- Man
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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
- Big Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's going to be a Google or a Facebook or a Zynga every three to five years. Those are really big ideas that do return substantial amounts of money.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were never as many big businesses as people were piling money into in the late 90's or early 2000's. This is really a lesson to institutional investors about how much capital the market can absorb, and it's a 10-year adjustment cycle, and we're only beginning to wake up to that.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be one of the greats. I feel like the money and all that is going to come, but I want to be a name that, like, when you say Nas or Jay Z, that's forever.
- Commitment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money should not, and must not, change our commitment to solving problems and building this state.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.
- Guess
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money grants you freedom, I guess.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
We moved to a town that's predominately Caucasian, some Hispanic and one or two black families, and they do shrimping for a living. Here come hundreds of Vietnamese doing the same occupation. So there was a lot of tension because people were saying we were taking money, shrimp, fish or whatever it is.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a poor kid. I came from nothing. We didn't have any money; a lot of times we didn't have any food, and now, all of a sudden, I'm a superhero in a Marvel movie? Talk about the American dream, man - I'm living it.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
My hero Socrates trained Plato on a rock. How much did that cost? So the greatest minds in history became the greatest minds in history without spending a lot of money.
- Credits
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fannie and Freddie made two-thirds of all subprime mortgages. That is not a free market institution. That entity, along with the Fed printing too much money back in '03 and '04, caused the housing collapse. So we need to take free markets seriously. That means we have to put an end to all these tax credits and tax deductions and loopholes.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that happens when people make the leap from a certain amount of money to tens of millions of dollars is that the people around you dramatically change.
- Have Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want the money. I don't want the drama. I just want to do my show. I want to have fun again.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a vested interested in controlling you.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020