Rattner Steven Quotes

#1. The largest number of jobs likely to be created by the JOBS Act will be for lawyers needed to clean up the mess that it will create.

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#2. As a beneficiary of the carried interest loophole, I've seen firsthand the lack of any difference between the work involved in generating a carried interest and the work done by millions of other professionals who are taxed at the full 35 percent rate.

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#3. Increased revenues, meaning higher taxes, will be a central element of any successful long-term budget plan, and President Obama is right to insist that the wealthy - the slice of America that has come through the recession in by far the best financial health - should provide those funds.

Steven Rattner

#4. What doesn't kill you can be ignored until the immediate crisis has passed.

Andrea Speed

#5. Everything I make starts very personally.

Baz Luhrmann

#6. The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.

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#7. During my 30 years on Wall Street, taxes on 'unearned income' have bounced up and down with regularity, and I've never detected any change in the appetite for hard work and accumulating wealth on the part of myself or any of my fellow capitalists.

Steven Rattner

#8. To be sure, India has achieved enviable success in business services, like the glistening call centers in Bangalore and elsewhere. But in the global jousting for manufacturing jobs, India does not get its share.

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#9. From the Left comes the proposition that, given the slow economy, we should defer attending to the problem of mounting obligations - and the truly delusional idea that growing federal debt doesn't matter because we owe most of it to ourselves.

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#10. China has lunged into the 21st century, while India is still lurching toward it.

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#11. Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast ... .Of course, slowness is bad. Really skillful people never get out of time, and are always deliberate, and never appear busy.

Miyamoto Musashi

#12. Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay gap between top executives and shop floor laborers; between 'Master of the Universe' financiers and pretty much everyone else.

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#13. It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

#14. Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare and Social Security policies, we've stolen almost $60 trillion from our children.

Steven Rattner

#15. To fix Social Security, we should first stop using the Consumer Price Index to adjust benefits for inflation. Using the C.P.I. overstates the impact of inflation and has also led to larger increases in benefits for Social Security recipients than the income gains of typical American workers.

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#16. Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most sophisticated investors. Indeed, most professionally run venture funds lose money. For individuals, it's pure folly. Buy a lottery ticket instead. Your chance of winning is likely to be higher.

Steven Rattner

#17. One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or the Continental Congress.

Samuel Adams

#18. Ladders were not inherently dangerous, he told himself, people climbed them every day, and most of them lived.

Anne Ursu

#19. Visits to crowded Indian urban centers unleash sensory assaults: colorful dress and lilting chatter provide a backdrop to every manner of commerce, from small shops to peddlers to beggars.

Steven Rattner

#20. Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.

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#21. Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.

Doug E. Fresh

#22. Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas.

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#23. What I need... is a strong drink and a peer group.

Douglas Adams

#24. The stagflation of the 1970s blessed us with damaging wage and price controls and the utterly counterintuitive supply-side notion - famously drawn on a napkin - that cutting taxes would lead to higher tax revenues.

Steven Rattner

#25. Not only is health a normal condition, but it is our duty not only to attain it but to maintain it.

Joseph Pilates

#26. Even if such beauty wasn't meant to be in a world so fallen as ours, that didn't take away from its beauty. It only made it more beautiful.

Kyle West

#27. Finally, let's keep well in mind the most important lesson of the auto rescue: While government should stay away from the private sector as much as possible, markets do occasionally fail, and when they do government can play a constructive role, as it did in the case of the auto rescue.

Steven Rattner

#28. The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.

Steven Rattner

#29. Success is 99 percent failure

Soichiro Honda

#30. It's time for the sensible center to rise up and push for a rational approach to our fiscal challenges.

Steven Rattner

#31. Most troublesome is the legalization of 'crowd funding,' the ability of start-up companies to raise capital from small investors on the Internet.

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#32. Slapping a catchy acronym like the JOBS Act on a piece of legislation makes it more difficult for politicians to oppose it - and indeed that's what happened with the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act.

Steven Rattner

#33. India's rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.

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