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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether it's a penalty or a tax, it's all one in the same. It's coming out of somebody's hard-earned money in their pocketbooks and that's the point. So in some ways, to me, it's a distinction without a difference.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm old enough to have friends and contemporaries who have long since retired, and that's their prerogative - enough is enough; it doesn't mean a thing to me. But I haven't got any money, so, you know, I just keep on working.
- Estate Tax
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- Nov 07, 2020
The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
For 'Paul's Boutique,' we had a lot more money and a lot more time. It was definitely more on our own terms.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
My movies don't make any money, and they don't really light the world on fire. But I'm really lucky because I've gotten them made.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
As Ronald Reagan understood, the difference between a good tax structure and a poor one has a very real impact not only on how much money we have in our pockets every April 15th, but whether we have a job to support our families in the first place.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
The economy grows when families can spend money on personal priorities rather than priorities imposed by the federal government.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Puerto Rico, I played in all kinds of bands that played salsa and merengue. That's how I saved the money to come to the U.S. We used to play El Gran Combo tunes. Half the band was my friends - we were around 15 - and the other half was my friend's father and his friends from the hospital where he worked. They were all, like, 50.
- Politicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Washington, politicians worry about their 'base.' About polls. About ideology. About raising money. About re-election. They measure their future in two- or six-year increments.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020