#entitlement

Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance. These entitlements would be transferable and a market in them would be developed. ↗

— William Vickrey

#developed #entitlements #firms #given #gross

The discussion in Washington has changed dramatically. I mean, it's no longer a question of should we address entitlements - it's no longer a question of do we need to reduce spending in the future. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#changed #discussion #dramatically #entitlements #future

It is time that we provide clarity for our seniors, informing them of the services available that will lower the costs of their prescription drugs and strengthen the overall integrity of the Medicare entitlement. ↗

— Olympia Snowe

#clarity #costs #entitlement #informing #integrity

Rumors run wild when one sacrifices for self and temporarily forsakes those who assume entitlement to one's persona. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#forsake #person #persona #rumors #sacrifice

Beware: It is a quick transition from a nourishing sense of gratitude to a poisonous sense of entitlement. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#entitlement #grateful #gratitude #experience

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#self-reliance #self-help

No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#asked #entitlement #me #owed

Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#humility #love

I’m on a government watch list. But I’m not interested, because government watches only work twenty minutes out of every hour.
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— Jarod Kintz

#efficiency #entitled #entitlement #funny #government

You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending in the country, but you can't out of one side of your mouth say, 'Yes, we're for tax cuts, we're for spending discipline, and we're for bringing down the debt.' ↗

— Harold Ford

#country #cut #cuts #debt #discipline