Jean-Baptiste Colbert quotes
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“The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.”
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“When a king creates an office, Providence creates immediately a fool to buy it.”
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“The objective is to pluck the geese in such a manner as to obtain the greatest number of feathers with the least amount of hissing.”
-- Jean-Baptiste Colbert
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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“Art is not the spiritual side of business.”
Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.56, Univ of California Press
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“The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.”
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