Dollars Quotes - Page 32

• If I earn a million dollars a week and the average American earns a thousand dollars a week, then when I spend twenty thousand dollars on something it’s the equivalent of the average American spending twenty dollars on something, right?

  Jordan Belfort

  Average, Twenties, Week

  Jordan Belfort (2007). “The Wolf of Wall Street”, p.176, Bantam

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• My name is Jordan Belfort. I was raised in a tiny apartment in Queens. At the tender age of 22 I headed to Wall Street. Within months I started my own firm out of an abandoned auto body shop. The year I turned 26, I made 49 million dollars which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.

  Jordan Belfort

  Queens, Wall, Years

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• We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

  James Wolfensohn

  Two, People, Population

  PBS Interview, www.pbs.org. April 23, 2001.

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• Can't you see it all makes perfect sense, expressed in dollars and cents, pounds shillings and pence, can't you see it all; makes perfect sense

  Roger Waters

  Perfect, Pounds, Cents

  Song: Perfect Sense, Part II

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• Higher education is the place where people who had big plans in high school get stuck in fierce rivalries with equally smart peers over conventional careers like management consulting and investment banking. For the privilege of being turned into conformists, students (or their families) pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in skyrocketing tuition that continues to outpace inflation. Why are we doing this to ourselves?

  Peter Thiel

  Smart, School, Careers

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.31, Crown Business

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• I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.

  Tony Hoare

  Pain, Errors, Years

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• Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Billions, Tolerate, Industry

  "Geoffrey Canada warns Michael Gove teaching unions 'kill' innovation" by Jeevan Vasagar, Allegra Stratton, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2010.

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• If you are among those who believe that the U.S. has the best healthcare system in the world - despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary - it's because my fellow spinmeisters and I succeeded brilliantly at what we were paid very well to do with your premium dollars.

  Wendell Potter

  Believe, Political, World

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• If I'd only followed CNBC's advice, I'd have a million dollars today. Provided I'd started with a hundred million dollars.

  Jon Stewart

  Advice, Investing, Today

  "Jon Stewart Eviscerates CNBC, Santelli On Daily Show" by Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 05, 2009.

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• I know that some knowledgeable people fear that although we might be willing to spend a couple of billion dollars in 1958, because we still remember the humiliation of Sputnik last October, next year we will be so preoccupied by color television, or new-style cars, or the beginning of another national election, that we will be unwilling to pay another year's installment on our space conquest bill. For that to happen well, I'd just as soon we didn't start.

  Hugh Latimer Dryden

  Couple, Future, Color

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• A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained. It requires some training, perhaps, to accomplish this economy, but when once used to it, you will find there is more satisfaction in rational saving than in irrational spending.

  P. T. Barnum

  Training, Goes On, Saving

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.10, Applewood Books

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• In Jack Dempsey's early days he had a fight contract, which paid him two dollars per fight for the fights he won. He received nothing for the fights he lost. Jack Dempsey said that in his early days he was knocked down a lot of times and he usually was tempted to stay down because he knew that no one would hit him again until he started to get up. But Jack was a hungry fighter and he knew that if he was going to eat, he must get up in order to get the two dollars. He tells of one occasion when he was knocked down 11 times in one fight, and 11 times he got up in order to win the $2.

  Sterling W Sill

  Fighting, Winning, Order

  Sterling W. Sill (1976). “This Nation Under God”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• If we can produce more ethanol and bio-diesel to help fuel our vehicles, we will create jobs, boost local economies and produce cleaner burning fuels. This will keep dollars here at home where they can have a positive impact on our economy.

  Rick Renzi

  Jobs, Home, Impact

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• If you’ve given a dollar, you are part of the Marathon of Hope .

  Terry Fox

  Marathon, Given, Ifs

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• When I started this run, I said that if we all gave one dollar, we’d have $22 million for cancer research, and I don’t care man, there’s no reason that isn’t possible. No reason!

  Terry Fox

  Running, Cancer, Men

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• The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost.

  Ben Bernanke

  Technology, Government, Wish

  "Deflation: Making Sure "It" Doesn't Happen Here". Governor Ben Bernanke's remarks before the National Economists Club in Washington, D.C., www.federalreserve.gov. November 21, 2002.

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• Indians chase the vision, white men chase the dollar.

  John Fire Lame Deer

  Men, White Man, Vision

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• It boggles my mind that the same people who cry ‘foul’ about rationing an instant later argue to reduce health care benefits for the needy, to defund crucial programs of care and prevention, and to shift thousands of dollars of annual costs to people – elders, the poor, the disabled – who are least able to bear them.

  Donald Berwick

  People, Mind, Cost

  Donald M. Berwick (2013). “Promising Care: How We Can Rescue Health Care by Improving It”, p.213, John Wiley & Sons

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• City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.

  Leon Trotsky

  New York, Philosophy, Expression

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• When Turkey buys Iranian oil, we pay for it in Turkish lira... However, it is not possible for Iran to take that money as dollars into its own country due to international restrictions, the U.S.A.s sanctions. Therefore, when Iran cannot take this money back as currency, they withdraw Turkish lira and buy gold from our market.

  Ali Babacan

  Country, Iran, Turkeys

  "Iran importing gold to evade economic sanctions, Turkish official says" by Ivan Watson and Gul Tuysuz, www.cnn.com. November 29, 2012.

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• Meaningful relationships are worth more than hundred-dollar trees, and they deserve all the time, effort, and energy they need to become strong and beautiful. Then, once the roots are well established, such relationships can continue to grow-even under difficult circumstances. Trust and understanding will nurture the relationship, and eventually, the flowers of love will blossom and bear sweet fruit.

  Lloyd D. Newell

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Sweet

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• There are as many violent women as men, but there's a lot of money in hating men, particularly in the United States -- millions of dollars. It isn't a politically good idea to threaten the huge budgets for women's refuges by saying that some of the women who go into them aren't total victims.

  Erin Pizzey

  Hate, Men, Ideas

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• My recommendation for SEO is very simple. It’s Write Good Stuff. In my mind, Google is in the business of finding good stuff. It has thousands of the smartest people in the world, spending billions of dollars to find the good stuff. All you have to do is write the good stuff; you don't need to trick it. Let Google do its job and you do your job.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Letting Go, Jobs, Writing

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• As southeast Texas's only Member of the House Transportation Committee, I'm especially proud of being able to help bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the region to create jobs and improve the area infrastructure.

  Nick Lampson

  Jobs, Texas, House

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• If you're shipwrecked on an island with 10 million dollars and your wife has gold and diamonds, but there's no water, no arable land, no fish, you have nothing.  Money is a 'nothing' thing.

  Jacque Fresco

  Islands, Water, Wife

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