- Business
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes people with strong ideology, whether left-wing or right-wing, refuse to do something simply because they believe it is wrong, when doing it actually benefits them. For some people, it's not just about money and political power.
- Handsome
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Charities are now working to give people in poor countries access to the Internet. But shouldn't we spend that money on providing health clinics and safe water? Aren't these things more relevant? I have no intention of downplaying the importance of the Internet, but its impact has been exaggerated.
- Hegemony
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is that the free movement of goods, people, and money that developed under British hegemony between 1870 and 1913 - the first episode of globalization - was made possible, in large part, by military might rather than market forces.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
- Studying
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one can finish my party. Just because they have money power, they think they can finish us off.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
The players wanted more money, higher salary caps and they didn't have that family relationship we felt with the players. Mentally, the players were more businesslike.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Other than the fact that I like a country house, I can't think of anything I'd want to spend my money on.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020