#productive

As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#during #economic #economically #federal #generates

The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived. ↗

— Gilda Radner

#ambiguity #cancer #days #die #even

If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn. ↗

— David Ricardo

#certainly #classes #commercial #corn #encouragement

Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected. ↗

— Ann Richards

#been #cause #health #know #my number one

Generally I get up at around 7. But oftentimes, I'll be lolling in bed a little bit earlier - sometimes as early as 5:45 - filing in my mind all the things I have to get done. Which is, of course, totally unproductive. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#bed #bit #course #done #earlier

The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it can explore a new process at the cost of being less efficient. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#choice #continually #continue #cost #efficient

Confidence-building is not something that can go on forever. If it goes on forever then it becomes counterproductive. ↗

— Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

#counterproductive #forever #go #goes #something

I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#capitalism #child #devices #everyone #fairly

Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#back #boom #capable #capacity #cripple

Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#develop #expertise #narrow #niche #own