Money Quotes - Page 27

• Most people didn't pursue their passions simply because of the promise of a paycheck. They pursued them because they couldn't imagine doing anything else with their lives.

  Ken Robinson

  Life, Motivational, Passion

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.22, Penguin

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• The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake hands with a man that never washes his.

  Horace Walpole

  Men, Hands, Doe

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• We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.

  William Howard Taft

  Investment, Dependent

  William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2009). “William Howard Taft: Essential Writings and Addresses”, p.115, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• Money can be fickle, having a lasting relationship with a few and a brief fling with others, while just flirting with the rest of us.

  Cullen Hightower

  Flirting, Fickle, Lasting Relationship

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• How much are you worth?
  I have no idea. How much do you want?
  Naw.I just want to know what you're worth. Over ten million?
  Oh, my, yes.
  Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What can you buy that you can't already afford?
  The future, Mr. Gittes! The future!

  Robert Towne

  Power, Ideas, Want

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• What's with the poverty Tourette's? Why do these two think we need a hobo for president?

  Jon Stewart

  Thinking, Reality, Class

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• Money was made for the free-hearted and generous.

  John Ray

  Made, Hearted, Generous

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• The Congressional Budget Office is a reactionary socialist institution which does not believe in economic growth, does not believe in innovation, and does not believe in data that it has not internally generated.

  Newt Gingrich

  Leadership, Party, Believe

  "Gingrich: CBO a 'reactionary socialist institution'" By Charles Riley, money.cnn.com. November 22, 2011.

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• People say, "Do you know how much a million dollars is?" I don't have a clue. How many Big Macs will it buy me?

  Billie Jean King

  People, Dollars, Clue

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• Like the man said, can happiness buy money?

  Stanley Kubrick

  Happiness, Men, He Man

  "Fictional character: Vinnie Rapallo". "Killer's Kiss", www.imdb.com. 1955.

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• The obsession with gold, actually and politically, occurs among those who regard economics as a branch of morality. Gold is solid, gold is durable, gold is rare, gold is even (in certain very peculiar circumstances) convertible. To believe in thrift, solidity and soundness is to believe in some way in the properties of gold.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Believe, Gold, Peculiar

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• People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You'll have a sense of what a socialist is.

  Barack Obama

  Wall, Real, Party

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• One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, Party, Government

  "Full Transcript: : President Obama’s Sept. 30 remarks on the looming government shutdown". www.washingtonpost.com. September 30, 2013.

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• When it comes to the budget, we know that we shouldn't be cutting more on core investments, like education, that are going to help us grow in the future. And we've already seen the deficit cut in half. It's going down faster than any time in the last 60 years. So why would we make more cuts in education, more cuts in basic research? Nobody thinks that's a good idea.

  Barack Obama

  Education, Party, Cutting

  "New Day" with Chris Cuomo, www.cnn.com. August 23, 2013.

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• You know what? I think the American people are a little pissed, and I think they're pissed at both parties - I think they're really pissed at both parties - and it will be reflected during election time.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Party, Thinking, Reality

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• That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an estate, for an income or aset of family diamonds, treats herself as a farmer treats his sheep and oxen--makes hardly more of herself, of her own inner self, in which are comprised a mind and soul, than the poor wretch of her own sex who earns her bread in the lowest state of degradation.

  Anthony Trollope

  Marriage, Girl, Sex

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “Framley Parsonage”, p.247, Booklassic

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• Short accounts make long friends.

  Anthony Trollope

  Long, Accounts

  Anthony Trollope (1864). “Rachel Ray: A Novel”, p.342

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• Having money is just the best thing in the world.

  Madonna Ciccone

  World, Wealth, Best Things

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• People die, but money never does.

  Penelope Lively

  People, Doe, Dies

  Penelope Lively (2007). “City of the Mind”, p.18, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.

  Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  Class, Salary, Income

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• To attract more money, you must be attractive, in the sense that people will want and prefer your products or service over those of your competitior.

  Jack Canfield

  Motivational, Law Of Attraction, People

  Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Les Hewitt (2012). “The Power of Focus Tenth Anniversary Edition: How to Hit Your Business, Personal and Financial Targets with Absolute Confidence and Certainty”, p.256, Health Communications, Inc.

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• To all the young people out there who think money and fame is important: that's only a small piece of the pie. You need an education to be totally secure in life. I feel very secure I can go get a real job now.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Leadership, Education, Wisdom

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• In colleges, there are no gender separations in courses of study, and students can freely choose their majors. There are no male and female math classes. But women generally choose college courses that pay less in the labor market. Those are the choices that women themselves make. Those choices contribute to the pay gap.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Education, Work, Math

  Phyllis Schlafly (2015). “Phyllis Schlafly: Volume I”, p.60, Creators Publishing

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• You know what's wrong with our waterfront? It's the love of a lousy buck. It's making the love of a buck, the cushy job, more important than the love of man. It's forgetting that every fellow down here's your brother in Christ.

  Budd Schulberg

  Brother, Jobs, Men

  Budd Schulberg (2012). “On the Waterfront: The Final Shooting Script”, p.168, Open Road Media

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• What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Today, Credit, World

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