- 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
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
The President sends us a billion-page paper that shows how he would spend the money if he were spending the money. He doesn't have the authority to spend the money. He doesn't spend $1 of the money.
- Being Used
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American people need to know that money is being used effectively because frankly, the nation can't afford careless spending, no matter how well-intentioned.
- Government Program
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every government program needs to be more efficient. Instead of pointing out how other programs can tighten their belts, every program administrator must look inward to save money.
- Smart
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're on a series, it's tough to go on and do something else afterward. If you're smart, save your money and you can wait out the bad times, until something else comes along.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the beginning, I didn't have to love them, my acts. It was mostly about being successful, getting a trophy, and making some money. Now if I don't love the idea of it, I don't work on it.
- As Much Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The larger point is this: We've invested over half a billion dollars in New York since this department was stood up. We've given New York more money, by more than double, than any other city in the country.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
So that's why I said, if you look at the average, you would see the money New York got this year was in line with the average across the prior three years and substantially more, by a country mile, than the money given to any other city.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody leaves a hotel without getting a full measure of three months of rental assistance. So no one has been evicted - no one who's eligible has been evicted from a hotel without getting a significant amount of money to find - to pay for their rent.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
And if we make the process political, if we start to make it personal, we're actually going to frustrate good public policy, in terms of managing this money.
- Criticisms
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I have to say, I agree with some of the criticisms that some have made about that state program which allocates the grant money on a very rigid formula all across the country, with a certain percentage to each state.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have any great ambition to go out and make money. But I am still fascinated in starting up businesses and starting it in a way and running in a way that I want to do it.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is why I wanted to be different and why I wanted to have power and fame and money: because I wanted to be attractive to the opposite sex. I'd be lying to you if I didn't say that was a big part of it.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
The post-crisis perception, at least in the media, appears to be one of Americans being held down by Wall Street, by big companies in the private sector, and by the wealthy. Capitalism is on trial. I see it a little differently. If a lender offers me free money, I do not have to take it.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020