Dollars Quotes - Page 40

• Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.

  Carl Icahn

  Quarters, Billions

  "Carl Icahn Just Ended What May Be His Most Hilarious, Sarcastic, Awesome Interview Ever" by Linette Lopez, www.businessinsider.com. July 17, 2013.

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• You should get to keep every dollar that you earn. That's your money. That's not the government's money.

  Michele Bachmann

  Government, Should

  Transcript of Fox News-Google GOP Debate, www.foxnews.com. September 22, 2011.

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• I'm angry when we have to use state dollars to fill holes in our low-income heating assistance program because there isn't enough support from Washington.

  Jodi Rell

  Support, Low Income, Use

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• Now a movie with 30 million returns would be something very incredible and the producer can only get 10 to 15 million. This is only 100 thousands US dollars. This is not enough!

  Zhang Yimou

  Would Be, Return, Incredibles

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• It is incumbent upon us all to raise the bar, whether you are a multibillion-dollar international corporation or a mom-and-pop selling blackberry jam.

  Howard Schmidt

  Mom, Bars, Jam

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• What I find fascinating … you have to give David Stern and the NBA a lot of credit … ESPN pays the league, and then the league tells them what to do. It’s more ESPN’s problem. You gotta have no balls whatsoever to pay someone hundreds of millions of dollars and let them run your business.

  Stan Van Gundy

  Running, Nba, League

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• Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.

  Mark Twain

  Use, Fifty, Cents

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• It's time for the Americans to say they're going to live up to their obligations and return the dollars that have been illegally taken from Canadians.

  Gordon Campbell

  Taken, Return, Obligation

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• When I do think, ‘Man a f—cking motel room with a couple of thousand dollars worth of narcotics would do me right,’ I just look over at my dog and remember that Buster’s never seen me high.

  Anthony

  Dog, Couple, Men

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• When you only have a million dollar annual budget and a Super Bowl ad costs $4 million, you have to do something very creative to get onto the Super Bowl.

  Allen St. Pierre

  Creative, Cost, Super Bowl

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• If I offered you a thousand dollars to take off your shoes, you'd very likely accept--and then I could triumphantly announce that 'rewards work.' But as with punishments, they can never help someone develop a *commitment* to a task or action, a reason to keep doing it when there's no longer a payoff.

  Alfie Kohn

  Commitment, Punishment, Shoes

  Alfie Kohn (2006). “Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Most business problems can be solved if you can teach yourself to look beyond the dollar sign.

  Harvey Mackay

  Looks, Problem, Teach

  Harvey Mackay (1996). “Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, & Outnegotiate Your Competition”, Ballantine Books

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• The struggle for justice should never be abandoned because of the apparent overwhelming power of those who seem invincible in their determination to hold on to it. That apparent power has, again and again, proved vulnerable to human qualities less measurable than bombs and dollars: moral fervor, determination, unity, organization, sacrifice, wit, ingenuity, courage, patience.

  Howard Zinn

  Determination, Struggle, Sacrifice

  Howard Zinn (1993). “Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian”, p.27, South End Press

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• Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar until I was forty years old.

  Henry Ford

  Money, Men, Years

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• Names which tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often precedes the selection of a name.

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Writing, Names, Stories

  "Scientific Advertising".

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• Fella in business got to lie an' cheat, but he calls it somepin else. That's what's important. You go steal that tire an' you're a thief, but he tried to steal your four dollars for a busted tire. They call that sound business.

  John Steinbeck

  Business, Lying, Important

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.95, Hamilton Books

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• The more men, generally speaking, will do for a Dollar when they make it, the more that Dollar will do for them when they spend it.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Money, Men

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• The only way Congress can get one dollar to spend is to take that one dollar from Americans, borrow that one dollar from Americans, or inflate that one dollar from Americans. So, it's very much like the visual image of a swimming pool. A person notes there is a shallow end, so he takes the water out of the deep end and pours it in the shallow end, hoping to raise the height of the water in the pool - and you would call that person stupid.

  Walter E. Williams

  Stupid, Swimming, Water

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• Recently somebody said, "Hey, you lost weight," and I said, "Yeah, thirty-five pounds and three and a half billion dollars." So I'm quite a bit lighter and more flexible than I was.

  John C. Malone

  Money, Three, Hey

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• Charles Chaplin makes a million dollars a year out of a funny, shuffling walk and a pair of baggy trousers, because he does "something different." Take the hint and "individualize" yourself with some distinctive idea.

  Napoleon Hill

  Years, Ideas, Doe

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.260, Penguin

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• No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you mount it of your own volition, on a trip funded by your own coffee tin of wrinkled up dollars - bills you've saved and scrounged for, worked the all-night switchboard for, missed the Rolling Stones for, sold fragrant pot with smashed flowers going brown inside twist-tie plastic baggies for. In fact, to disembark from your origins, you've done everything you can think to scrounge money save selling your spanking young pussy.

  Mary Karr

  Coffee, Flower, Night

  Mary Karr (2001). “Cherry”, p.16, Penguin

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• If I lose a billion dollars, I will have it back in less than five years.

  Henry Ford

  Adversity, Years, Overcoming

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• Demographics show that we are entering a battle between young and old. I call it the 'Age War.' The young want to hang onto their money to grow their families, businesses, and wealth. The old want the tax and investment dollars of the young to sustain their old age.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  War, Age, Battle

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• The boom was healthy too, even with its excesses. Because what this incredible valuation craze did was draw untold sums of billions of dollars into building the Internet infrastructure. The hundreds of billions of dollars that got invested in telecommunications, for example.

  Andy Grove

  Money, Healthy, Example

  "Andy Grove's Rational Exuberance". Interview with John Heilemann, www.wired.com. June 1, 2001.

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• I'd rather have a picture-perfect body than a million dollars in my pocket.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Bodybuilding, Perfect

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