- War
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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
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before the last Olympics, we had meat raffles at the local surf club to get petrol money to go to training, to help out with the bills. But I know there are a lot of athletes worse off and that all athletes, at some stage of their careers, have made sacrifices.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so much fun that the money is just icing on the cake. There seems to be a lot of icing.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got people handling the media. I employ at the moment two people. No-one is paying income tax on the money they use to employ people.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I employed my wife for three years to sit in the attic and type up my autobiography, 700 pages, organise everywhere I go. I'm paying the normal rate of tax on the money I take out for myself.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Iain Duncan Smith and his regime, they wanted to make the poor suffer and then humiliated them by telling them that their poverty was their own fault and, to demonstrate that, if you're not up to mark then you're sanctioned and the money stops.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we leave money in the hands of taxpayers, they buy things, they pay taxes, they grow government.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've become obsessed with preserving Shaker furniture. I feel as though every influence in my life, everything I've learned and know, all the money I've made, has come together to take care of it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to make a living as a novelist. My first novel 'Tapping the Source' made quite a splash in Hollywood, and people started asking if I wanted to write scripts. I quickly realized I could make a lot more money that way.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, education is hugely important, along with healthcare. They're the basics and you're hurting your own country if you don't pour money into them.
- Losing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Strong credit markets give companies borrowing options to boost their stock prices while making bearish investors scramble to close out trades before losing any more money, both of which then push the stock market even higher and continue the self-reinforcing bullish cycle.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
None of my movies have ever made any money, so it's not about commercial success for me. It's always the same thing. I want to create something valuable, something unusual and different that the world has never seen.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020