Money Quotes
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Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money.
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Wall Street figured out that, with the amount of money they could make off timber harvests, relative to the rapid increase in land prices, the return on investment isn't enough. It's become more important as a real estate investment than as a forest-management investment.
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Having money is great. It's fun. The more the better.
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We're making money? We're also incurring amazing expenses - huge - as we hire more people, want more equipment.
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We have more franchisees that want to pay us money than we have locations to go into.
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In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem.
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There's nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Many lean startups are ambitious and are able to deploy large amounts of capital. What differentiates them is their disciplined approach to determining when to spend money: after the fundamental elements of the business model have been empirically validated.
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It was the economic benefit,You make a comfortable living in public service and you get a fairly comfortable retirement, if you watch your pennies and you're not extravagant. But in television, if a show goes, you make a substantial amount of money. So, economically it just didn't make sense for me not to.
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No doubt, I am earning more money with my endorsements than I ever earned playing soccer.
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The first year I had money, I really went shopping. I got really caught up in it. I bought all my brothers sets of luggage, and I bought 'em winter coats from Giorgio Armani - winter coats. And I got a pair of socks from this brother.
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You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.
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Not using fly ash in our highways would just be a plain waste of taxpayers' money, which I find unacceptable. Most people don't realize that without fly ash, many of Montana's infrastructure projects simply would not have been possible - like the Hungry Horse Dam near Glacier National Park.
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Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.
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It never hurts for potential opponents to think you're more than a little stupid and can hardly count all the money in your hip pocket, much less hold on to it.
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It's appalling how much money raised at some charity events gets wasted on paying personnel and admin staff.
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I may not have married for very sound reasons, but money was the least of them.
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Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.
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Very often, I think about the people that I represent. I meet people who have thousands and thousands of employees and millions and millions of customers - and also make a lot of money. But I think about the millions of Europeans that I represent in order to try to balance that so we can meet on more equal terms.
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A long time ago, I took a walk down a street in Harlem in New York City. I came upon a man who asked me for a dollar. He had asked a few other people before me, but they only passed him by without glancing his way. I stopped and handed the man some money. As I began to turn away, he reached out and shook my hand. He looked me in the eyes and said, "I will bless you." Now, I'm not saying that was God Himself. But how do we know that it wasn't someone working for him, walking around in disguise, just to see what we would do?
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The voters of Hawaii have said loud and clear that it's not money that wins elections.
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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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Sometimes, people will fight over five, six percent, because if it's a smash record, that can mean a lot of money. I don't really care.
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People who have put money aside on the basis of a certain set of rules shouldn't have that money raided just because government has got a problem.
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This is a government program run amok, and we owe it to the taxpayers to find out exactly what happened before Eagle-Net wastes any more money.
