[High income tax rates] not only check consumption but discourage investment and encourage...the avoidance of taxes [rather] than the production of goods.[...]Our… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Only in this form of separation the black man is exploited. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
What is central to morality is rational self-constraint (acting from duty), in cease where there is no other incentive to do your… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
With respect to their safety, derivatives, for the most part, are traded among very sophisticated financial institutions and individuals who have considerable… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Tell a child, a husband or an employee that he is stupid or dumb at a certain thing, that he has no… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
“When I applied to graduate school many years ago, I wrote an essay expressing my puzzlement at how a country that could… — Charles Wheelan Copy Share Image
What had the board been doing when they see these things happening. I mean, you can write a law that says you… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
When it comes to trying to manage how our entire planet-wide market and all the people and businesses in it deal with… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
We simply prefer to deny death or tragedy at all costs and, with it, a fundamental aspect of life. We do this… — Claudia Llosa Copy Share Image
The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
When everybody is playing at the same level, there's so much more noise. And there's less incentive for the people who should… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
It feels like the older you get - or maybe that doesn't even matter - you have to get a forcing incentive… — Pontus Winnberg Copy Share Image
The all American work ethic, destructive enough by itself, also packs a gender double standard that strip-mines the natural resources of both… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
We may as well face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety. — George Reisman Copy Share Image
When emulation leads us to strive for self-elevation by merit alone, and not by belittling another, then it is one of the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When we talk about the UN, what are we really talking about? We are talking about my country, your country, other countries… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
For people who are at the bottom economically, the world is becoming a harder and harder place. And yet the incentives to… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
To the economically illiterate, if some company makes a million dollars in profit, this means that their products cost a million dollars… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It gives [a man] the incentive to develop his dormant potential so that when he becomes a part of the brotherhood of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The American economy is driven by small business. And there's nothing basically to create incentives for small businesses. We've done no tax… — Ed Rollins Copy Share Image
It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image