- Power
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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
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew I wasn't going to make money in the beginning, so I found another way to support myself - I was a receptionist. It's quite smart to work that way. Otherwise, you get vicious and desperate, and no one wants to work with you. Build your career slowly; then people start to trust you and pay you well.
- Nov 07, 2020
Channel your heartbreak into work, then use that extra money to treat yourself to a new handbag.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once told Tommy Smothers, 'If I could just get the money and the women straightened out, the rest of my life would be easy.'
- Enough Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and that gave me enough money to move down here. I was washing windows down in Orange County when they called me up and said they wanted me to do their TV show.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are so few movies that still cast on chemistry. Now it's often, like, this person's movies make this amount of money, and this person's movie makes that amount of money, so let's put them together.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I started out as an anchor on television, but that was just 'me being me,' trying to make some pocket money.
- Dictatorship
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- Nov 07, 2020
To Westerners, the students at Tiananmen may have given an impression of a solid and energetic consensus against dictatorship and for democracy, but they were an egotistical and fractious lot, riven by disagreements over tactics and money.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the big myths about philanthropy is that it's all about donating funds for a cause. I like to look at it quite differently. Philanthropy is about 'giving' - not just in monetary terms but also in non-monetary aspects, like time, ideas, or being a volunteer. Donating money is just a small part of philanthropy.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not become an actor to earn money - that I could have done it in my village by becoming a farmer. I wanted to show my craft, which I am so passionate about.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe that someone who sets up an institution should be able to take out the money from the institution or pay dividends to shareholders. I am not saying that institutions should be set up for charity.
- Chunk
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- Nov 07, 2020