Jack Ma

In the beginning I just wanted to survive. For the first three years, we made zero revenue. I remember many times when I was trying to pay up, the restaurant owner would say, 'Your bill was paid.' And there would be a note saying, 'Mr. Ma, I'm your customer on the Alibaba platform. I made a lot of money, and I know you don't, so I paid the bill.

Chinese Businessman

Jared Dudley

The players before me got this TV revenue so high that I can make money to support my family forever, and I feel like it's an obligation for us to leave the game better than when we first got it, for the future.

American Coach

Bill Gates

In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That's quite clear.

American Businessman

John Breaux

Our struggle is to identify the sources of revenue and the means to obtain the funds. Without funds, all the planning and research studies can't help us.

American Politician

Punit Renjen

I'm not motivated by having the largest revenue base - you get that as an outcome. If we do our job well, we will be appropriately rewarded.

Indian Businessman

Kevin McCarthy

What you really want to do is sit down and find a place that you can control government spending and raise more revenue.

Nigel Lawson

I have long argued that in the modern world, corporation tax has had its day as a major source of tax revenue.

British Politician

Eric Yuan

Empathy, humanity and support for each other is more important than revenue, than growth.

Dave Portnoy

Ad revenue is important, but we want to be self-sustaining.

American Celebrity

Jon Taffer

Revenue cures everything in the business world.

Refers to money made from a company's business activities, not personal income.

Business Operations

'Revenue' includes income from all sources, not just sales of products or services.

Broader than Sales

Revenue doesn't mean profit; it's money earned before expenses are subtracted.

Not Always Profit

Revenue is the total amount of income before expenses, not what's left after expenses.

Pre-expense Amount

Don't confuse revenue with profit—revenue doesn't account for any costs.

Misconception of Profit

Includes all forms of income, like sales, investments, and other operations.

Broad Income Sources

In a state context, it's related to the government's income, not business.

Public Funding

Doesn't refer to individual tax payments but the collective income of the state.

Not Personal Taxes

Revenue is crucial for budgeting and funding public services and projects.

Government Budgeting

 is its ability to adapt to getting punched in the face by the customer. The customer is the true reality. And that's why I came to think that the team maybe was the most important thing. Then I started looking at the business model. Does the company have a very clear path generating customer revenues? That started rising to the top in my thinking

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 signed a groundbreaking agreement making players partners in the league, entitled to shares of ticket revenues and television contracts. Suddenly, anybody who could be an NBA player wanted to be, and teams started scouring the globe for the bodies that could help them win championships. Almost overnight,

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 but also the highest revenue. The same patterns were true for engineers' productivity and medical students' grades. Givers are overrepresented at the bottom and at the top of every success metric that I can track. Which raises the How do we create a world where more of these givers get to excel?

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 The idea behind tax cuts is that if taxes are too high, people will be less willing to work, which would ultimately decrease tax revenue. So at a lower tax rate, the government might actually gain more tax money that it can theoretically put towards improving life for its citizens,

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 question to you though I think a lot of people don't think there's a lot of logic to what you just said but you're an economist if carbon is a long term cost to the world what we don't I a lot of people don't understand why even get behind a carbon tax that was revenue

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 Three, and it's very subtle but very Decide to settle when growth is guaranteed. So when your life is going great, you have put together a great team, and you have growing revenue, and everything is set -- time to settle. When I launched my first book,

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 In fact, this is the forecast picture. There are various things in I could say we might raise more revenue, or medical innovation will make the spending even higher. It is an increasingly difficult picture, even assuming the economy does quite well --

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 is so deeply entrenched that we don't even realize how we're harming society. Here's a small but startling example of exactly how we're doing this chart shows corporate giving as a percentage of profits, not revenues, over the last 30 years.

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 Department conducts their job the report accuses police of targeting black and poor drivers to raise revenue the city relies on the police force to serve essentially as a as a collection agency

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 supplies one-third of the world's diamonds millions of dollars worth of these precious stones passed through this sorting Center every day revenue from diamonds all other sources of income