- 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
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Fed should make a clear commitment to stable money to reduce the swings in interest rates and inflation. Instead, it champions and flaunts unstable money. This encourages momentum trading and the growth of derivatives. Meanwhile, layers of financial regulation make Washington bigger and more powerful but don't fix the underlying problems.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The paradox is that money never meant anything to me. And it still doesn't, except now as an occasion for regret in that there are things that I want to make sure my family is protected when I pass.
- Better Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
A syndicate is a group that has gotten together to pool their money so they can cover more contingencies. If I come to track with, say, $200, and I join a syndicate of 20 people, each of whom can bet $200, we can spread our bets, and that gives us a better chance of winning.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.
- Czech Republic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just have these terrible memories of our first European tour back in 2007. We had hired this van and tour service from the former Czech Republic called Fluff Wheels, and they sent us out with this 19-year-old vegan driver kid who had no money and refused to eat anything.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.
- Making Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Filmmaking is hard. I mean, it's not that hard, but it is hard to find your way through a system because there's a lot of people, there's money, there's a big machine to kind of make it - and how to find methods and processes that allow it to continue to be a lively process and a creative process.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.
- Big Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
1900 was a bit of mixed bag, it seems to me, on the one hand, because this is the year when this country becomes the premiere producer of manufactured goods. Clearly, a lot of people were making a lot of money, but it's also a time that reflects the savaging of one of the deepest depressions.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages.
- Mechanism
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- Nov 07, 2020