- Nothing
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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
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The game needs to be funded by sponsors, by members, by broadcasters. There needs to be a commercial relationship between the FFA and the people who supply the money so it is a natural alliance. Sport is not a charity.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family are big philanthropists, but not at putting big money into sport. Today sport is professional. It has to support itself or it won't exist. It cannot depend on a few wealthy people making donations.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
If somebody wants me to speak in, say, Chicago, a limousine picks me up at the door to brings me to the airport. I fly at the front of the plane, and a limousine meets me at the other end to take me to a grand hotel, and usually an envelope is left for me with a per diem, maybe $150-a-day walking around money, and then I go home.
- Sports
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every now and then, I get a free ticket from someone, and I look at the price, and it says $800, and I'm thinking, 'A thousand dollars to see,' I said, 'There's no ballgame in the world worth that kind of money,' and yet the attendance for sports is more than it ever has been.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is more important for Labour to raise the reputation of politics than for the Tories, who are only in politics for the money.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
While NASA talks about 'Are we alone?' as a number one question, they are putting zero money into searching for intelligent life. There's a big disconnect there.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself.
- Compels
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture.
- Needs
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- Nov 07, 2020
With money, who needs friends?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think everyone should sell whatever product they want to sell for whatever price they want to sell it for, but ultimately the market will dictate what it is and people will have to charge less money for everything. Record companies have been overcharging people for way too long and now this is the trouble that they're in.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
My trainer, George Francis, used to train a lot of African boxers. They're hungry guys, man. They've got no trainers, got nothing. They're so hungry to do boxing, to make some money.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020