Dollars Quotes

• I certainly wouldn't say that we loved the arms race. Trillions of dollars were used to stoke it. For our economy, which was smaller in size than the American economy, it was a burden. But one cannot agree with the statement that the arms race played the key role in the collapse of the Soviet Union.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Economy
  • Collapse
  • Soviet

• We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.

  

  William Glasser
  • Long
  • School
  • Teacher

• I think in Baghdad, any westerner, journalist or not, has a big dollar sign on his or her forehead. So, first and foremost, you are a ticket to unimaginable wealth. And that makes any trips out of the safe zones very risky.

  

  Yaroslav Trofimov
  • Thinking
  • Dollars
  • Baghdad

• Lipstick on your collar said you were untrue. Bet your bottom dollar, you and I are through.

  

  Connie Francis
  • Said
  • Bottom
  • Lipstick

• I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Luxury
  • Dollars

• Nobody's coming to me with 60 million dollars to turn it into a 315 million dollar juggernaut even though I created the Huffington Post.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Turns
  • Million Dollars
  • Juggernaut

• If we can produce more ethanol and bio-diesel to help fuel our vehicles, we will create jobs, boost local economies and produce cleaner burning fuels. This will keep dollars here at home where they can have a positive impact on our economy.

  

  Rick Renzi
  • Burning
  • Fuels
  • Economies

• The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when war becomes that profitable, we're going to see more of it.

  

  Chalmers Johnson
  • War
  • Lasts
  • Defense

• Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Tree
  • Paint
  • Dollars

• This is a robbery, boy, gimme them dollars. We hit the lottery, boy, it's in ya wallets!

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Rap
  • Boys
  • Lottery

• The greatest million dollar insight I can give anybody is find a big problem and then solve it in a big way.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Giving
  • Problem
  • Bigs

• I'd bet a million dollars on DOOM against Lil' Wayne

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Dollars
  • Doom
  • Wayne

• You don't have to make, you know, $3 Million dollars a movie, or $20 Million dollars a movie, but if you make a living doing what you love doing, then that's success to me.

  

  Ving Rhames
  • Dollars
  • Millions

• I know a fat girl, she wears an orange skirt. You give her twenty dollars and you can do your work.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Work
  • She
  • Girl

• In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Great
  • Music
  • Experience

• I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it; two, when you have it. The third kick it when you give it away - and it is the biggest kick of all.

  

  William Allen White
  • People
  • Giving
  • Teach

• The fact that there isn't a performance right for the use of sound recordings on ­terrestrial radio means there's hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign income that doesn't come to the artists in America.

  

  Neil Portnow
  • Mean
  • Artist
  • Sound

• Donald Trump is so unpredictable that foreigners are going to look around and say "boy, we've got to head for the safe havens." And one of the safe havens is Treasurys and another is the dollar.

  

  Gary Shilling
  • Looks
  • Safe
  • Unpredictable

• CNN stands to make a hundred million dollars more than it's expected lift for the election cycle, due to the phenomenon that is Donald Trump.

  

  David Folkenflik
  • Election
  • Expected
  • Phenomenon

• I was guaranteed a hundred thousand dollars a year for five years, which was big money in the early 60's. You think, acquiring that should cool you out, but for me it wasn't true.

  

  Dion
  • Thinking
  • Should
  • Thousand

• It is being paid for by private dollars. … The city is not paying for it; the city has no dollars in this. … I don't know the shape of the bus, I don't know the color of the bus, I don't know the length for the bus. I just know that we're going to provide buses that are going to be paid for by private dollars.

  

  Catherine E. Pugh
  • Paid
  • Private
  • Bus

• If the dollar weakens, then presumably all the things that we make in the United States - Buicks, for instance - can be sold cheap all over the world, and everyone will be buying our goods, and we'll get all sorts of yen-denominated, or yuan-denominated, or euro-denominated securities, and then everybody else will be worried.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • United States
  • Dollars

• As president of the largest Jewish organization, I disposed of budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars; I directed thousands of employees, and all this, I emphasize again, not for one particular state, but within the frame work of International Jewry.

  

  Nahum Goldmann
  • Work
  • President
  • Organization

• I'm disturbed because the doctors tell me I'm as sound as a dollar.

  

  John G. Diefenbaker
  • Sound
  • Doctors
  • Disturbed

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