Money Quotes
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There is one bit of advice given us by the ancient Greeks, and by the Jews in the Old Testament, and by the great Christian teachers of the Middle Ages, which the modern economic system has completely disobeyed. All these people told us not to lend money at interest; and lending money at interest - what we call investment - is the basis of our whole system.
C. S. Lewis
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Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.
Caroline Kennedy
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The HUAC did a deal with me. I was pretty much worn down. I had no money. I couldn't borrow.
Lee J. Cobb
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Teaching is a truly noble profession. It's sad the amount of responsibility that teachers have today. They're not only teaching kids: they're raising kids, policing kids - and they don't make a lot of money.
Jesse L. Martin
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May I stress the need for courageous, intelligent, and dedicated leadership... Leaders of sound integrity. Leaders not in love with publicity, but in love with justice. Leaders not in love with money, but in love with humanity. Leaders who can subject their particular egos to the greatness of the cause.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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My parents worked enormously hard to put four children through college. We didn't have a lot of money.
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
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I mean, look, teachers don't do their job for the money, obviously, because we pay them ridiculously little amounts for what they put in. Most of them come out of their own pocket for materials and things to help the children and all that.
Phil McGraw
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Mysterious can be cool, if you're in Hollywood and everyone's happy. But it can be really bad if people perceive that the financial interests are adversarial, that there's money versus people. A lot of Goldman Sachs people went into government, so at a time when there's a distrust of institutions, some of that reflects on us.
Lloyd Blankfein
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I've been given my money. Nobody has ever beaten me out of one quarter. And that's all I've ever been concerned about.
Jesse Stone
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I mean, the way I see it is, every penny I've ever made through music is free money.
Melissa Auf der Maur
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The goal of a successful trader is to make the best trades. Money is secondary.
Alexander Elder
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The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more.
James Chanos
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People'd be like, "Oh, spending taxpayer money." It's like, "No, no, I actually I'm paying for all of this. The only thing I don't pay for is Secret Service and an airplane."
Barack Obama
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I was 18 and making 150 quid a week, which was a lot of money to me. Then there was a bad winter and I got paid off. Then my firm, JW Henderson of Bowling Green Street, Leith, went bust. If they hadn't folded, I'd probably still be scaffolding and loving it.
Jamie Sives
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I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.
John Wanamaker
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I could probably make more money if I did more commercial projects.
Blake Lively
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If I can raise more money for charities, or get more Canadian kids to play golf, the green jacket will mean even more.
Mike Weir
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I remember being a young boy in Spain and watching my parents cook. We didn't go to a lot of restaurants because we didn't always have the money, so cooking at home was just what we did.
Jose Andres
