Money Quotes
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The best restraint is old-fashioned market discipline, in which financial traders know that they, personally, will lose a ton of money if they take risky bets that don't pan out.
David Ignatius
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I use a credit card for everything - and I choose one of the ones which gives you money back.
Frank Abagnale
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People with a lot of money don't dress as well as people who have to make do, who have to be inventive. Those are the people who are always more interestingly dressed, I think. Everything I do, I do with gut instinct. If I think too much, it won't come out right.
Iris Apfel
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I think you have to be a niche player. You've got to find smaller ideas that are going to benefit in the conditions as they are. You can change the conditions and always try to find ways to make money in the conditions as they exist.
Jim Oberweis
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When you’re signed to a big label and they’re giving money for you to do things, you can’t do whatever you want. Like, I wouldn’t be able to make a totally indie punk record. You need to find the balance.
Alma
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That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?
Lee Iacocca
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I have a nice house, nice cars, nice watches, nice things. I've got money in the bank. I'm not in need of a few quid - as it stands. It's all irrelevant to me.
Tyson Fury
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The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.
Mary Leakey
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Profile has half the publishing and they control and administer the publishing and distribute and own the records, so our group is a 10-point crew. But we got a lot of money off of the shows.
Jam Master Jay
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Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either.
Jeff Tweedy
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The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.
David Horsey
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When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread of want and desire of luxury was but one of several motives which the pursuit of money represented; the others, and with many the more influential, being desire of power, of social position, and reputation for ability and success.
Edward Bellamy
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It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the world that it makes possible - what we call 'the economy' - is so important to us that economists have become the high priests of our society. Yet, oddly, there is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is.
David Graeber
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I feel like money is an interesting thing when you don't come from it.
Kenya Barris
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I drifted into photography like one drifts into prostitution. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and eventually I did it for the money.
Philippe Halsman
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You're starting to see a lot of fighters, like, 'We want more money so we can be able to retire eventually,' instead of, we get to 30 years old, and we're like, 'Alright, I think Costco has openings.'
Demetrious Johnson
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Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.
Anton Chekhov
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Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.
Adam Smith
