- Mountain
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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
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my family first moved to Hempstead in the 1960s, they were one of the first black families. It used to be an all-white neighborhood, but there was white flight when the black people with money started moving in. When I was, like, 13 or 14, Hempstead had just become all black, and the poverty became worse and worse.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
As children we had traveled only in cars and led a lavish lifestyle. After father and we parted ways, we had little money to afford even petrol; I used to travel to the Tollygunge studios in the south of the city from our Dumdum home in the north by bus. I would do any role that came my way: hero's friend, or brother, or son, just about anything.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The British people voted to take back control of our borders, trade, money and laws. They chose a bright future as a free, independent and sovereign country.
- Entrepreneurial Spirit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Putting more money into families' pockets will help them with the rising cost of living, and reducing the tax burden on business will help foster the entrepreneurial spirit of those who want to start-up or grow their own firms.
- Inspirational
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was working at the Sprint store, I got laid off. I was bummed out, but I stayed positive. I used the money I had earned while working there to make my first album. Without that job, maybe 'Corazon Sin Cara' would never had been made. It's a very inspirational story.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 17, I was working at Sprint in the Bronx so I could make money to fund my own music.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 19, I got signed up for commercials, it was easy money.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was just 19 years old when I did my first film and had no plan to act, or to become an actor. It was like a paid holiday so that I could earn good pocket money and then party more with my friends.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very fast shopper. I'm very quick; whether it's big money or small money, it really doesn't matter to me. I just get all my things that I need together and get out as quickly as possible.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Had I wanted, I could have set up my own company, secured funding, and made money. That proposition, however, does not excite me, since it would be a very self-centric goal.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not interesting in making money. I go to the most expensive restaurant in Boston to have dinner. It is where billionaires come to eat. Even if I become richer, I will still have to go there to eat. After some time, money doesn't make a difference.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
American museums have become cautious, because it is very hard to get money to do something different or controversial.
- Rule
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money has to serve, not to rule.
- Dictatorship
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- Nov 07, 2020