- 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
- Service
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of Trump's reforms is to limit the time that workers can use on the job at taxpayer expense working on union activities. What does this have to do with public service? So taxpayers have to pay overcompensated federal employees while they work on union activities so they can get even more taxpayer money.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The war on driving includes calls for carbon and gas taxes, tens of billions of gas tax money diverted to inefficient and little-used mass transit projects, and opposition to building new roads and highways.
- Bubble
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Fed is omniscient, why didn't they pull back on the excess money supply that inflated the massive housing bubble that popped so disastrously back in 2008?
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a very practical reason why Pete Sampras, for example, makes a lot more money than Martina Hingis does. He's much, much better than she is.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
- Great Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a developer, it's a great feeling knowing you have made an impact. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes with that: you have to really put the city's needs first. It's not all about making money.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always really loved clothes, although I am glad to say that my tastes have mellowed somewhat over the years. When I first played professionally and started to earn big money, almost everything I bought was by Versace.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Freakonomics' began with a 'N.Y. Times Magazine' profile I wrote about Steve Levitt. I was working on a book about 'the psychology of money,' and since Levitt's an economist, my editor thought I'd be the guy to write about him. Fact is that Levitt has almost no interest in either psychology or money.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Don King has always been an idiot in my mind. He's always been about money. I don't think he cares about anything else but himself.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of guys that play the game of basketball for the money, for the fame.
- Condescended
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do this for a while to make a little money so I could write novels. I thought movies were a second-class art form. I condescended to it - I didn't know enough to know it was really gonna be hard.
- Nov 07, 2020
I like that Brita makes tap water taste good, so you don't need to spend money or waste plastic with bottled water.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I pretty much lived movie to movie in my younger years because I loved spending money, and I didn't really have a concept of 'assets,' but as I got a little older, I bought art.
- Printing
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- Nov 07, 2020