Money Quotes
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When social critics deplore the materialism of our time and its preoccupation with money, fame, and superficial values, they overlook that the driving force behind the changes we have seen -- one of the greatest periods of change in history -- has been thought. It wasn't big bucks or social status that drove this change. It was, and is, the force of the play of the mind. As materialistic as we may be, playful thinking got us here.
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Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out.
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The definition of investment is the deferring ofpresent consumption for future consumption. So, you dohave to be willing to defer. And there are a couple of tricks that you can use to save money. One of them is simply to pay yourself first.
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There is a profiteer when it comes to oil. 36 to 63 cents per gallon is swept off the top. And who profits from that? The government profits from it. And what does the government do with much of that money? It puts it into so-called 'alternative energy,' with so-called phony 'green jobs' that we're yet to see being produced.
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What the entertainment industry can do is tempt you into making stupid mistakes, but the only tool that they have to tempt you is money. So if youre okay saying no to money, then you can say no to a lot of things that you might be embarrassed of later.
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When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
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Gear is money, and if there’s one thing we know about Hollywood, it’s that money talks.
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That's so ridiculous. Go up the chain and find out where on earth they got that policy. They could be costing people a lot of money.
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We need to make a game out of earning money. There is so much good we can do with money. Without it, we are bound and shackled and our choices become limited.
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I have always looked at the world through the prism of money to some degree. If you could follow the money, it explains a lot of things, in all sorts of aspects of the world. You can look at politics through the prism of money. You can look at art through the prism of money. You can look at sports through the prism of money.
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I can remember when I first got to los Angeles . I didn't have a car, I didn't have any money. I was walking the streets, you know, trying to get from place to place on foot almost. Sometimes, you know, you say, how am I ever going to get from here to there? There are a lot of people still having that dream and not being able to get there. So you never know. The idea is to keep on tap dancing, though.
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Some say writing is its own reward. I write for money, but writing for money is not so bad, especially when that writing brings you joy.
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You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money.
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People cannot live by lending money to one another.
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Money could never have originated as paper.
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If money titles meant anything, I'd play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year, then it's been a good year.
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There is no necessity in this world that requires you to have an absurd amount of money.
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There is nothing wrong with making money, but that's not particularly inspiring.
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The big money in booms is always made first by the public - on paper. And it remains on paper.
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There's only 10 guys making big bucks in wrestling, and the rest of them they're making good money, but they're not blowing it away.
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I went to a school that was founded on a lot of very radical ideals of how education should be changed. But what's happening to schools like that sort of all over the country is in economic pressure they're becoming more and more preparatory because that's what people will really pay the money for private schooling for now.
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I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.
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People will talk about money in the general sense, but not in the specific sense of, like, where'd you fail, how'd you succeed, how'd you do it.
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As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget.
