Financial Sustainability Quotes

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

The only reason there is a crisis about Social Security in the US and pensions in Europe and Japan is that you cannot maintain a "Ponzi" scheme indefinitely. We have collected from today's young to pay today's old and counted on tomorrow's young to keep doing so. That was a fine scheme as long as the number of young people was rising faster than old people. When that ratio comes to an end, such a system also has to end.

The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.

I tell each artist they have to grow toward a revenue stream.

I just have to sell enough records to continue financing making more records.

A public debt is a public curse.

I'm pro-business! But business ought to make its own money.

Let's stop bankrupting the country and start investing in our future.

We need to find a way of having a conversation across the parties on how you fund local government.

Any government, like individuals and families, cannot spend more than they take in without courting disaster.

If we look at pricing holistically, we'll create a more solid business.

I think the private sector for the most part, the vast majority of employers in America, they wake up in the morning, and they have a bottom line. This is how much they make, this is how much their expenses are; they certainly need to break even just to stay in business, and they need to make a profit in order to survive long-term.

I have been working on one film at a time. One film recovers a little cost and that helps me move on to the next one.

You know that first of all your films have to make money no matter who you are.

My partner, Jeff Ullrich, and I always thought Earwolf was going to be big. There were a couple of studies before we launched saying podcasts were going to really grow. But I remember so many conversations at the beginning where people would say, 'How are you going to make money with this?'

Our pandering politicians compete to add names to the dependency of entitlement rolls instead of evaluating the success of these programs by how many people leave the dole and are restored to an independence. And these bulging entitlements are saddling our offspring with unsustainable generational debt.

Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario.

Throughout history governments have been chronically short of revenue. The reason should be clear: unlike you and me, governments do not produce useful goods and services that they can sell on the market; governments, rather than producing and selling services, live parasitically off the market and off society.

I'd like my grandkids to be able to watch PBS. But I'm not willing to borrow money from China, and make my kids have to pay the interest on that, and my grandkids, over generations, as opposed to saying to PBS, 'Look, you're going to have to raise more money from charitable contributions or from advertising.'

I don't think we need to extend unemployment any further without paying for it, and without making some modifications such as turning it into a loan at some point. It then encourages people to go back to work.

Startups don’t fail because they lack a product; they fail because they lack customers and a profitable business model.

We added Medicare Part D to a system facing bankruptcy and gave no thought to means testing it.

I don't think the market can keep going up. In the U.S., we see real estate not going up.. houses are selling at lower prices. You can't have anything going up 10 percent to 20 percent to 30 percent indefinitely.

Lowering prices is easy. Being able to afford to lower prices is hard.