- Nov 07, 2020
Money Quotes
On earning, spending and money's honest reality.
These quotes take a candid look at money: the shifting economics behind building a winning team, the blunt math of a manager's career, and the mixed blessing of money attracting the wrong kind of attention. For more, see our Status quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them - which was much higher than what the trader was giving them.
- Limitless
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- Nov 07, 2020
Business money is limitless.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are starving and young and in search of answers as to why your life is so difficult, fundamentalism can be alluring. We know this for a fact because former members of Boko Haram have admitted it: They offer impressionable young people money and the promise of food, while the group's mentors twist their minds with fanaticism.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I personally think that money can do very little. And this has been my experience all across.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to manage money. Particularly with market economies. You may have a great product, but if your bottom line goes bust, then that's it.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am really fond of drawing, painting mehendi, so I would draw mehendi on a groom's hand and earn money.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020