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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
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
We will accept no corporate PAC money, and we're not going to be driven by the polls.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe with great fortunes come great responsibility, so with our family's assets and many wealthy friends, we could help raise a lot of money to help others.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Las Vegas, the magnitude is impressive, but the humanity is gone. It feels like you're being intimidated out of your money instead of inviting you to come have this experience.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like apartments - the idea of other people living, copulating and defecating above me - they make me feel as trapped as a slice of ham in a sandwich. When I was a student in Paris, I always rented attics right at the top of buildings, and as soon as I was making enough money, I bought houses.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was 1999, and we were building a way for college kids to create online profiles for the purpose of sharing... with employers. Oops. I vividly remember the moment I realized my company was going to fail. My co-founder and I were at our wits' end. By 2001, the dot-com bubble had burst, and we had spent all our money.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality is the Lean Startup method is not about cost, it is about speed. Lean startups waste less money, because they use a disciplined approach to testing new products and ideas.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Many lean startups are ambitious and are able to deploy large amounts of capital. What differentiates them is their disciplined approach to determining when to spend money: after the fundamental elements of the business model have been empirically validated.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, it's not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion. That becomes more true the higher the skill level gets.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're not allowed to lure people into spending their money or betting their money based on false representations.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unlike most traditional, season-long fantasy sports sites, which make most of their money from administrative fees and advertising, FanDuel and DraftKings take a cut of every bet. That is what bookies do, and it is illegal in New York.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the 1970s, when President Nixon's illegal campaign cash was used as a secret slush fund to pay for the Watergate burglary and cover-up, Americans have demanded to know where the money fueling our elections is coming from.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a donor is asked to contribute to a group whose innocuous-sounding name makes it appear to be doing work in the public interest, that donor should have a clear picture of where his or her money is going.
- Disclosure
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- Nov 07, 2020
More money is being spent on our elections, with less disclosure of where that money is coming from, than ever before.
- East Coast
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- Nov 07, 2020
The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020