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- 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
We all want to make money.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the amount of money that the country is going to spend this year on health care, you can go out and hire a doctor for every seven families in the US and pay the doctor almost $230,000 a year to cover them.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Protect IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are a step towards a different kind of Internet. They are a step towards an Internet in which those with money and lawyers and access to power have a greater voice than those who don't.
- Creation
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- Nov 07, 2020
A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.
- Each Year
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I joined the police force with one motivation in mind: to become a high school PE teacher. After a year of working, I realized that a) I was making twice as much money as I would in the teaching profession, and b) I was having too much fun. I stuck it out for 32 years and no regrets.
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's one reason I retired as a sergeant and not at a higher rank... I refused to 'play the game' the way the bosses wanted the game played. It is a decision that has cost me money in retirement pay but one that I have never regretted.
- Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.
- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.
- Brokerage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker.
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- Nov 07, 2020