T. Boone Pickens (Thomas Boone Pickens Jr.) Quotes
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
Harold Coffin -
Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
P. T. Barnum -
Making money is often more fun than spending it, though I personally have never regretted money I've spent on friends, new experiences, saving time, travel, and causes I believe in.
Sam Altman -
Businesses can't afford to react to what their customers want; they need to anticipate their needs.
Parker Harris -
For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand -
Carefully calculate the potential size of your market to make sure you can grow. Before starting Mint, I knew that there were about 20 million people who had purchased 'Quicken' or 'Microsoft Money' over the years, and 80 million people using online banking in the U.S. alone.
Aaron Patzer
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I don't believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don't feel that I should have to share it with my community.
Gary Numan -
The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.
Omar Bongo -
Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.
Iris DeMent -
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund Burke -
I need to be very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias.
Rand Paul -
Even the superstars need to be coached once in awhile.
Adam Oates
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The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba.
Kamisese Mara -
I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.
Dalai Lama -
Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.
Zubin Mehta -
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
J. Paul Getty -
More than 200,000 kids have had their lives transformed by ARK. I use that word properly.
Ian Wace -
We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq.
Sam Brownback
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Money is the root cause of why our political system is broken and why Americans are so frustrated.
Conner Eldridge -
The job of elected leaders is to deliver results that represent the interests of the citizens who placed them in a position of authority with their voice, their vote. But these days, money talks louder.
Mark McKinnon -
If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you.
Donna Brazile -
I am increasingly attracted to restricting possibility in the poem by inflicting a form upon yourself. Once you impose some formal pattern on yourself, then the poem is pushing back. I think good poems are often the result of that kind of wrestling with the form.
Billy Collins -
I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.
Maurice Sendak -
I don't need any more money.
T. Boone Pickens