I've been entrepreneurial since middle school. I was always arranging bake sales, dances and school trips to raise money for the Dalton School.
[reading newspaper headlines] Rex Kramer: Passengers certain to die! Steve McCroskey: Airline negligent. Johnny: There's a sale at Penney's!
Caroline: Who knew that, in between bake sales, my mother was Anaïs Nin?
Of all the big Internet companies, Yahoo is the most highly valued on a price-earnings and price-sales basis.
I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation.
Is the competition really some mythical beast? No, not really. Knowing how to play your group of salespeople as a team, to overcome the group objective of winning the customers support, is the objective. The opposing team in proper viewpoint is not j...
The true elitists in the literary world are the ones who have become annoyed by literary ambition in any form, who have converted the very meaning of ambition so totally that it now registers as an act of disdain, a hostility to the poor common reade...
And they all lived happily ever after (barring death, divorce, arrest for tax fraud, that incident with the pool boy...)
I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.
It has been possible to trace historically back to a very early age the taxes which were imposed on medicines, spices and similar substances in German towns. Thus, for instance, one finds that in the year 1500, thirteen, in 1540, thirty-eight, and in...
I know lots of things you don't" "Name five." "The Grand Unification Theory, tax law, binary, the capital of Azerbailan, and how tractors work.
Do you work for the government, any government?” "I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.
Every culture has some ritual for joining two people together and making them stay that way, and ours is giving tax breaks.
Love is so wonderful and free to give, and it’s the one thing they can’t make you pay taxes on.
Why can’t car washes be giant waterslides for cars? Speaking of fun, why can’t sex be fun, rather than something you begrudgingly pay for, like taxes.
Spiritual work is taxing work, and men are loath to do it. Praying, true praying, costs an outlay of serious attention and of time, which flesh and blood do not relish.
As long as they don’t harm the environment, pay taxes, and don't do it in my bed, it’s none of my business.
The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.
The American people are screaming out saying it's unfair that the wealthiest, the largest corporations who can afford the best attorneys, the best accountants, take advantage of these special tax treatments that the lobbyists have, along with lawmake...
I think that the best things that governments can do for productivity is not whack on new taxes and, if we can get institutions like schools and hospitals functioning better, well that's obviously good for the overall productiveness of our society.
We all pay federal taxes that we send to Washington and it is not unusual that as Americans we would expect some federal investment in the cities and metro areas because we're the ones that are generating the economic activity.
