- People
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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
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
My taxes alone keep eight lawyers busy, and when I finally get my money, it's only one-third of what I earn. With the kids in school and my other responsibilities, I get no change back from the first million dollars. The money flows out like water.
- Create
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even while we busily attend meetings, contribute money and perform our assigned tasks, we suspect that we may be helping to create a force that is inimical to many values we hold dear.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservatives believe the economy functions better if the rich have more money and everyone else has less. But they're wrong. It's just the opposite.
- Bets
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America, people with lots of money can easily avoid the consequences of bad bets and big losses by cashing out at the first sign of trouble.
- Materials
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The monied interests are doing what they do best - making money. The rest of us need to do what we can do best - use our voices, our vigor, and our votes.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most financiers, corporate lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants are competing with other financiers, lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants in zero-sum games that take money out of one set of pockets and put it into another.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct.
- Saying
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I joined a band because I didn't like school, and there's nothing else I'd rather have done. If I really wanted to make money, I'd be in real estate. But I'm rich enough. I have a son and daughter, a lovely home, and if I see something I like, I can buy it. That's rich enough.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.
- Economics
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my early days, I wrote my dissertation for MIT at the London School of Economics, really under James Meade, but my dissertation was five chapters on the theory of capital movement, but it didn't mention money.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020