- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
It's very hard to argue with someone who thinks he is God because he makes a lot of money.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
My undergraduate degree was in art history! Raising money for Chipotle was really my MBA. The money for my first restaurant came from my dad, the second from mostly cash flow. The third was an SBA loan. After my dad invested $1.5 million to open a few more, he suggested I raise the money myself for the experience.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't go to film school; I studied fine art - I learned how to be a filmmaker on everybody else's money.
- Compromise
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Senate needs 60 votes to pass anything. They have to compromise with liberal Democrats to spend more money. Even though arguably we have control of the Senate, we really don't.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to starve the Beast. That's one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it's going to be spent.
- Too
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- Nov 07, 2020
Republicans went off track. We were spending too much money.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Startups have finite time and resources to find product/market fit before they run out of money. Therefore startups trade off certainty for speed, adopting 'good enough decision making' and iterating and pivoting as they fail, learn, and discover their business model.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music is fun and all that, but first and foremost it is a business, it's about money.
- Excluded
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Montana, no one, including out-of-state corporate executives, has been excluded from spending money - or 'speaking' - in our elections. Any individual can contribute. All we require is that they use their own money, not corporate money that belongs to shareholders, and that they disclose who they are.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
The record labels used to spend money on advertising, and social media has replaced that entirely - it's putting magazines out of business. It's put big companies into completely reinventing their strategies.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020