- 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 have seen extreme lows because of factors that were not in my hands - be it not having money to buy my first bike, dropping out of a prestigious engineering college without having a single rupee in my bank account, living with seven boys in a single-room kitchen in Mumbai, or eating nothing but khichdi every day. But I cherish all those moments.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had always been fascinated by comics, but it had taken me several weeks to make up my mind to buy 'Watchmen'; for someone on a publisher's assistant's salary, it was some quite unheard-of sum of money.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that's another story.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to dance topless for two years to make cash to pay my bills and save some money. But it was very enlightening, by the way. I'm talking about light from the gutter.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always told my children that Americans will tell you pretty much anything, but that convention dictates that we don't like to talk money or politics.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a time when I just didn't have the opportunities, which meant going without things in my life - whether it was clothes, or food, or money - and living a really bare-bones life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A budget matters to people who worry about protecting and saving critical programs like Medicare and Social Security. A budget matters to younger workers who fear that more and more money will be taken from their paychecks to fund another generation's spending spree.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first venture was to trade bicycle parts and hosiery yarn. The initial days proved to be difficult, and I earned very little from my business. But I kept at it. Each day, when I retired for the night, I told myself that money would come in the next day.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
To fly into Moscow was a joy. I was trying to understand what people were thinking and how to earn money. In the end, I stayed.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My aunt put my cousins into a children's modelling agency, then my mum did it with us. Me and my sister got a few TV adverts, which was good pocket money. A director saw photos of me and asked me to do a short film.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020