- I Am
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- 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
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you pay a child a dollar to read a book, as some schools have tried, you not only create an expectation that reading makes you money, you also run the risk of depriving the child for ever of the value of it. Markets are not innocent.
- Behind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.
- Independence
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- Nov 07, 2020
British-built railways in India helped the British to make money and maintain order; but, as a by-product, they served to unite the country, making it ripe for independence.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Scottish grandfather, John W. Blyth, was a man addicted to paintings. A manufacturer of linen, he spent all his surplus money on pictures.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
The liberal groups spent months raising money so they could take down anyone President Bush nominated. But they have not been able to touch judge Roberts.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given this voice, I know it does sound like I've come from money. But my dad was Canadian and my mum Hungarian, so it's not like I have some high-society, upper-class English background.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to quite a nice school as a kid, where everyone was quite posh, because my dad was making some money.
- Nov 07, 2020
Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.
- Handling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm making a case against how money managers are handling customers' money. The objective of the customer is not being met if the fund managers are diversifying their assets into hundreds of businesses. If they do this, they are typically performing close to the indexes. But that's not the way wealth is created.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Big media companies have lots of money and content, but they have no way to tap into a good base of users.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course money is important - to say it is not in football would be a lie. But to find a good player with potential for a small amount of money and then to develop him in the group is a great pleasure for a manager and for a club.
- Satisfaction
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- Nov 07, 2020