- 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
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.
- Business People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People pay their hard-earned money to come and watch me perform live. That's a blessing.
- Geez
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, 'Geez, this is ridiculous.' You just see through all that sort of stuff. I never liked those Deep Purples or those sort of things. I always hated it. I always thought it was a poor man's Led Zeppelin.
- Grad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to grad school in San Francisco, and then left for New York City with my eye on Broadway. I had saved $5000, which seemed like a lot of money in my mind... until I realized it was going to take $2500 to get to New York and then the first and last month's rent.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women are starting something like twice as many companies as men, but the money is primarily going to companies started by men.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people's perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it's not about money.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you think about those bailouts that happened in 2008, that was a situation in which the government gave, at our expense, enormous sums of money to some of the richest people who have ever existed on Earth.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm old enough to remember Richard Nixon. They called it the imperial presidency when he was refusing to spend money that Congress had appropriated.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020