Money Quotes
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I come from a very affluent family. I have been educated in one of the finest institutions of the world. Money was never a factor in my life: by the grace of God, I was blessed with a golden spoon.
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A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get some of the profit he brings in. Don't make any difference if it's baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It's business, I tell you. There ain't no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff.
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I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.
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Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control.
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Money can be exchanged for goods and services!
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I just try to make as much money as possible. However I can do it. With as much integrity as I can have.
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You can't expect to make all this money and not go through problems. You can't expect God to give you everything you want without taking something away.
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Money, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil.
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Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.
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The present fashion system is too hard - there are too many collections. The designers have no time to think! Money is too important. Schedules are too crazy.
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I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money.
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I launched Chefs for Humanity, a national nonprofit, with my voice, heart and money from my own pocket. Money gives you the ability to make a difference in the world and, when used in a positive way, is a lot of fun.
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If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.
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I've always been bored with just making money. I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going. What money meant to me was that I was able to get money to do that for me.
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What you don't do is contacting someone you haven't reached out for 10 years and asking for money.
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I have the advantage of being pretty small, so if I'm flying myself, I'm flying coach. To save the money. I just put in my headphones, and it's no big thing. I keep my head down, wear a hoodie or a hat - but sometimes not even that. I'm small. People miss me.
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Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.
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In business, you're trying to make a buck. God was good to me and blessed me. I made some money and started this foundation years ago, and it has grown in size. With the foundation it's a lot different, because the bottom line isn't how you can make more money or get a better return, it's helping the projects that you feel strongly about move forward.
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In any area of human endeavour, there is going to be mediocrity. You're going to find people who get money that they shouldn't get.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it.
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Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.
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Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
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I think America is a really interesting place. In New Zealand, we don't sue each other really commonly. There's a really specific reason, like someone's arguing over a fence that's been put up that's too high. Sort of practical things. And journalists are rarely sued for things. Whereas in America, you have a culture where that's the first thing you do. There's an ongoing pattern here where if you've got money, you can bully other people into doing what you want them to do. You don't need to be in it to win, you just need to be in it to be a pest.
