Top 37 Steven Rattner 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.
Steven Rattner
#2. You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.
Joan Didion
#3. But the fact that I couldn't hold my job was worrisome. I was probably crazy. I'd been skirting the idea of craziness for a year or two, now I was closing in on it.
Pull yourself together! I told myself. Stop indulging yourself. There's nothing wrong with you. You're just wayward.
Susanna Kaysen
#4. The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.
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#5. 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.
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#6. Only when you are relaxed can you see what's going on.
Jane Campion
#7. 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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#8. Being involved and being committed are miles apart. In our world today, most people are relationally involved, but few are truly committed.
Craig Groeschel
#9. Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
#10. 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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#11. 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.
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#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's so easy to get a divorce nowadays that people just jump in and out of marriage. Nobody wants to work for anything anymore. They expect everything in life to be handed to them, for everything to come easy. Well, I'll tell you something. Relationships aren't easy. They're anything but.
Steph Nuss
#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.
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#17. At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
Charles Darwin
#19. The clamours of spring are the same old delicate noises, The earth renews its magical youth at a breath.
Arthur Symons
#20. Position without nagging or repeating yourself several times. If he asks, "Is something wrong?" take a breath and respond calmly. "Yes, something is wrong, but I'd like to talk about it later. I really don't want to talk about it now.
Sherry Argov
#21. India's rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.
Steven Rattner
#22. 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.
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#23. 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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#24. If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom. It is but a blind force.
Mary Baker Eddy
#25. It's time for the sensible center to rise up and push for a rational approach to our fiscal challenges.
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#27. Don't be afraid; sit alone for a few moments, the answers will come to you.
Charles F. Glassman
#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.
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#29. It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered.
Joseph Butler
#30. 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.
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#31. 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.
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#32. A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart.
Johnny Knoxville
#33. Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas.
Steven Rattner
#34. Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.
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#35. 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.
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#36. China has lunged into the 21st century, while India is still lurching toward it.
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#37. 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.
Steven Rattner
