Money Quotes
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Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward sign that it is bankrupt in thought. Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!
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My worst investment decision so far is to lend money to friends. So far, it has all come to zero.
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It is simply not credible to tackle child poverty without acknowledging the worst issue - a lack of money.
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Most people find they have to worry about money; if you don't ever, then in some fundamental way, you are cut off from most people.
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I made my money the old-fashioned way; I inherited it. I think that's a great thing to do.
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There's enough money for everybody. See, I can't do what Yachty does. But then again, Yachty can't do what I do.
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At 24, I was probably making more than 95 percent of my friends. I was burning through money.
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Hedge-fund managers make too much money relative to their social utility. I wish their rewards were a bit closer to those of, say, schoolteachers.
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It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
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There are a lot of things that money can't buy, and once you realize that is how you break free.
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The National Endowment for the Arts distributes money to all 50 states, and they try to do their best to distribute to rural and suburban areas. It's one of the great things about the program. It raises the awareness of culture throughout the population.
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FreedomWorks, which is funded primarily by very rich people, solicits donations from non-rich conservative people. More than 80,000 people donated money to FreedomWorks in 2012, and it seems likely that only a small minority of those people were hedge fund millionaires.
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There is a reason companies raise money from investors, which is to invest in growth.
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We may be smaller, we may be small in number, we may have a lot less money, but there are a growing number of people who are sick and tired of the campaigns to destroy decent people, such as George Bush, Sarah Palin, Clarence Thomas, Paula Jones, Linda Tripp, Matt Drudge, Rush Limbaugh.
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Pumping iron is not what it used to be. It doesn't have the personality it used to. When we started out, people who worked out had nothing. Now there is so much money involved; back then it was the love of the sport. We appreciated what we have. Today it's not the same.
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There was no money in the sport but we'd be out there day in, day out, rain or shine, doing it.
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Whither am I going? To the New World. What to do? To gain honor? No, if I know my own heart. To get money? No: I am going to live to God, and to bring others so to do.
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The way to reduce the deficit is to create jobs and work opportunities so that people will have money with which to pay taxes.
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We’re not asking for free money as such. We are asking basically for the help and support to get liquidated on a commercial term and basis.
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In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.
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The people of Montana understand that you will never be able to take enough money from them and give it to the government to quench that thirst. The government will always spend more money.
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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.
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When you're writing is when the "god should I just drop this" feeling can hit. When you're editing is when the "god this is awful and I've wasted everyone's time and money and will be revealed as a fraud" feeling can hit.
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One day we will have more inflation, and our bonds will bleed like a pig. The only reason for buying long bonds is short-term or as a desperate haven for terrorized investors. But the potential to make longer-term real money is naught.
