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When you nationalize the expenditures but privatize the revenue, everything is profit.


T. A. Thompson

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When you nationalize the expenditures but privatize the revenue, everything is profit.
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JESSE VENTURA Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Revenue is static, expenditures are going up and you have a very substantial fiscal problem.
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to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always...
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CRAIG GROESCHEL We have huge expenditures both in the Gulf area and huge expenditures in Iraq. This is something lib...
DALE KILDEE Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
SCOTT ADAMS War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
RON PAUL His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
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DEYTH BANGER Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
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YVON CHOUINARD People are not able to grasp the distinction between revenue and actual profit. They see revenue rep...
WADE DUTY PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA Intuit posted strong revenue growth and even stronger profit growth during the third quarter, ... Th...
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LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR. When you think you are ready you are not ready.
When you are not ready you are ready...
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DAN PALLOTTA The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER My intention was to reduce the revenue of the company and increase the [profit] margins.
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CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER We are drifting into some ugly parallels here, and if I'd written this kind of thing two years ago I...
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KIM DOTCOM The focus is on reducing expenditures.
ANTHONY COLEY When you go from speaker to lieutenant governor, it's kind of a letdown, frankly, ... But I worked w...
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IRWIN MICHAEL How can you tell when the devil is lying? His lips are moving.
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MATTHEW LEWIS This is your fault. I'm going to kill you. And all the cake is gone.
You don't even care, do yo...
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PETER MAXWELL DAVIES Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA I oppose the president's plan to privatize Social Security.
BRIAN HIGGINS It's just a misfortunate because I think he could've been where Thompson is, had he not got an infec...
BILL PARCELLS Defenders of Wilson are correct to beg for context when considering his legacy. But it is they who i...
GREG GRANDIN When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impov...
XUN KUANG Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.
NICK TOSCHES I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face.
"...
BRANDON SANDERSON It's new revenue streams, and everything we do with our content has to be for new revenue streams. T...
LESLIE MOONVES That's the way it's got to be these days. When we have an upswing in revenue from playing in postsea...
BOB BOWLSBY The struggle is part of your story but Everything will be in place in the right situation at a perfe...
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO We can cut the expenditures, but then the revenues just start piling up.
CRAIG CLIFFORD When you look at a plate of food it has to be equally appealing to the ownership as to the customer,...
JORGE RAMOS When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM I'm a golfer - not an athlete.
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JEFF YATES We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.
SAM EWING Even when you have a big budget, you can't just shoot everything.
DEBBIE ALLEN I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. ...
DAN MILLMAN When you win, everything is overlooked. When you lose, everything is under a microscope.
SHANE OLIVEA Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God crea...
CRAIG GROESCHEL You Have Seen the Cure for Cancer Many Times, Even Right Now! So the Problem is Not Finding a Cure, ...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU The proper bookmark for a Hunter Thompson book is a pair of brass knuckles.
JONATHAN HEATT I oppose the president's plan to privatize Social Security.
BRIAN HIGGINS We're seeing revenue stabilization in most key markets. We're looking for evidence that that stabili...
MARK SWARTZBERG I can't be perfect for you, but you are perfect for me.
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DALEY THOMPSON I tend to eat vegetables only when I'm with the kids and the rest of the time, I'm a bit sla...
DALEY THOMPSON Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to im...
DALEY THOMPSON If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - a...
DALEY THOMPSON Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
DALEY THOMPSON Of course, I'd like to produce and direct a blockbuster, but you gotta build up to that. So now ...
LEA THOMPSON For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.
E.P. THOMPSON There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON I grew up in a very fundamentalist, evangelical Christian household. Both my parents were born-again...
CRAIG THOMPSON When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems ver...
SADA THOMPSON I am a very bottom-up thinker.
KEN THOMPSON It was the first study conducted with middle-class African-American men.
AARON THOMPSON Defense is key, it comes first.
AARON THOMPSON It's the right thing to do. We're doing what any responsible institution would do.
AARON THOMPSON It's safe to say the institutions won't be up and running for a while. They'll be here for at least ...
AARON THOMPSON It's just interaction with your customer, if he's buying you a drink, that should be OK, and you kno...
AARON THOMPSON [To meet that need, said Aaron Thompson of the Orange County Red Cross, the school board has turned ...
AARON THOMPSON The term 'breakout' always makes me think of an inmate or some butterfly emerging out of a c...
TESSA THOMPSON I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beau...
SOPHIE THOMPSON Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to con...
DOROTHY THOMPSON Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
ROY THOMPSON Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live
DOROTHY THOMPSON