"One of the things we worry about when we cut the tax on gasoline is that it basically stimulates additional use."

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Source : "Bush Economist: Gas Tax Cut Not the Answer". www.washingtonpost.com. May 2, 2006.

Edward Lazear

#Cutting Quotes #Worry Quotes #Use Quotes

“My office has a view of low-cost housing, old East German prefabricated apartment buildings. It isn't an attractive view, but it's very helpful, because it reminds me to ask myself, whenever there is a decision to be made, whether the people who live there can afford our decisions.”
“Firms that draw commitment from customers and staff give them a way to sign up for something that can allow them to be their best self.”
“Note to self: It's hard to attain a state of no-mind when you're incredibly pumped up on tea and sugar and have to urinate every three and a half minutes.”
“The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know.”

Source : Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Root, the Rod and the Flower”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc
“Keep in mind that the tendency to be judgmental - toward yourself or another person - is a good barometer of how anxious or stressed out you are. Judging others is simply the flip side of judging yourself.”

Source : FaceBook post by Harriet Lerner from Oct 26, 2014
“In my experience, some of the biggest obstacles to becoming a successful entrepreneur aren't financial or structural - they are internal and psychological. It's important for dreamers to believe in themselves and their ideas, to fend off the skeptics and find others who will share in their dreams. Once you understand that being called "crazy" is a compliment, you realize that you can get beyond other people's opinions and zig when others zag.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.”
“I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.”

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