Steven Rattner Quotes
Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most sophisticated investors. Indeed, most professionally run venture funds lose money. For individuals, it's pure folly. Buy a lottery ticket instead. Your chance of winning is likely to be higher.
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We own a shopping center in Temecula that is occupied and making money. In Florida, I am doing a 500-home subdivision just north of Eglin Air Force Base.
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The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.
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I was never really a Mod. I thought I was more of a beatnik with the brown corduroy jacket, blue jeans, etc. I loved the music Mods liked, and I loved the clothes, but I didn't have any money to spend on them.
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Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
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We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money.
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I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
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The general message would be to say to all these young people: If you have entrepreneurial aspirations, there is money, there are consumers, there is a huge market. The only thing you need to do is to go there and start doing things.
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I spend my money like I don't have anything.
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I've always been really picky about roles and make a point of reminding myself that it's not about the money - because, obviously, there's a lot of money to be made in this business if you're willing to do anything.
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I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.
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Academically, I was never that interested. I skipped classes. My biggest dream was to have a coffee shop, but I had no idea how to get the money to do that.
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We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line.
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Of course, bankers were always interested in making money. But when bankers had clients, they bore some responsibility for the clients' welfare.
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The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.
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Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.
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I like doing the editorial stuff because it's nice to do something that's more me. But modeling for brands and the things to make money... I guess I don't really like being the mannequin. It's a very strange concept.
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We're basically after Joe's beer money, and Joe likes his beer, so you better make sure that what you give him is at least as pleasurable to him as having his six-pack of beer would be.
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For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.
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Each money-printing exercise brings about unintended consequences. These unintended consequences are higher inflation rates than had no money been printed.
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To alter the money value of commodities, by altering the value of money, and yet to raise the same money amount by taxes, is then undoubtedly to increase the burthens of society.
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Don't be afraid to spend money to make money. That's one thing I've never been afraid of... to invest in myself.
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I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.
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God’s sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.
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Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most sophisticated investors. Indeed, most professionally run venture funds lose money. For individuals, it's pure folly. Buy a lottery ticket instead. Your chance of winning is likely to be higher.
