILLIAMS Although the market closed with a loss of over one percent on Friday, investors are taking a positiv...
DEEPAK SHAH
In 1930, the death rate for Milwaukee’s blacks was nearly 60 percent higher than the citywide rate... MATTHEW DESMOND Judging by market rates, there is a 70 percent probability of a rate cut by March.
ANDREW CHAVERIAT I cannot justify not being at 100 percent of the market rate, and we should do everything we can to ...
BOB STEPHENSON
Without the ability to plant roots and invest in your community or your school - because you're ... MATTHEW DESMOND I think it's absurd that insurance companies would avoid paying these claims,
CHARLIE MELANCON All the locations we run are now at $2.99, ... I would guess probably 60 to 70 percent of the rest o...
DON BOWERS
By now we're over 60 percent out... The number of infiltrators has been halved, ARIEL SHARON an online poll showed that over 60 percent of respondents believe in the devil.
EMILY ROSE Of our 20,000 university graduates each year, 60 percent have a degree in science, technology or bus...
DAVID ALLISON The aged and disabled population makes up about 20 percent of Medicaid and they use 60 to 70 percent...
BOB DAY
A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human 'wisdom'..... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
A desire not to butt into other people’s business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom ... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN We expect the replacement rate to be at 75 percent in 2006 and at 100 percent in 2010.
CARLOS MORALES If companies are able to raise equity from the market, then their problems for financing incomplete ...
UDAY KOTAK Looking forward into the fourth quarter, at this point we are not highly optimistic that there will ...
KAREN HAUS Companies can preserve legacy systems by using them as business assets without the requirement for r...
UDAY KUMARASWAMI Our hypothesis is that smokers who receive counseling will be more likely to quit smoking. We are ho...
DR. LORI BASTIAN Everyone is required to abide by the 35 percent rule -- we only accept up to 35 percent of the aucti...
BROOKLY MCLAUGHLIN The truth is, our corporate income taxes are some of the highest in the world, and frankly, in my ju...
JIM JORDAN
Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 3... ROBERT REICH This is very different, because the equity market is actually about 28 percent overvalued compared t...
CHARLES REINHARD My opinion is we're seeing market liquidations of many of the former high-flying Internet stocks, .....
CHARLES BIDERMAN To only have 35 percent of average rainfall at this time of year is extreme.
BILL SAMMLER On a global level, 45 percent of assets are offshore compared to 55 percent which are managed locall...
DAMIAN KOZLOWSKI
Between income taxes and employment taxes, capital gains taxes, estate taxes, corporate taxes, prope... CHUCK NORRIS If you look at the statistics of who is in the market now, more than 50 percent of all American hous...
BILL MANN
Corporations barely pay taxes. The corporate tax rate is already very low, but corporations have wor... NOAM CHOMSKY While the domestics are still spending far more proportionally, the numbers are not as far off as th...
JANE LIU In consumer surveys, most prefer dealer referral rather than direct. They want the best information ...
DEAN DEBIASE If we see anything above 4.75 percent, approaching 5 percent on the 10-year Treasury, investors shou...
JOSEPH KEATING I think investors should strongly invested, ... They should realize that doom and gloom and all of t...
ROBERT ROBBINS
If you have someone who is paying 88 percent of her income on rent, and we have laws that allow a la... MATTHEW DESMOND
We are at 100 percent service, although the utility companies aren't quite at 100 percent generation... JENNIFER GRANHOLM I like multinational companies. They may have 40 to 60 percent of their engines of growth in the Uni...
LAURENCE D. FINK At least some in the purchaser community, who have been paying 20 percent and 25 percent increases i...
MARC P. VOLAVKA [Her talk of entrepreneurship falls on receptive ears at WIM, more so now than ever.] Previously, ab...
ROSEANNE
With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60. 
The financial crisis is a stark reminder that transparency and disclosure are essential in today'... 
The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed. 
Control your own destiny or someone else will. 
I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy. 
Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay ma... 
If I have a weakness, it's probably ice cream. That's where I get lax, sloppy. I'll snea... 
Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll ... 
I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so ... 
I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want th... 
One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when yo... 
I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to. 
I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet. 
I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell. 