Charles O. Rossotti famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The cost of taxpayer compliance with [the tax code] is over $80 billion per year, more than eight times the cost of the IRS budget
-- Charles O. Rossotti

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Steve McClellan has drawn on an insider's lifetime view of how Wall Street really works to produce a practical and entertaining book of advice for investors. Whether you are a new or experienced investor you'll get something valuable out of it, including more than a few chuckles.
-- Charles O. Rossotti

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If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better.
[Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron Rokeby, nearly blinded himself in deciphering the two volumes of undated correspondence which were printed in 1810. Two more followed in 1813, after which the gallant Baron either died at his post or was smitten with despair; for sixty-eight cases of letters lay undisturbed ... 'Les morts n'écrivent point,' said Madame de Maintenon hopefully; but of what benefit is this inactivity, when we still continue to receive their letters?
Baseball should be the only thing on an eight year old boy's mind.
No Southern people ever seem to possess the energy of their Northern brothers, and in Sicily a dolce far niente life is much enjoyed. Time is no object. According to Pliny, Aristhomacus watched the life of the bee carefully for fifty-eight years, which is just the sort of work a Sicilian of to-day would like.
As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion.
You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
We must never forget that Christ did not suffer just during His three years of public ministry or the last few days of His life when He was crucified. No, He suffered throughout His life on earth. He who was without sin lived daily with the corruption and sinfulness of lost humanity.
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Obama, Thank you for sending me Christmas and New Year greetings yet again. Welcome back to India... Would have loved to host you at my concert in Baroda on the 26th!
Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.
Time is priceless, yet it costs us nothing. You can do anything you want with it, but you canâ€™t own it. You can spend it, but you canâ€™t keep it. And once youâ€™ve lost it, there is no getting it back. Itâ€™s just gone.

Charles O. Rossotti famous quotes

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