- 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
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the beginning, make no mistakes, I'm a prizefighter and doing this for the money. Money first. And then championships.
- Plan
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Tom Strong thing was totally for the money. I plan to get looser after I finish this Maggie saga.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the reason I got into it is because you get to be someone else. There are, like, two percent of people in the actors' union who actually make money off of it, so I feel very blessed to be here.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Free Trade puts consumers at the centre of economic activity. It lowers the cost of imports, which gives people the opportunity to buy more with the same amount of money: domestic producers have to compete with the lowest global costs or invest in new business.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Subsidising inefficient businesses does not encourage them to become more competitive and means that extra money has to be taken from tax payers for the same result. Inevitably, this reduces the total size of the economy and lowers living standards.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A poor worker is taxed heavily to receive his own money back with a modest supplement. Surely it would be more efficient just to pay the supplement and take him out of direct tax altogether.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We think nothing of protecting consumers from faulty toasters or unsafe cars. Is it unreasonable to suggest that investors are entitled to information they can trust before investing their hard-earned money? I don't think it's unreasonable at all.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is disconcerting to sit with your parent and find you're turning over your future to your government, which can't manage their money.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never been a believer that nice clothes should only be for people with money.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020