Eugene Ormandy Quotes
It's all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible.
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Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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I tell people to look at me and understand that everybody first told me that I couldn't be a 6-foot, 9-inch point guard, and I proved them wrong. Then they told me I couldn't be a businessman and make money in urban America, and I proved them wrong. And they thought I couldn't win all these championships, and I proved them wrong there as well.
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I'm not - I'm not a person looking for money. I have no political ambitions whatsoever. I don't seek power. I don't seek any kind of praise. I have no ego to fulfill.
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Television has filled the space for actors that really want to make good work and not just make a lot of money and be famous for making a lot of money and being famous.
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More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value.
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It's counterintuitive to take a long time to hire someone, but it will save you enormous amounts of time and money later. Our biggest mistakes in hiring stem from speed.
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Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
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Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure.
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For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.
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We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic.
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Mugger: Your money or your life.
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The power of fantasy is so strong that people think they are having a good time when they are merely wasting money.
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We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world.
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I've made an incredible amount of money stealing fans from homeowners.
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San Francisco is an interesting place. It's always been such a nice culturally diverse environment, which it still is, but there's a lot of money there now and a lot of dot com's so it's a little different than it used to be.
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I genuinely have to work - I don't have enough money not to. But the last thing I would want is to be looked after.
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My father used to always say to me that, you know, if a guy goes out to steal a loaf of bread to feed his family, they'll give him 10 years, but a guy can do white-collar crime and steal the money of thousands and he'll get probation and a slap on the wrist.
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To bring down your credit card balances, write down the benefits of reducing your debt. No more gnawing feeling that you're throwing money away, perhaps. More money flowing to other financial objectives. Then consult the list when you have doubts.
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I kept auditioning, with no savings and no money, credit card debt gaining interest. I went on unemployment. I bought ramen noodles at dollar stores. I never had to - God forbid - live on the streets.
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I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.
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When I was growing up, we didn't have much money. What was important in my house was to have food on the table, be happy, and have our family.
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I do know that I have to work hard for every single thing that I get, really hard, and that's okay.
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If I had to choose, it would be dancing. Dancing is my first passion and it's gotten me where I am today.
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It's all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible.
