Money Quotes
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Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans whose ancestors bought a great parcel of land in 1780 and have been accumulating family wealth by collecting rents ever since. In America, that old money is long gone - through instability, inflation, taxes, philanthropy, and spending.
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I want to make money for third-world-country kids, and I need to be smart about how to do it.
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It is not widely known that, ever since the end of the Korean War, the United States has spent essentially the same amount of money on defense, in real terms, every single year.
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THERE WAS NEVER A SCHINDLER'S LIST. It was drawn up by a man called Goldman. This man took money to put a name on that list - no money, no place on the list. I was told this by a Dr Schwartz, in Vienna; he had paid in diamonds to save his wife.
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Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
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People nowadays are obsessed with golden awards, about who is the best — when we know in reality the one with more money wins.
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I don't want money badly enough to work for it.
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Enthusiasm for conservation can be fashioned into a nasty weapon for those who dislike business on general principles.
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My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
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I've been a professional actor now for 38 years. A long time. And it's wonderful to earn your living doing something that you love. To think people actually give you money for it!
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A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used.
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Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.
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People cannot live by lending money to one another.
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NASA is increasingly not the future of space exploration. I love the fact that we have private sector folks devoting a lot of money to stimulate innovation in space technology.
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I'm a strong man. If someone needs my help, my money, my know-how, anything I possess, I'm always ready.
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If you don't master money, it's going to master you.
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This isn't about fans, greed or money. It's about being morally right or wrong. Nobody is governing the way music gets from artists to fans. It's all running amok.
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I only love when money makes a difference and not makes you different.
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The key to long-term survival and prosperity has a lot to do with the money management techniques incorporated into the technical system.
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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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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 really wish there was some big brother conspiracy theory. I just think it's the ignorance of trying to make a dollar. That's what the networks have done and will continue to do. If anyone doesn't think that this is about making money, then they're crazy.
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She loves performing - they end up standing and cheering. She loves being independent, she loves making money on her own. She doesn't need to, but old folks worry about money, and this is one way to keep the paranoia at bay.
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It's not always about the money.
