- 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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm realistic. And realistically, I'm not that type of player that earns that type of money any more. So I'd be willing to take a little cut to get a couple of extra years.
- Buy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I had a steady job, I was broke, and I didn't have any money to buy anything, so I would illegally download stuff.
- Director
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control.
- Big Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Barkley was the first of many American skyjackers whose primary interest was money; by 1972, the majority of the nation's hijackings would involve demands for ransom. Barkley himself was declared incompetent to stand trial in November 1971, at which point he was committed to a psychiatric hospital in Georgia.
- Newspaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
A duped newspaper or magazine could contend that a fiction-spouting journalist obtained part of his salary via fraud, and use a criminal proceeding to try and recoup that money. Given the profession's notoriously low wages, however, it's probably not worth the publicity headache and legal fees. No news organization has ever pursued such a case.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fame and money and all that - you hear people say it a lot, but they don't mean a thing to me.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
You must figure out where the money is coming from. Money won't come find you. There are a ton of genius technologists in the blockchain space, but the harder part is figuring out how to make money.
- Copies
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- Nov 07, 2020
We got involved with the RepRap Project, a community focused on making 3-D printers that could make copies of themselves and help create a world without money. We started making prototypes.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
We raised $10 million in 2011. Our rule was, we wouldn't accept money from anybody we didn't want to have dinner with.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I need to be able to save some money, so I can buy a house.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very excited to see where the characters and their relationships go. But in the end, it really boils down to the people who have more power than me, who control the money.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
In July of 2010, I lost my finance job in Chicago. Instead of updating my resume and looking for a similar job, I decided to forget about money and have a go at something I truly enjoyed. I'd purchased a semi-professional camera earlier that year and spent my free time taking photos in downtown Chicago.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only things I make money on are speeches and books.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politicians - in both political parties - spend too much money. And they forget to focus on what matters most: fixing the economic mess they created and putting people back to work.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020