- Poverty
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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
- Harness
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- Nov 07, 2020
We spend billions on international aid annually, but we don't find ways to connect people to dignified work. I realized that if we don't think about ways to harness private capital to solve problems, we're leaving large amounts of money on the table and doing ourselves a disservice.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
The amount of work that a for-profit has to do to get real money is minimal compared to the amount of work it takes a non-profit to get even a very small grant.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before 'Power,' I got down to $86 in my bank account. I don't know if I feel successful as much as I feel relieved because for the first time in my life I'm not scared about how I'm going to pay my rent, and I can start to put money away.
- Nov 07, 2020
Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of low-budget genre films you see are horror movies, because horror is the friendliest movie to lack of money.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Australia, most of the filmmakers there write a film and they direct it. There's a lot of writer/directors there, because nobody wants to write a script and then let it go when they've had that much of a personal investment to it, because you're not getting paid huge amounts of money in Australia to direct.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
Saw' was a film that James Wan and I came up with back in Australia and we were just hoping anyone, literally, anyone would make that film and if nobody would give us the money we were going to shoot it in a garage somewhere.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look at the idea of eliminating the state and local tax deduction as a geographic redistribution of wealth, because you're taking money from a place like New York to provide deeper tax cuts elsewhere.
- Making Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
New Yorkers are obsessed with youth and eternal youth and then their careers and making money.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
On a smash TV series, you make much more money than you ever can in a movie. Do you know how much more Bill Cosby will make than Spielberg? The money for successful television is unbelievable.
- Escaped
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moment I escaped to China, I didn't have any money; I only had one address in my hand of some long-distance Chinese relatives. I didn't know China was that big. I thought I can find their home very easily, and I would come back one week later. But then I found out the address was a 10-hour drive away.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hyesan people have money, the most after those in Pyongyang, because it's near the border with China. Illegal smuggling businesses and Chinese trading companies operate there, so people can access outside products.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The HUAC did a deal with me. I was pretty much worn down. I had no money. I couldn't borrow.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020