Money Quotes
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Recently I donated money to the establishment of the Muhammad Ali Foundation in Louisville. I regard that as a kind of payback. He smoothed the way for us. He wasnt just a great person who had conviction, but made the sport of boxing great. He was the first superstar, he made our stock rise. Without him we wouldnt have earned so much. Americans from every walk of life have contributed to the foundation: Bill Clinton, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt. Unfortunately I was the only American athlete to make a donation. Theres not enough respect in our business.
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It's bad for baseball to have owners who can benefit another business by losing money in baseball.
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Who owns the assets of our Nation? Increasingly, foreign interests own our assets, and we owe them money. No wonder people think our country is headed in the wrong direction. It is.
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To turn a human being into a part-canine or lupine creature takes a good deal of artistry and money.
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Money alone can't bring you happiness, but money alone has not brought me unhappiness. I won't say my previous husbands thought only of my money, but it had a certain fascination for them.
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I wasn't used to the attention, I wasn't used to having money, I wasn't used to being the main focus on an NBA team.
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In 1971, the U.S. 'closed the gold window,' starting an era of global fiat money reference-pricing that has been unprecedented in history. Never before had the world operated on the basis of no country anywhere having a currency tied to something with intrinsic value like gold.
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A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
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I knew I could make money from songwriting, so how much and when was not really the question.
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I don't think that any economist disputes that we're in the worst economic crisis since the great depression. The good news is that we're getting a consensus around what needs to be done.
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“Money," he said, "is a terrible nuisance. But it's nice not to have to worry.”
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The rise of democracy was driven by the citizens' desire to escape from the paternalistic and arbitrary charity of those with money. They accomplished this by replacing charity with a fair, balanced, arm's-length system of public obligation. The principle tool of that obligation was taxation.
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Don't get the idea that I've turned green. My business is making money, and I think this is going to make a lot of money.
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It is essential that we stop worrying about money and stop resenting our bills.
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Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I almost go into convulsions.
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Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.
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People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to.
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When starting out, don't worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.
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It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.
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Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.
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A lot of money could be saved if we ate urban wildlife.
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The perfect guy is not the one who has the most money or the most handsome one you'll meet. He is the one who knows how to make you smile and will take care of you each and everyday until the end of time.
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Money is like manure. If you spread it around, it does a lot of good, but if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell.
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You have a deeper purpose that drives you. You have to talk to yourself about what that purpose is. If you run through like a hamster to chase fame or money, you might end up wasting your life away. You find what drives you and gives you energy.
