Meredith Whitney Quotes
You're either making money or you're not. If you're not making money get out of the business.
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I think movie and television companies are in the business of making money, and if you have a franchise, eventually you'll want to exploit that franchise and revisit it. So I assume at some point someone will do another story in the 'Lost' world.
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There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.
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Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.
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We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.
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My strength is in finding ways to make the government work for the people: finding waste, or money that is not being properly used... or finding opportunities that are out there and making them work for the community.
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I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician.
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Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure.
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Posh is a way of living that can often be quite miserly and not about money.
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One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
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I trade musical favours like cattle. I can't remember the last time I did a remix for actual money. For me, I try and get a good swap.
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You don't do a business for pleasure: You have to make money.
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I've made an incredible amount of money stealing fans from homeowners.
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After 'Sports' came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album's singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted.
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People don't mind if you have a lot of money if they know you're working for it.
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I doing casual labor by the day. They wouldn't pay you until the next morning. There was a bar that would cash your check if you bought a beer first. A lot of guys never left until they'd drunk up all their money.
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The way I look at it, everything is a trade. You acquire some money, so then you've got no financial burdens, but everyone wants your money and so who can you trust? Or you've got no money and you can trust anyone, but then you've got the worry to pay bills. Which is worse?
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Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.
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The fact is, I made $400 a week and only for 26 weeks a year. I never had any money.
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People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.
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When I give my time to a worthy cause, it's time well spent. Lending a voice to help raise money - or perhaps just awareness - is the least I can do to give back. When I spend time with people who are fighting for children, it puts everything into perspective.
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The size of General Motors is in the service not of monopoly or the economies of scale but of planning.
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In pluralistic, democratic societies, there is the freedom to adopt the religion of your choice. This is good. This lets curious people like you run around on the loose!
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You're either making money or you're not. If you're not making money get out of the business.
