- 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
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my business, you could be making money one day, and the next day you could be serving up burgers at McDonald's. So if you want to be able to stay on top of your game, you've got to keep with it.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
The influence I would hope to have is to create an environment where we're not singling Americans out - that we are creating opportunities for all Americans. Not saying, 'I'm going to funnel money into your city so that you're completely dependent on government.'
- Gatekeepers
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real important thing about Digital-Original publication goes beyond the fact that authors make more money off each sale than through traditional publishing. It's that we get to bypass a system of gatekeepers who have more than 'quality' as criteria for what they choose.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prior to 2009, when publishers scoffed at the ebook market, they offered writers contracts which gave us half of the money they made off ebook sales.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
People downloading my stories from the bit torrent sites were never going to buy them anyway. It's no money out of my pocket.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
Another is, if you take money out of your left pocket and put it in your right pocket, you're no richer.
- Making Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're either making money or you're not. If you're not making money get out of the business.
- Cheaply
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can make great money in a utility type of business by borrowing cheaply and lending sensibly but that's not what's being done.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote a post about wanting to buy a banjo - a $300 banjo, which is a lot of money, and I don't play instruments; I don't know anything about music. I like music, and I like banjos, and I think I probably heard Steve Martin playing, and I said, 'I could do that.' And I said to my husband, I said, 'Ben, can I buy a banjo?' And he's like, 'No.'
- Framed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money has always been framed as a public good, one that must be stewarded by governments, when in fact, it is a private enterprise like any other which is fueled by personal agendas, regulation, and the quest for geopolitical hegemony.
- Financial System
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- Nov 07, 2020
Digital currencies present a chance for money to truly become information, and for the creation of a global financial system that is truly frictionless, open, and uncensored - the vision we once had for the Internet.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, the way I see it is, every penny I've ever made through music is free money.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020