 |
"Outgo" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... being nothing but a rich man's plaything," he said. "I just got my back up, and wanted to see if it couldn't be made a paying thing. And I've proved it can be. I've had the closest account kept of income and outgo, and so far from being a drain on a man to reforest his woodland and administer it as he should, there's an actual profit in it, enough to make a business of it, enough to occupy a man for his lifetime and his son after him, if he gives it ...
— The Bent Twig • Dorothy Canfield
... fifty years of almost incessant struggle with the public, was the mighty railroad monster humbled. It had lost power to regulate the two items which represent the existence of a business—its income and its outgo. The Interstate Commerce Commission was now fixing railroad rates, and Congress was fixing the amounts of railroad wages. It remained for the Great War to precipitate the only logical outcome of this situation—government control. The steadily increasing responsibilities of war ...
— The Railroad Builders - A Chronicle of the Welding of the States, Volume 38 in The - Chronicles of America Series • John Moody
... own behalf. Under sovereignties they think that the ruling power alone, to which they credit boundless wealth, should bear the expense: they are very ready to search out the ruler's sources of income, but do not make a similar careful calculation about the outgo. They are not inclined to pay out anything extra personally and of their own free will, nor will they hear of voluntary public contributions. The former course no one would choose, because he would not ...
— Dio's Rome, Vol. 4 • Cassius Dio |
Words linked to "Outgo" : cost, surmount, exceed, outdraw, shell, transferred possession, vanquish, out-herod, break, beat, outfox, outwit, overreach, outstrip, transferred property, outrange, outsmart, circumvent, beat out, crush, shame, outdo, outsell, income, expense, transfer payment, outshout, outroar, outmarch, outpace, outsail, outbrave, outweigh, outwear, outshine, better, outcry, trounce, outgrow |
Copyright © 2024 Free Translator.org
|
