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Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and…

— James Rouse

“In the 1954 Internal Revenue Code, a Republican Congress changed forty-year, straight-line depreciation for buildings to permit 'accelerated depreciation' of greenfield income-producing property in…

— Dolores Hayden

There are two types of depreciation. There is one where you're manipulating currencies. And that's not what Japan is doing.

— Jamie Dimon

He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says,…

— Don DeLillo

A dramatic unwinding of that relationship [between USA and China], by way of an aggressive trade policy, is one of the nightmare scenarios for…

— Judy Woodruff

The foundation of humility is truth. The humble man sees himself as he is. If his depreciation of himself were untrue,... it wouldnot be…

— Henry Fairlie

One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off…

— Dennis Hastert

Self-depreciation is a disease. Once it gets a hold on us - good-bye!

— Douglas Fairbanks

Lobbyists know that a 0 percent tax rate on capital income is not, in fact, the lowest possible rate. There can be negative tax…

— Joel Achenbach

Starting in the '80s or so, after the United States sharply cut its rates, other countries decided they better do it too, and here's…

— T.R. Reid

The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less…

— Norbert Wiener

I've heard time and again from small business owners in Ohio that extending bonus depreciation is the single biggest factor in allowing their businesses…

— Pat Tiberi