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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
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of us who are creative and have all these great ideas just don't have the money to do it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way I was raised, you get a new pair of sneakers when the old one gets messed up. But when I got to high school, I started dating girls and trying to fit in, and I realized everybody was collecting Jordans. When I would get my paychecks, I wouldn't even take money. I would just trade them for sneakers.
- Ghastly
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we first were working, we had no money. We were all sharing this ghastly flat and we had nothing.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even at my biggest, I want to be writing for other artists. Even at my peak - the highest I can be as an artist - I always want to be keeping my creative juices flowing, keeping money in the bank, putting my intellectual property out there.
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- Nov 07, 2020
While 'Felicity' was successful in the States, and I had opportunities to do other stuff, I didn't want to do anything to make myself more famous. I wasn't dealing well with the celebrity of all of that. I was 23 - just a kid - and not coming from money, it was all just too much. I just wanted to slow it down a little bit, and gain control.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people don't like to spend money on a journal because they're afraid to wreck it, which is understandable. I buy beautifully made leather-bound journals because I have lost my fear of the blank page.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the end of high school, I was interning for no school credit, no money, no nothing, for Jonny Shipes. He was my first entry into going to XXL, being around rappers, meeting Yams and A$AP.
- Million Dollars
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- Nov 07, 2020
A million dollars in the presidential election is a spit in the ocean. It's not a lot of money.
- Nov 07, 2020
Investors who find the best businesses to put their money behind are rewarded for their research.
- Manufacture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Business is business. I don't manufacture cars, but we do manufacture money.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
If some stock categories get too hot-and-pricey, mass supply is created via stock offerings to tap that cheap money - and, when overdone, drives it all down.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you've taken Econ 101, you know that the quantity of money rises only when the banking system makes a net loan.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Italians have always had a high savings rate. They love putting their money into their own government bonds - even more than in houses, stocks and gold. The higher rates climb, the happier they are to invest. So if austerity plans drive rates up, it's music to Italian ears.
- Nov 07, 2020