Money Quotes
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It is ridiculous to assume you can tax the people that are working and give the money (to people) who are not working and somehow this creates economy activity. You are destroying as much by taking from those who are working and creating.
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Teaching money management is a practical tool that will help shape kids' futures.
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This is love, moving to where the money is, and all the while a volcano or an ex-girlfriend might blow the whole thing to hell, as the Americans say. As everybody says.
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I could probably make more money if I did more commercial projects.
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As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.
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I don't use a wallet. My money is just free-flowing in my bag.
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The way I look at it, everything is a trade. You acquire some money, so then you've got no financial burdens, but everyone wants your money and so who can you trust? Or you've got no money and you can trust anyone, but then you've got the worry to pay bills. Which is worse?
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Ever since I started as an actress, just to catch up on some money, but not having an income for three years was tricky.
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You can muscle your way to the top as long as you're part of the production, which I am. I'm knitted into the money, so it's very hard to extricate me from the decision-making dynamic.
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My father, who educated his children on worldly principles, gave us much money, considering our age; not in order that we might spend it, but, as he said, to accustom us to possess money without spending it. The result was, that it led me and my brother into many sins.
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I didn't grow up with a lot of money, but I grew up with a lot of opportunities that many people don't have.
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If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you.
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Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.
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People would rather have art or gold instead of paper money.
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We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
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I think that money has changed my sport.
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Colleges spend more money on the promotion of the Heisman than the Pentagon spends on toilets.
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The message would be that the purpose of life is not to eat and drink, watch television and so on. Consuming is not the aim of life. Earning as much money as one can is not the real purpose of life. There is a superior entity, a divinity, le divin as we say in French that is worth thinking about, as are our feelings of wholeness, respect and love, if we can. A society in which these feelings are widespread would be more reasonable than the society the West presently lives in.
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I think men and women will both agree that one of the perks of being single on Valentine's Day is that you get to keep your money in your pocket.
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My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself.
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Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.
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The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.
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I met my wife, I had no money, I had nothing, and I started my family without really, my career was nowhere, but I had these other businesses, I had these things I was doing to be able to afford a small home.
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People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of entrepreneurs trying to raise money at the low end and find that they can't get funding because of this mismatch. I think that there is an opportunity there.
