Money Quotes
Money is one of those subjects everyone thinks about but few discuss honestly. This collection gathers wry, candid, and surprisingly thoughtful observations about wealth, income, and our complicated relationship with financial life -- from Einstein puzzling over taxes to Oscar Wilde's dry confession about its importance.
Whether you need a line for a finance blog, a speech, a social media caption, or an essay on values, you will find something here. Browse the full collection below.
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“The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.”
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“I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.”
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“When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.”
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“The lack of money is the root of all evil.”
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“A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.”
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“A penny saved is a penny earned.”
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“Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.”
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“Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.”
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“Greed is not a financial issue. It's a heart issue.”
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“If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.”
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“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.”
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“Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.”
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“Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.”
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“It's all about the money.”
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“A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.”
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“There's no such thing as a free lunch.”
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“A good reputation is more valuable than money.”
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“If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.”
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“A fool and his money are soon parted.”
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“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”
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“My pride fell with my fortunes.”
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“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
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“Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.”
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“The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.”
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“Money often costs too much.”
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“A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.”
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“A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.”
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“Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky.”
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“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
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“Lack of money is the root of all evil.”
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“Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.”
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“Wealth flows from energy and ideas.”
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“All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.”
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“Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.”
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“That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'.”
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“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”
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“A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.”
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“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.”
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“Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.”
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“Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.”
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“The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.”
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“Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.”
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“If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!”
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“Do what you love and the money will follow.”
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“A man with money is no match against a man on a mission.”
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“Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.”
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“No man's credit is as good as his money.”
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“A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.”
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“Money is just a way of keeping score.”
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“There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.”
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“Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.”
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“Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.”
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“Real riches are the riches possessed inside.”
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“It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.”
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“Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.”
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“Money: power at its most liquid.”
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“It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.”
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“Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.”
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“An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.”
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“Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.”
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“It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.”
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“I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers.”
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“Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.”
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“I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is.”
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“Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.”
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“Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.”
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“As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.”
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“My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.”
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“Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.”
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“The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.”
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“Don't judge me. I made a lot of money.”
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“Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.”
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“Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.”
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“A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.”
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“Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.”
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“There is no such thing as a good tax.”
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“Business is other people's money.”
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“Affluence creates poverty.”
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“Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.”
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“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”
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“Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.”
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“It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.”
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“In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.”
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“Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.”
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“The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.”
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“There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.”
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“Money is a mechanism for control.”
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“No one's ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that's abandoned by February.”
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“Never spend your money before you have earned it.”
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“I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.”
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“The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.”
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“All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.”
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“A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.”
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“I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.”
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“Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.”
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“Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.”
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“The substitute for knowledge is money.”
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“If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.”
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“So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?”
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“It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.”
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“A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.”
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“You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.”
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“I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend.”
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“There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!”
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“And plenty makes us poor.”
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“It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.”
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“Money equals freedom.”
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“I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.”
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“He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.”
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“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.”
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“Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.”
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“Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.”
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“A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.”
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“If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.”
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“After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.”
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“If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.”
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“Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.”
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“I don't spend much money on clothes; I never did.”
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“Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.”
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“I have always been afraid of banks.”
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“I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.”
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“Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.”
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“You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.”
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“Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.”
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“For I can raise no money by vile means.”
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“You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.”
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“I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.”
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“Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.”
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“Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them.”
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“Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.”
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“If you want to reap financial blessings, you have to sow financially.”
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“A man in debt is so far a slave.”
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“The most efficient labor-saving device is still money.”
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“Money just draws flies.”
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“All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.”
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“Very few people can afford to be poor.”
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“I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.”
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“The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.”
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“Research indicates that most women want their man to earn more than they do.”
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“Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.”
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“If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.”
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“No complaint… is more common than that of a scarcity of money.”
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“What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from.”
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“It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.”
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“Neither a borrower nor a lender be.”
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“I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.”
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“Who covets more is evermore a slave.”
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“Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?”
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“Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift… The hangover comes the day after.”
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“As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.”
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“Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.”
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“If I have enough money to eat I'm good.”
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“Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.”
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“Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.”
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“Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.”
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“There is nothing so habit-forming as money.”
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“We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.”
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“Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.”
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“Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.”
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“Sooner or later, we sell out for money.”
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“Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.”
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“Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs.”
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“All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.”
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“Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.”
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“The foundation of a financial fresh start actually has nothing to do with money or specific financial dos and don'ts.”
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“I'm not broke. Like everybody else, I owe money.”
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“Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.”
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“Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.”
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“Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.”
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“Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.”
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“Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?”
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“If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.”
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“It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.”
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“We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.”
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“If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.”
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“It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.”
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“In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.”
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“Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.”
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“I don't think business news is just for old white men with money.”
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“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
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“I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.”
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“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.”
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“Being real is what keeps me humble. It doesn't matter how much money I make or how much I accomplish. What's critical is staying real to myself and keeping my feet on the ground. That's what helps keep me going.”
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“There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.”
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“The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.”
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“The most beautiful things are not associated with money; they are memories and moments. If you don't celebrate those, they can pass you by.”
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“The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.”
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“Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.”
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“Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.”
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“What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.”
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“Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.”
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“Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.”
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“The sinews of war are infinite money.”
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“I'm much more confident with crypto than with banks or fiat currency because I can actually control it, and the money supply is transparent, stated up front. It makes online shopping a lot easier and a lot safer.”
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“Money doesn't mean anything to me. I've made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.”
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“Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.”
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“The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.”
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“The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.”
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“A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.”
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“Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.”
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“My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.”
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“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
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“Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.”
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“Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.”
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“He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.”
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“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.”
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“I made my money by selling too soon.”
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“For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.”
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“Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.”
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“Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.”
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“To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.”
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“When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.”
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“If you stop at general math, you're only going to make general math money.”
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“Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.”
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“Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.”
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“Finance is not merely about making money. It's about achieving our deep goals and protecting the fruits of our labor. It's about stewardship and, therefore, about achieving the good society.”
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“I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing of just using other people's money. I don't think that's right. I'm not going to ask other people to invest in something if I'm not prepared to do so myself.”
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“I don't fight for the money. I fight for my legacy. I fight for history. I fight for my people.”
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“To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.”
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“Money can't buy life.”
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“Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.”
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“Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.”
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“So, my happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.”
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“It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.”
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“You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.”
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“Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.”
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“If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.”
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“Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.”
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“If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.”
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“Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.”
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“No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.”
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“Spending money is much more difficult than making money.”
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“'Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream' is an intentionally angry film. How could it not be when the chance of an infant dying is five times greater on the Bronx Park Avenue than on Manhattan's Park Avenue just across the Harlem River?”
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“Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.”
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“Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.”
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“It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.”
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“I like my money right where I can see it… hanging in my closet.”
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“Success is not just making money. Success is happiness. Success is fulfillment; it's the ability to give.”
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“The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.”
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“The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.”
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“What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
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“I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn't have that kinda money to put out.”
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“If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.”
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“True wealth is not measured by how much money you've got in the bank or how many toys you've got. Some of the happiest people in the world don't have a crying quarter, but they've got all the things that mean a lot to them.”
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“I am not satisfied in making money for myself. I endeavor to provide employment for hundreds of the women of my race.”
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“Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.”
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“The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.”
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“I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I'm not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy.”
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“You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.”
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“I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.”
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“The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.”
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“I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.”
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“You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.”
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“Art is a subjective thing, and it should be a subjective thing. And the difficulty of subjectivity is that it becomes hugely problematized when you start applying large sums of money to art objects. That's where it all starts to get a bit sticky.”
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“I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.”
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“Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.”
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“I couldn't sell water in a desert. I have no business acumen. I can tell you why you have no business acumen, and I can tell you why your project may or may not work, but I have no ability to make money.”
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“I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.”
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“There's nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way I can, even if it's just by signing an autograph. A child's smile is worth more than all the money in the world.”
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“The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.”
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“Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.”
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“Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.”
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“No amount of money can replace the kind of happiness and satisfaction I derive out of writing.”
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“The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.”
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“Don't worry about being famous or making money; the most important thing is being the best. You have to become a master of your craft, and everything else will come.”
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“Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.”
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“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”
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“Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.”
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“I just save my money, man. I don't even try to enjoy it like these other rappers; they having fun and they lit, but they gon' be broke later on. I be savin', I be chillin'. It feels good to know I got it, but it feel better to know I'ma keep it too.”
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“Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.”
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“Money is something that keeps you alive and healthy and just keeps you focused. It's the drive. It's the passion.”
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“Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!”
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“We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.”
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“Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart.”
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“Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it's keeping it.”
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“When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.”
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“We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.”
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“It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.”
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“I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I've learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, 'cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.”
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“I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.”
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“Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they changed it to 'alimony.' It's ripping your heart out through your wallet.”
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“No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.”
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“War is hugely profitable. It creates so much money because it's so easy to spend money very fast. There are huge fortunes to be made. So there is always an encouragement to promote war and keep it going, to make sure that we identify people who are 'others' whom we can legitimately make war upon.”
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“At the end of the day, it's all about money.”
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“A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.”
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“Live like you'll die tomorrow, work like you don't need the money, and dance like nobody's watching.”
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“In 1985, I was living with my sister in Virginia, and since I was still in high school, I worked at McDonald's to save money to get an abortion. It sounds really terrible, but it was the best decision I ever made. It was the first time I took responsibility for my actions. I messed up, had sex without contraception, and got pregnant at 15.”
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“If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.”
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“If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.”
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“Money doesn't buy elegance. You can take an inexpensive sheath, add a pretty scarf, gray shoes, and a wonderful bag, and it will always be elegant.”
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“Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.”
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“I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.”
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“Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.”
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“Football is now all about money. There are problems with the values within the game. This is sad because football is the most beautiful game. We can play it in the street. We can play it everywhere.”
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“Money is the best rule of commerce.”
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“I was never motivated by money.”
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“It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.”
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“Pressure is the single mom who is trying to scuffle and pay her rent. We get paid a lot of money to play a game. Don't get me wrong: there are challenges. But to call it pressure is almost an insult to regular people.”
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“There is no substitute for hard work. There is no such thing as an overnight success or easy money.”
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“Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.”
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“You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.”
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“Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.”
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“Words are the money of fools.”
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“And after Brexit, we will be free to determine our economic future, with control over our money, laws and borders.”
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“Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.”
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“If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.”
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“Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.”
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“Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.”
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“Business is business. I don't manufacture cars, but we do manufacture money.”
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“What's the reason I'm playing basketball? I do it because I love it, I do it because of my family, and that's it. I don't do it because of the money. I don't do it because of the fame. I just do it because I love it, and I do it for my family because my family enjoys it.”
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“I want to make as much money as I possibly can so that when my day comes, my mother and sister is fine. My close friends are fine. They don't have to worry about anything ever again.”
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“If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.”
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“Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?”
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“Money does not change people, people change.”
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“Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.”
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“We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.”
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“Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal… I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.”
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“Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.”
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“Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.”
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“This 90/10 rule holds true in almost anything financial. Take the game of golf, for example. Ten percent of the professional golfers make 90 percent of the money.”
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“There are three rules for being in the Paper Route Illuminati. Rule number one: get the money first. Rule number two: don't forget to get the money. How do you make that money? You can't make money without making sacrifices.”
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“Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.”
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“Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.”
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“Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.”
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“Batman. I like the idea that if I had enough money, time, and vengeance, I could become him.”
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“Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.”
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“I like money, but it's never been about the money.”
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“What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance.”
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“The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.”
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“I think anybody who is interested in keeping their money safe from the criminal banking system would want gold, silver, and Bitcoin.”
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“I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.”
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“The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.”
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“Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.”
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“I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.”
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“The first thing I heard when I got in the business - not from my mentor - was, 'Bulls make money, bears make money, and pigs get slaughtered.' I'm here to tell you I was a pig. And I strongly believe the only way to make long-term returns in our business that are superior is by being a pig.”
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“The money's the same, whether you earn it or scam it.”
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“I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.”
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“If you don't have your friends and your family, what do you really have? You can have all the money in the world, but with no friends and no family, it's no good.”
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“When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.”
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“It's not how much you spend, it's how you spend it. We have been putting a lot of money into education in the state of Nevada, and it's gotten us to 50th in the country in graduation rates. We needed more accountability in our system.”
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“My father's money vanished in the Great Depression, and he had trouble keeping a job.”
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“Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.”
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“In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.”
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“Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.”
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“At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of credit card fees, currency exchange fees, money transfer fees, and reduces the need for lawyers in transitions… all good things.”
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“You don't need money to be creative. The ghetto builds champions every day.”
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“The key to making money is to stay invested.”
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“Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.”
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“The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.”
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“I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.”
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“I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead.”
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“As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?”
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“I always tell my traders that they would've loved the 1990s because it was a fairly easy time to make money.”
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“Money is my military, each dollar a soldier. I never send my money into battle unprepared and undefended. I send it to conquer and take currency prisoner and bring it back to me.”
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“You must spend money to make money.”
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“I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.”
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“I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.”
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“A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.”
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“There are two things people want more than sex and money… recognition and praise.”
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“Money you lose you can always make back. But even five minutes of time lost is gone forever.”
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“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
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“In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.”
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“The time making money should be greater than the time that you are spending money.”
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“It's good to put money back into communities.”
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“Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!”
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“There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.”
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“I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.”
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“Every day we are paying more for energy than we should due to poor insulation, inefficient lights, appliances, and heating and cooling equipment - money we could save by investing in energy efficiency.”
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“It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.”
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“Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.”
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“I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.”
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“I believe education should be a right for every child, but tragically in many parts of world it is a privilege for certain children whose parents have money. There are 72 million children in the world who don't go to school and many of them are in Africa.”
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“I had five brothers and sisters. Four of them older, and some of them played instruments, and we would get together and have family recitals and raise money for the church. I belonged to a wonderful church community that encouraged me to sing.”
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“For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He's the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.”
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“Success is not defined by money or status, necessarily, but by how many people you've impacted and how fulfilled you feel with your decisions. If you can garner all of these things, then more power and success to you, but all in all, you must feel happy and satisfied with what you personally have put out into the world.”
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“Money is the probably the most successful story ever told. It has no objective value… but then you have these master storytellers: the big bankers, the finance ministers… and they come, and they tell a very convincing story.”
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“The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.”
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“Money's the cheapest thing. Liberty and freedom is the most expensive.”
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“Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations. You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.”
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“I find money some way or other goes very fast. But I think I can reflect it has been spent with satisfaction and to my own honour.”
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“Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.”
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“I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous.”
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“I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.”
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“In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.”
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“The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.”
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“Business is about making money but it is also about having fun, so get your character across.”
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“I'd rather have money and be broken-hearted than be broke and broken-hearted.”
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“Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge.”
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“Cryptocurrency currencies take the concept of money, and they take it native into computers, where everything is settled with computers and doesn't require external institutions or trusted third parties to validate things.”
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“People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.”
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“The greatest power is not money power, but political power.”
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“I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves.”
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“My principles are more important than the money or my title.”
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“My dream is to be World Lightweight Champion in the UFC. Have more money than I know what to do with. And have a great life for my kids, grandkids, and everyone in my family.”
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“Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.”
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“Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.”
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“The crypto market has set the bar shockingly low for entrepreneurs to raise money, and this is dangerous for everyone involved.”
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“It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.”
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“War is big business. It's a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.”
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“It doesn't take money to have style, it just takes a really good eye. Sometimes you can find amazing culinary antiques that will make it feel like an old French kitchen.”
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“Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.”
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“An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.”
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“If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.”
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“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
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“With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised.”
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“Money is just a consequence. I always say to my team, 'Don't worry too much about profitability. If you do your job well, the profitability will come.'”
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“I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.”
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“It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.”
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“You've got to tell your money what to do or it will leave.”
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“Just because you got money doesn't mean you're gonna be happy, and just 'cuz you can buy everything in the world doesn't mean you're gonna find your purpose.”
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“Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy!”
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“When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.”
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“My integrity means more to me than any fame or money. When I say something, I want people to take it to the bank that I mean it and believe in it.”
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“There are some things that you can fulfil with money, but at the end of the day these are not the things that make you happy. It is the small things that make life good.”
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“I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.”
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“I don't want to waste anyone's time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift.”
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“I see the NCAA holding off as long as possible to continue to make money off of its players. It's almost like modern day slavery.”
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“People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.”
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“The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.”
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“I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.”
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“My head been on a swivel before I was rapping. So, do my head not supposed to be on the swivel? If you've been like this your whole life, do it stop because you got money now? Do it stop because everybody and their momma looking at you now?”
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“Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.”
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“The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing.”
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“I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.”
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“The American Dream is really money.”
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“As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.”
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“You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.”
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“Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.”
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“No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.”
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“Money was always on my mind when I was growing up. So I was always wondering how we were going to afford this and that. Acting seemed to be a shortcut out of the mess.”
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“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.”
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“If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.”
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“Money can't buy you happiness, but it helps you look for it in a lot more places.”
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“The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.”
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“It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.”
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“I love the Queen. I love the whole fairy tale of the Royal Family; the Crown Jewels; Buckingham Palace; the tourist attraction. But really, is that what we've got a monarchy for? It's just for tourism, and then you survive and live off taxpayers' money?”
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“Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.”
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“Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.”
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“In the 1920s prohibition in the US notoriously failed to tackle alcohol use, led to lethal forms of liquor entering the black market, fuelled organised crime and its associated violence, and wasted public money.”
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“Money can come and go, and fame comes and goes. Peace of mind and a relationship with God is far more important, so this is the precedent that we've set in our lives. The bottom line is, we all die, so Jesus is the answer.”
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“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half.”
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“Money doesn't make me - I make the money.”
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“To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.”
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“Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.”
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“I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.”
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“All the money in the world can't buy you back good health.”
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“In Africa, those who have money - businessmen and banks - do not believe in film.”
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“Crypto today is a libertarian paradise. If you send your money to the wrong place, it's gone. If you send it to a merchant and don't receive the goods, you have no recourse. This is cash. Treat it as such.”
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“I want everybody to get money.”
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“I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, 'What for?' I said, 'I'm going to buy some sugar.'”
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“Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.”
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“Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.”
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“Money comes and goes. When you pass away it's about what you've done to make this world a better place.”
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“These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.”
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“No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me.”
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“You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.”
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“It's about legacy, it's about moments, it's about being an icon - I'll do what I do and the money will flow.”
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“I got a lot of money, but when you wealthy, that mean that your children is ballin', your grandchildren is ballin'.”
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“Nothing makes you feel better than when you get into a hotel bed, and the sheets feel so good. Why shouldn't you wake up like that every day? Spend money on your mattress and bedding because these things make a difference on your sleep and, ultimately, your happiness.”
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“You're only the boss if you put up your own money.”
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“The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.”
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“When you print money, the money does not flow evenly into the economic system. It stays essentially in the financial service industry and among people that have access to these funds, mostly well-to-do people. It does not go to the worker.”
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“The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money… they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.”
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“Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.”
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“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.”
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“I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.”
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“I don't want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does.”
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“We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.”
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“Most people who are poor have their money in a bank account that earns negligible interest. With the rapid inflation that we have because of rampant government spending, the people are losing purchasing power - they're actually becoming poorer.”
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“We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.”
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“Work begets work. Just work. If you work, people will find out about you and want to work with you if you're good. So work anywhere you can. That's why I've changed my mind about these theatres where people work for free or have to pay money. I think it's kind of terrible that they feel they have to, but you know what? They're working.”
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“Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.”
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“Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.”
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“Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?”
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“As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.”
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“Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.”
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“New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself.”
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“I'm very rich - in friends. I'm too nice a fellow. I give most of my money away.”
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“America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.”
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“Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.”
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“Money without brains is always dangerous.”
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“I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.”
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“Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.”
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“Fashion is more about taste than money - you have to understand your body and tailor clothes to your needs; it's all about the fit. I do the alterations myself - I'm quite a seamstress - it's the influence of my Hungarian mother.”
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“Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.”
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“I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.”
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“Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.”
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“We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.”
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“You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.”
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“Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.”
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“I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.”
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“The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical.”
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“I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.”
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“Science explains what nature is doing; money often explains what we're doing.”
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“Money has to serve, not to rule.”
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“When there is money, there is also greed. Everyone wants to talk to you when there is money. Only if you have the passion for it, you must become a philanthropist, else it'll become a headache.”
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“I want my money to be different. I'm not trying to have rapper money. My goal is to be able to get everything from the world that I can get.”
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“We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation is to make money.”
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“People first, then money, then things.”
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“Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.”
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“There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire. If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain - do something to make more money yourself.”
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“Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.”
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“Money is a kind of poetry.”
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“No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.”
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“Money is not God, and human dignity is very important.”
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“We learned many years ago that the rich may have money, but the poor have time.”
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“I am very excited about the prospect of using cryptocurrency, not just as a money equivalent, but using it as a way to earn something as a result of doing some type of work.”
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“I'd been in L.A. for about a year, I didn't have any work and I had no money. I didn't really have anywhere to live and I was in my car and on mates' couches. My visa had like two weeks before it expired, so I was going to dip out and go back to Australia.”
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“Bitcoin is amazingly transformative because it's the first time in the entire history of the world in which anybody can now send or receive any amount of money, with anyone else, anywhere on the planet, without having to ask permission from any bank or government.”
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“If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.”
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“The humanities have been forced to disguise, both from themselves and their students, why their subjects really matter, for the sake of attracting money and prestige in a world obsessed by the achievements of science.”
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“Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.”
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“Some people want to amass a great amount of wealth and make a great looking obituary. I'm going to die with more money than is good to leave my son.”
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“The Congo is very wealthy from oil money but is not paying its debts and at the same time is applying for special status at the World Bank. That's shocking and disingenuous.”
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“We spend money we don't have, on things we don't need, to make impressions that don't matter.”
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“I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.”
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“If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.”
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“Money is the great equalizer.”
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“Partying is not a sane way to spend money, but it's fun. When we were young, we did not have a lot of money at all, so I thought, 'If I ever get rich, I'm not going to become one of those boring rich people who doesn't spend money.'”
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“There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.”
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“Values are more important than money.”
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“In 1975, when my students were kidnapped by rebels, I was accused of hiding instead of trying to save them, and of not giving enough money for their ransom. I wasn't believed.”
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“Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.”
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“The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.”
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“I love food: biscuits and gravy, cheese grits, spaghetti and meatballs, chicken-fried steak with white gravy… but my favorite dish is my wife's beanie weenie cornbread casserole. It's so good. It sounds stupid, but if you eat it, it's heaven. Of course, it's only something you can eat if you've got a lot of money.”
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“There's enough money for everybody. See, I can't do what Yachty does. But then again, Yachty can't do what I do.”
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“I have plenty of investments that I wish I'd never made. But the model is to lose money on a lot of investments and then make 1,000X or 10,000X on an investment.”
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“Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.”
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“Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.”
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“I made my money the old-fashioned way; I inherited it. I think that's a great thing to do.”
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“The goal isn't how much money you make, but how much you help people.”
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“I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.”
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“Oh God, you know I have no money, but you can make the people do for me, and you must make the people do for me.”
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“From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.”
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“There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.”
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“In information technology, money is not the issue. Willingness to implement and execute is the issue.”
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“Your legacy lasts forever, the money does not.”
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“Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.”
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“What a brutish master sin is, taking the joy from one's life, stealing money and health, giving promise of tomorrow's pleasures, and finally leading one onto the rotten planking that overlies the mouth of the pit.”
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“The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.”
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“I cannot afford to waste my time making money.”
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“Sex is like money; only too much is enough.”
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“In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.”
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“Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.”
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“I always liked having my own money and buying my own stuff. I didn't want to depend on somebody to do it for me.”
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“I've always earned my own money and enjoy being independent. It's how I was brought up.”
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“I personally think that money can do very little. And this has been my experience all across.”
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“If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.”
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“It's not about the gold medals or the trophies or the money. It's about the people that you cherish and can share incredible moments with.”
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“Energy efficiency not only saves businesses and consumers money, but it also reduces pollution by cutting energy use.”
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“This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.”
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“No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.”
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“Some people see Baltimore as a hopeless place. Some have even made a lot of money on it.”
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“You don't enter the theater and pay your money to be afraid. You enter the theater and pay your money to have the fears that are already in you when you go into a theater dealt with and put into a narrative.”
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“If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood, sweat, and tears.”
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“In the simplest terms, inflation occurs when there's too much money in the system. On the flip side, deflation occurs when there are too few dollars in circulation.”
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“I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.”
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“Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make money with. I never felt that. If I took the assignment, I'd give it my best shot.”
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“He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.”
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“I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.”
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“If a newspaper is to be of real service to the public, it must have a big circulation: first, because its news and its comments must reach the largest possible number of people; second, because circulation means advertising, and advertising means money, and money means independence.”
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“The diverse threats we face are increasingly cyber-based. Much of America's most sensitive data is stored on computers. We are losing data, money, and ideas through cyber intrusions. This threatens innovation and, as citizens, we are also increasingly vulnerable to losing our personal information.”
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“All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.”
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“I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.”
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“It doesn't matter how much money you've got, or how many connections, there's always something you want that's out of reach.”
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“Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.”
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“Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.”
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“Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.”
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“Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.”
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“People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.”
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“I don't want anyone to fail, so if you can make money off music even though you can't sing or dance, that's genius.”
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“My mom has always been my champion. She was very smart and grounded. She said, 'Save your money. Pay your taxes. Don't put everything in one basket,' but she let me explore and be creative.”
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“The Profit and Loss Statement tells you a lot about how your business is doing. It can also help you to determine ways that you can go about saving money so that you get to bring more money home! Basically, the P&L statement measures all of your income sources verses all your business expenses for any given period of time.”
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“Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.”
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“Never marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper.”
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“Money can't buy happiness.”
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“The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.”
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“Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure.”
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“I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice - and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow.”
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“I would argue that's because we had a bunch of smart people running around here. They were coming in and working very hard and many of them had left jobs in which they made significantly more money.”
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“You either make money, or you make history.”
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“I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.”
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“I am only a child. Yet I know that if all the money spent on war was spent on ending poverty and finding environmental answers, what a wonderful place this would be.”
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“If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for with his money the government can, and will, hire soldiers to stand over him, compel him to submit to its arbitrary will, and kill him if he resists.”
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“I always have said that the most valuable thing I have isn't money; it's my time.”
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“If you want to make money playing poker, find a game with a few suckers, fish, donkeys, live ones, or whatever you choose to call a bad player. Just don't let that sucker be you.”
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“Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.”
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“Money brings jealousy and bitterness.”
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“I hate the unfairness of injustice. Anybody who thinks they are better than others or 'chosen' or feel they have an entitlement… be it through monarchy, government or money. I think we are all born the same. We are entitled to an equal shot at life.”
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“I never do anything to make money. I do make money, but that's because I do something. Big difference.”
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“I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition isn't just a desperate quest for positions or money. It's just love - lots of love.”
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“To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.”
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“Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.”
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“Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.”
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“It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.”
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“I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby.”
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“'Money' is never about money. It's an intellectual exchange for something that you believe will make you feel better.”
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“Good grooming is integral and impeccable style is a must. If you don't look the part, no one will want to give you time or money.”
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“After a semester, I left Cal Poly to attend a local community college - Palomar in San Marcos. It was the best move. I worked, saved money and eventually transferred to a different state school. In all, I went to college for three years.”
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“One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But… I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.”
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“Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.”
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“I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.”
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“Taxpayer money should not have to be spent to save a misguided and mismanaged enterprise.”
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“Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.”
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“It's not always about the money and the fame, and a lot of people think that it is sometimes.”
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“We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money.”
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“What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.”
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“If you've got an industry where you've got massive investment, it doesn't matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.”
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“If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money. And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.”
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“What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.”
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“Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.”
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“If you can get some of the devil's money to use for the Lord's work, if you have to borrow it, it is all right and carry on the work.”
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“I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you'll get more money.'”
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“There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.”
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“All my life's about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn't cost very much money.”
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“It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.”
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“I think the main thing, you only get one career and you need to make the most money that you can, and any player will tell you that, you need to take care of yourself and look after yourself and your family and those around you.”
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“My mom, her money going was straight to the bills.”
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“According to New York publishers, Bill Clinton will get more money for his book than Hillary Clinton got for hers. Well, duh. At least his book has some sex in it.”
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“I'm just trying to be the me that I am and not all of this other crap. I just want to be the family man, and if somehow I can make the money to get my ranch and get the hell away from everybody else, that would be awesome.”
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“The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.”
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“I think sometimes we underestimate just how vulnerable Israel is on the public-relations front. That's why they spend so much money on propaganda. And that's why they panic every time they feel like they're losing the propaganda war.”
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“No doubt, I am earning more money with my endorsements than I ever earned playing soccer.”
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“I was never money conscious. I would never have succeeded if I thought I was going to be a millionaire.”
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“I gave 738 Rotary Club speeches, and it was just driving me crazy, so someone said, 'Why don't you charge money?'”
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“Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.”
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“Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.”
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“I like the art of making money more than the money.”
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“Money doesn't make people happy. People make people happy.”
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“Companies should not have a singular view of profitability. There needs to be a balance between commerce and social responsibility… The companies that are authentic about it will wind up as the companies that make more money.”
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“'Men don't cry!' 'Women can't handle money!' What limiting ideas to live with.”
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“I've never sold widely enough to be able to relax about money. I had two kids and their mother to support and my own life. So there was never an option of cutting out.”
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“I've been living the American Dream for over 25 years - just being able to do what I do, be creative, and make money out of it. It's incredible.”
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“That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.”
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“Your employer is the last person you should want to provide for your healthcare, from a privacy, financial, and value standpoint. Employees with families should get the family, meaning spouses and children, off the company plan. In most cases, that will save them money.”
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“I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.”
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“To think one film makes a career is ridiculous. It's important to keep perspective and do things other than for money.”
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“If all you needed to do is to figure out what company is better than others, everyone would make a lot of money. But that is not the case. They keep raising the prices to the point when the odds change.”
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“You must believe in people. You must give back their money in their own pockets.”
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“The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.”
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“If anything, the children of Paris should be giving me even more money for having the privilege of being in the same city as my incredible quality. And so should David Beckham. Call it a Zlaritable donation.”
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“Apps or media who make money on advertising are never satisfied with 'enough' of your attention. They will always fight for more.”
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“The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired and hired somewhere else.”
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“A beautiful deleveraging balances the three options. In other words, there is a certain amount of austerity, there is a certain amount of debt restructuring, and there is a certain amount of printing of money. When done in the right mix, it isn't dramatic.”
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“One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.”
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“A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.”
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“Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.”
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“I'm an active participation guy. No matter how much money you make, no matter how famous you are, you're not above going outside and cutting trees. I do it all the time.”
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“Our health care system squanders money because it is designed to react to emergencies. Homeless shelters, hospital emergency rooms, jails, prisons - these are expensive and ineffective ways to intervene and there are people who clearly profit from this cycle of continued suffering.”
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“When you understand that making, saving, and spending money is all based on the thoughts you're thinking and the actions that these thoughts lead to, you can completely transform your reality - and your bank account.”
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“I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses your information, they are stealing the bank's money, not yours.”
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“Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.”
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“When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: money.”
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“The most sincere form of flattery is money.”
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“Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption, and secure access devices and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer, operate and account for computer systems that contain protected information.”
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“At Coinbase, our mission is to create an open financial system for the world. We believe that open protocols for money will create more innovation, economic freedom, and equality of opportunity in the world, just like the Internet did for publishing information.”
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“You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.”
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“I was a workaholic. I never stopped. I lived in fifth gear. I bought cars. I invested in stocks. I made more money than I had ever imagined.”
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“I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don't have a short-term payback.”
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“There's no amount of money that would make me decide something for a career.”
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“They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?”
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“Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.”
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“Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.”
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“I'm not trying to make friends, I'm trying to make money.”
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“I hate plastic bottles. Just think about it before you buy one. We pay more for a gallon of water than we do for a gallon of gas. I think people will realize that water quality standards in most municipalities are as good or better for the stuff coming out of the tap than bottled water companies. You'll save money and save the environment, too.”
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“A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.”
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“When you steal from somebody, you are saying to them, 'I don't respect how hard you worked for your money.' When somebody steals from you, that's what they're saying.”
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“The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution.”
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“I don't get involved in politics. I think that it is a waste of time and money because very often a politician cannot do much, and if you give him money, you embarrass him, so he can't do anything.”
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“I have learned so many things from my mother about the right upbringing, the right values, value for money, value for elders, for family members. I think these things only a parent can teach you.”
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“There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.”
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“Profit or perish… There are only two ways to make money: increase sales and decrease costs.”
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“When you hit the big time, big money, big egos, people don't talk. You have no friends.”
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“There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.”
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“On paper, I am a Tesla guy. I've got money, I'm a nerd, and for years I professionally ran a blog advocating for technology that helps decrease our impact on the environment. I love what Tesla does.”
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“We come from different backgrounds. Some people grow up with money in their pocket, or they have a certain last name; others have nothing. But it comes down to work ethic. That's where we all play on the same playing field.”
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“The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.”
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“I started being president when I was 37. I don't wanna be out - I'm gonna be out of the presidency at 42. I really don't wanna be in jail at 43, right? So I mean I'm not here to steal money.”
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“All money is a matter of belief.”
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“There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.”
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“I guess if you are making more money than your mom and dad, you can set your own boundaries.”
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“Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion. That becomes more true the higher the skill level gets.”
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“For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.”
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“It doesn't matter how much money you make; it's where you feel happy.”
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“Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.”
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“Richard Fliehr does not make any money.”
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“The best thing is to invest in yourself, because it takes money to make money.”
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“Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.”
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“I was just tryna make money. That's why I started making music.”
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“Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.”
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“One can understand a person by the way he removes his wallet and puts his hand to take out money.”
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“I've lived in small rooms, flats, growing plants in pots on window sills. I'd have liked to have had a full-fledged garden with all kinds of flowers and plants. I've never had enough money to buy a big enough garden space.”
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“Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.”
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“I had no money, no training facilities, no snow, no ski jumps, no trainer, but I still managed to ski jump for my country - and getting there was my gold medal.”
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“Just don't spend your money, and you're well on your way to becoming a millionaire.”
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“There's no doubt that there is star treatment. It's discussed in the meetings. Obviously, people don't pay an enormous amount of money to sit in those courtside seats to see players like Kobe, LeBron, Shaq - all the greats - sit on the bench and be in foul trouble.”
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“If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.”
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“Make sure to save for the future and keep making money!”
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“Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It's money that's dear. You have to work days and sit up nights thinking how to make money.”
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“Money for me today does not really matter.”
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“When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.”
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“Taxpayers have long memories, especially when it comes to how their hard-earned money is spent.”
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“Throwing money on the fire is normally not the solution to every problem. You put the fire out by listening to the people who are smarter than you are.”
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“I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.”
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“Your sanity is harder to get back than money or contacts. You are the magic. You are the art. You can't lose that.”
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“Music is not a very stable business. It comes and it goes, and so does money, but your education stays with you for the rest of your life. When you have that education, and you have nothing to fall back on, you can get a get a job anywhere.”
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“In the end, you're trying to find God. That's the result of not being satisfied. And it doesn't matter how much money, or property, or whatever you've got, unless you're happy in your heart, then that's it. And unfortunately, you can never gain perfect happiness unless you've got that state of consciousness that enables that.”
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“The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.”
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“Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.”
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“Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.”
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“If you build your own chair, there is a lot of things that happen. You could probably buy a nice chair for less money than a chair that you built yourself, and it might even look better, but if you build that chair, you're going to take care of it and maintain it because it's your chair. If it breaks, you know how to fix it.”
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“No matter how much money you have, you can lose it.”
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“Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.”
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“The gym was my sanctuary. The place where you could forget about all your worries, your problems, people asking you for money, people asking you to do this, do that.”
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“I have plenty of money to do what I want to do, and I have the relationships.”
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“I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you.”
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“Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.”
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“As soon as I finish a job, I'm like, 'Geez, I got away with that, and I got paid all right!' But then you get to the press junket, and I'm like, 'Oh God, this is where you earn your money.'”
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“I didn't have accessories when I started my career. Did you see me wearing bling-bling when I did 'Hola at Your Boi?' No! I hustled to get money to buy them, and there is no crime if I show it or flaunt it to my fans because they gave me money to buy them.”
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“I've learned that you never have to think about how to make money. You need only to focus on what you think is going to be a good movie or what's a movie I'd like to watch as the audience.”
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“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
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“When I became 'The American Dream,' they needed a hero down here. I had no money - I couldn't buy a car without being tied under - but I had to have a Cadillac with blue stars on the hood no matter what it cost because just driving in it will set how they look at me and perceive this guy; they'll know.”
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“I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money.”
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“A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.”
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“I didn't want to be short. I've tried to pretend that being a short guy didn't matter. I tried to make up for being short by affecting a strut, by adopting the voice of a much bigger man, by spending more money than I made, by tipping double or triple at bars and restaurants, by dating tall, beautiful women.”
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“We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children's life. It may save someone you love. And it's very important.”
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“Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.”
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“We have the best government that money can buy.”
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“How do you make money? Spinoffs, split-ups, liquidations, mergers and acquisitions.”
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“The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ruin these baneful passions have involved human societies in all ages when they have been let loose and suffered to rage uncontrolled - There is no restraint like the pervading eye of the virtuous citizens.”
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“Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.”
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“If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.”
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“The three biggest fashion mistakes are cheap suits, shoes, and shirts. Spend your money on something good.”
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“It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.”
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“Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.”
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“I did this very cheap movie called 'Love,' and then I decided I wanted to make an even cheaper movie so people don't get involved and can't tell you how to rewrite it or how to avoid losing money. The good thing about doing these quite cheap movies is that you have much more freedom.”
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“You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.”
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“Money won't make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves.”
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“There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one's own greed.”
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“My dream was to set up my own e-commerce company. In 1999, I gathered 18 people in my apartment and spoke to them for two hours about my vision. Everyone put their money on the table, and that got us $60,000 to start Alibaba. I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name.”
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“The first four years of my career, I never complained. I never demanded. I never said anything about money.”
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“Global warming has become a new religion. We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it. But the number is not important: only whether they are correct is important. We don't really know what the actual effect on the global temperature is. There are better ways to spend the money.”
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“I definitely love that all these car brands are coming out with hybrid forms of every car that they have. It's very awesome because I think it does make a difference, and it doesn't hurt that you save a lot of money on gas.”
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“When you have a good idea, the money flows.”
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“I don't dislike money, but there's only so much money you can use.”
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“When I joined the special forces it was never for the money. It was for pure desire to serve in an elite unit.”
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“A lot of people have money, but they don't have peace with it. They can't sleep. They need bodyguards every day.”
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“Capital isn't this pile of money sitting somewhere; it's an accounting construct.”
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“I say 20 words in English. I say money, money, money, and I say hot dog! I say yes, no and I say money, money, money and I say turkey sandwich and I say grape juice.”
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“The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.”
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“Money can be taken away from you, by the IRS or by pistol. That's why I always measure riches in terms of wisdom. No one can ever take from you what you know.”
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“We need to stop spending money on death, the war in Iraq and on enhancing the lives of the people in our own country.”
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“My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move.”
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“If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It's the worst possible thing you can do, because people are so sensitive to short-term losses. If you count your money every day, you'll be miserable.”
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“I don't care about having money. It's about being happy, man.”
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“My wife gets all the money I make. I just get an apple and clean clothes every morning.”
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“If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the Great Depression from occurring?' The answer is they would have paid a lot. They would have borrowed money if it could be used to prevent the Great Depression.”
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“The blessing that I got from my parents, even if they didn't really teach me about money, was their simple lifestyle.”
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“I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.”
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“I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.”
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“The Million Dollar Man was to professional wrestling what Ebenezer Scrooge is to Christmas. He was like a rich bully. He bullied everybody with his money, and his motto was 'Everybody's got a price.'”
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“Financial security is crucial for your family, and I have a large family. Money does matter when you don't have it. When you need it, you realise the value of it. In that sense, money will always have value.”
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“It seems that other parts of the world ought to be concerned about what we think of them instead of what they think of us. After all, we're feeding most of them, and whenever they start rejecting 25 cents of each dollar of foreign aid money that we send to them, then I'll be concerned about their attitude toward us.”
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“To brutally summarise a lot of scholarly texts, contemporary art is made possible by neoliberal capital, plus the Internet, biennials, art fairs, parallel pop-up histories and growing income inequalities. Let's add asymmetric warfare, real-estate speculation, tax evasion, money laundering and deregulated financial markets.”
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“I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money. You know, there was always a couple of bodyguards behind me, who took care if I wanted… I needed pencils for school, I needed a notebook, they were the ones who were taking out the money. I was constantly guarded.”
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“Once upon a time, I was really lost. I was 18 going on 19, and I was shy. All I want to do is get money, and the way I was thinking I was going to do that was a negative route.”
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“At one time I thought he wanted to be an actor. He had certain qualifications, including no money and a total lack of responsibility.”
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“My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.”
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“The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.”
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“I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.”
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“When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.”
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“Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.”
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“I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don't want anything. I don't want money or prizes. I want people to know that a war is going to be fought.”
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“Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?”
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“I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'”
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“Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.”
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“To find a clear identity for the team - that is not about buying certain players for a lot of money. It is about getting players who want to play the right way.”
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“But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.”
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“Money does not guarantee success.”
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“It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic.”
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“If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.”
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“The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.”
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“I have more money now than I know what to do with.”
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“I think money laundering is giving oxygen to organized crime.”
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“Money doesn't buy class.”
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“Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.”
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“When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lost their jobs. Money was scarce. Families had to do without. Some young people did not ask their mothers, 'What's for dinner?' because they knew all too well that their cupboards held very little.”
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“Money should be for ponies, not for war, I think.”
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“I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.”
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“Money is like manure. It's most effective when it's spread around widely.”
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“Dance music doesn't care where you live. It doesn't care who your friends are. It doesn't care how much money you make. It doesn't care if you're 74 or if you are 24 because… 74 is the new 24!”
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“We need strong public health institutions to respond to any challenge. We need to deal with critical infrastructure. The reality is that very little money has flowed to communities to help our first responders; to help our hospitals; to help the public health infrastructure.”
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“I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty.”
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“Are my politics Democrat or Republican? I think both are horrific. And it doesn't matter anyway. Money runs America; money runs everywhere.”
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“Every two months, I would get an email, 'Skeleton Twins update: still don't have the money!'”
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“In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally, operates.”
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“It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I'm very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting, because considering the amount of money that can be made from selling gossip, I could be very easily taken advantage of.”
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“Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.”
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“Money has no moral opinions.”
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“Something like 'A Single Man,' it was tiny; it was financed by one guy. We all lost money doing it.”
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“Economically, many folks don't feel they can afford organic. While this may be true in some cases, I think more often than not it's a question of priority. I feel it's one of the most important areas of concern ecologically, because the petrochemical giants - DuPont, Monsanto - make huge money by poisoning us.”
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“A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even… without any hope of doing it well.”
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“I could have made a small film and kept all the money from 'Life is Beautiful'. Instead, I spent more money than I had on 'Pinocchio', a very risky film.”
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“I'm a big Bruce Lee fan, and if I saw Bruce Lee try to be some namby-pamby lawyer, I'd want my money back.”
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“They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.”
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“I don't play for money. I play for glory and winning championships.”
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“I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as 'the little wife.' You don't know what it was like then! I'd never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.”
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“I describe Bitcoin as 'the Skype of money.'”
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“Copyright is not the thing that makes artists money, it's only for their brokers and distributors.”
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“I'm transitioning from being a starving artist. My producers had success outside of the Daniel Caesar brand, so they invested money, time and resources. They funded the first video, and a lot of other things that I'm so thankful for.”
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“In real estate, you make 10% of your money because you're a genius and 90% because you catch a great wave.”
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“It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money.”
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“The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.”
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“I must say that I do wrestle with the amount of money I make, but at the end of the day what am I gonna say? I took less money so Rupert Murdoch could have more?”
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“Assets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket.”
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“Psychopaths are social predators, and like all predators, they are looking for feeding grounds. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you will find them.”
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“So much business is based on the belief that we should do whatever we can within legal limits to make as much money as we can. Ben & Jerry's was based on values, and we try to operate a business that not just sells ice cream but partners with all our stakeholders - whether that's suppliers or customers - to bring about a more sustainable world.”
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“I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.”
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“Economics is not a science; it is a quasi-religion: part superstition, part mystique, part sentimentality. Bankers dream like other men, the only difference being that when their dreams turn to nightmares, we all lose sleep. There can be no trusting the muttering of any prelate when it comes to money.”
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“I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.”
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“Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.”
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“I am running to make history, to show that no human is limited. It's not about money, it's about showing a generation of people that there are no limits.”
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“God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.”
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“The NRA is funded by weapons manufacturers, and those same manufacturers know that they stand to lose some business if we pass common-sense gun legislation. As a result, the NRA contributes money to politicians to ensure that gun control never happens.”
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“A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.”
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“Time is money in the shipping business.”
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“My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.”
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“There's nothing I've ever worked on that beat 'Game of Thrones' - that's a 10-hour movie; they put a lot of money in it.”
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“You reach a point where you don't work for money.”
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“A fool and his money are soon elected.”
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“You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.”
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“I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.”
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“I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.”
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“In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.”
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“Time is money.”
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“The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.”
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“Money is usually attracted, not pursued.”
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“I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful.”
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“Money doesn't talk, it swears.”
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“A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.”
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“There isn't anything that pays you as much money as acting while you are deciding what the hell you're going to do with yourself.”
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“Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that's generating income for yourself.”
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“People say money ain't nothing; money is basically everything.”
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“When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.”
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“You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.”
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“Your goal should be to pay off your credit card bills in full at the end of each month and set aside money toward your emergency savings.”
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“Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.”
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“Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.”
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“I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.”
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“Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won't buy. It bought me a house but it won't buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won't buy me a friend.”
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“Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.”
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“I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.”
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“To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games - nothing like saving the world.”
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“I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.”
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“Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.”
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“Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.”
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“I have an impact and people look up to me now. It's more than the money.”
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“Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.”
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“Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.”
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“If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people He gives it to.”
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“Working hard to earn more money and then giving it away in higher taxes isn't financially intelligent, even if you do put some of it into a retirement account.”
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“There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.”
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“Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.”
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“Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.”
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“Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.”
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“Time is more valuable than money, because time is irreplaceable.”
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“The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.”
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“Anybody that wants to be something greater than themselves, that understands that bringing meaning and intention into work and bringing those two things together, is a member of the 'we generation,' and the money tends to follow.”
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“I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.”
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“If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.”
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“My object in life is not simply to make money for myself or to spend it on myself in dressing or running around in an automobile, but I love to use a part of what I make in trying to help others.”
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“To make the most of your money, I recommend sticking with mutual funds that don't charge a commission when you buy or sell.”
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“There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.”
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“Friendship and money: oil and water.”
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“I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.”
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“I had a great shoe contract and glove contract with a company who paid me a lot of money never to be seen using their stuff.”
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“The truly unique trait of 'Sapiens' is our ability to create and believe fiction. All other animals use their communication system to describe reality. We use our communication system to create new realities. Of course, not all fictions are shared by all humans, but at least one has become universal in our world, and this is money.”
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“Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control.”
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“In today's world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they're cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.”
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“I believe - we all pay taxes. I'm happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That's going to bother you.”
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“You don't want to have so much money going toward your mortgage every month that you can't enjoy life or take care of your other financial responsibilities.”
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“I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.”
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“Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.”
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“I can make more generals, but horses cost money.”
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“I hope to be like Bill Gates, bro. With all the money in the world.”
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“When a fellow says, 'It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,' it's the money.”
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“A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.”
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“Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.”
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“Michael Jordan brings millions of dollars when he shows up in an arena. Since money is how we judge people, he's very valuable. But while that's happening, Rome is burning within the black community.”
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“It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.”
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“Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.”
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“I've always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.”
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“I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.”
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“The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I'm still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.”
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“I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.”
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“America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.”
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“Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.”
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“Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.”
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“I shouldn't be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.”
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“Success must never be measured by how much money you have.”
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“The Dwolla incident was to be expected. The government will go after sites that it thinks are supposed to register as money transmitters. Some Bitcoin companies will register as such, and some won't, but business will carry on regardless.”
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“I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.”
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“Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.”
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“Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.”
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“I need to make money for my family and my future family. I'm not a YOLO person.”
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“A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.”
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“No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.”
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“An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.”
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“We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again.”
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“At the end of the day, don't nobody go into business to lose money.”
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“The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.”
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“A banker who is allowed to borrow money at X and loan it out at X plus Y will just go crazy and do too much of it if the civilization doesn't have rules that prevent it.”
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“Yes, money is important. But it's all about the creative process.”
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“That's the principal guiding feature of all interviews today is money.”
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“Look, don't congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, as long as money will last to buy it.”
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“Bernie Madoff… was regulated up and down and every which way, and it didn't do any good - he ran away with everyone's money.”
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“Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a 'government'; because, with money, they can hire soldiers, and with soldiers extort more money; and also compel general obedience to their will.”
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“Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.”
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“Any idiot can make money. Keeping money, very few can do.”
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“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.”
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“Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.”
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“I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?”
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“It is clear that there has been money, but it has gone to line the pockets of the corrupt.”
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“It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.”
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“My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl.”
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“Making money is often more fun than spending it, though I personally have never regretted money I've spent on friends, new experiences, saving time, travel, and causes I believe in.”
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“You can tell a lot about a man's character by watching him win or lose money.”
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“The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.”
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“People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.”
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“I spent more money on one robe than guys spend in five years.”
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“The 'American Idol' and 'X Factor' shows, they're great shows. But I think I need to make a show like that, directed straight to the hood, to the artists that don't get the attention, that don't have the money to make themselves representable.”
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“Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.”
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“My father had a series of blue-collar jobs and never made more than $20,000 a year. When I was seven, he got injured on a job. That was a very important point - because of the injury, he couldn't walk, and the company he was working for did not pay him. There was no compensation. So there was no money and no food.”
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“International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don't have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.”
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“I can't afford to die; I'd lose too much money.”
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“I'm interested in movement, and I'm interested in money, and I'm interested in the movement of money.”
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“What a company's been earning doesn't mean anything. What you have to look at is what people think it's going to earn. If you can see something in two years is going to be entirely different than the conventional wisdom, that's how you make money.”
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“I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience.”
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“A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.”
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“Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?”
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“They gave their money, and they gave their screams. But the Beatles kind of gave their nervous systems. They used us as an excuse to go mad, the world did, and then blamed it on us.”
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“Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of what the society wanted.”
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“Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.”
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“My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers. I only started the company when I realized I could be an engineer forever.”
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“My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.”
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“I definitely don't think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.”
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“Money is kind of just like air - if you don't have air, you can't breathe. If you don't have money, I don't think you'll want to breathe - you won't want to live.”
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“We have become 99 percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.”
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“Money will not give you happiness; it's part of the key.”
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“I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that's it. The lifestyle doesn't change.”
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“I tried all my life to make housing affordable. The more affordable the house, the more money I make.”
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“Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.”
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“As a precious metal, silver is also money.”
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“I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got.”
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“I never fight for the money, but every person is different.”
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“If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.”
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“I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life… it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.”
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“I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.”
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“Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.”
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“Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.”
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“Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.”
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“The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.”
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“Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.”
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“We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.”
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“Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.”
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“Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds and shovel-ready stimulus programs of their day.”
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“Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.”
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“I know all I really wanna do is get money and take care of my family.”
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“Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.”
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“The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.”
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“Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.”
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“Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.”
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“What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.”
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“When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.”
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“Cash - in savings accounts, short-term CDs or money market deposits - is great for an emergency fund. But to fulfill a long-term investment goal like funding your retirement, consider buying stocks. The more distant your financial target, the longer inflation will gnaw at the purchasing power of your money.”
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“People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.”
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“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”
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“I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.”
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“Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.”
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“I have too much money invested in sweaters.”
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“My goal the whole time has been for people to see me as a stand-alone artist. I came out with Young Money, the biggest hip-hop label in the world at the time. And then it was, 'How do I branch away from Lil Wayne?'”
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“Before borrowing money from a friend it's best to decide which you need most.”
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“Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.”
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“You make more money if you're generous.”
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“My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.”
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“Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.”
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“Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.”
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“It's a big world and I got a lotta money to get.”
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“Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.”
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“At fourteen or fifteen, I decided to earn my living when I grew up playing drums made from wooden beer kegs and leading a group called Keg Brando and His Kegliners. We organized a little band, but it didn't last long and didn't make any money.”
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“Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.”
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“Money has no grey areas. You either make it or you lose it.”
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“Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.”
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“You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.”
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“I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.”
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“Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.”
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“Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.”
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“Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.”
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“Remember that credit is money.”