- Learning
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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
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
All taxpayers feel a tremendous sense of frustration as they see many tens of billions of dollars of bonuses paid to the same mega banks that were on the brink of bankruptcy and were only saved by massive government rescue money and support. We are not satisfied by the fact that many of them have paid the money back, nor should we be.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I strongly believe in a free market, and it is great when companies make money and pay their people well.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now that people know who I am, I get offered plays here and there. It was so much easier to do it when nobody knew who I was. I can't even imagine that somebody would come and pay money just to come and see me now.
- Nov 07, 2020
I would be the first to say that while a lack of money can cause misery, money doesn't buy you happiness.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm known for value for money. I was brought up to be frugal, and it's definitely a factor in my success. I was born in the Fifties, which was a frugal era, and my family had to be very careful with money out of necessity.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I might have made more money if I had outsourced to India, and I knew I'd find it easier to hire senior managers in London. But I wanted to be in Stoke. What could be more satisfying than creating work for 3,000 people in my home town?
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a wealth creator. I'm not interested in saving in the least. While I do spend a lot, I don't spend money like other billionaires. I'm probably quite unusual, albeit I do have some of the significant trappings. But I always try to make my assets work for a living.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you throw money around like confetti, it just becomes shallow and meaningless.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was only 21 when I bought a five-bedroom detached house in Stoke-on-Trent that was way outside of my financial status in life. I did it by borrowing money from my family and the bank, taking out a huge mortgage.
- I Was Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
OK, I've made a preposterous amount of money. But I was born with the attributes needed to do it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Taxes aren't the way to go. They'd strangle the economy; you wouldn't create the wealth. And nothing squanders money as well as a government. What we need is to encourage rich people to give.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It will be almost impossible for any other candidate to raise the money that the Clintons can raise.
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- Nov 07, 2020