Money Quotes - Page 28

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

  Madonna Ciccone

  World, Wealth, Best Things

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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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• 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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• 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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• All who wish to hand down to their children that happy republican system bequeathed to them by their revolutionary fathers, must now take their stand against this consolidating, corrupting money power, and put it down, or their children will become hewers of wood and drawers of water to this aristocratic ragocracy.

  Andrew Jackson

  Children, Father, Power

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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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• People without independence have no business to meddle with science. It should never be linked with lucre.

  Edward Forbes

  People, Independence, Should

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• Medicine: "Your money and your life!

  Karl Kraus

  Medicine

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.152, Syracuse University Press

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• Tactics and strategies ought to be based on what the real world is, and we do not have the political power to do this. We're not about to shut the government down over the fact that we cannot, only controlling one house of Congress, tell the president that we're not going to fund any portion of [Obamacare]. Because we can't do that.

  Tom Coburn

  Leadership, Real, Party

  "Tom Coburn Says Republicans Pushing To Defund Obamacare Are Not Based In The ‘Real World’". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2013.

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• [Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically.

  Kelly Ayotte

  Leadership, Reality, History

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• Many people are starting to realize that they work a lot and that working on stuff they believe in (and making things happen) is much more satisfying then just getting a paycheck and waiting to get fired (or die).

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Work, Believe

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.9, Penguin

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• This is Wall Street, and today is important. Because tomorrow, July 4th, I intended to make my first million dollars--an excitingday in a man's life. The enterprise was slightly illegal.

  Abraham Polonsky

  Wall, 4th Of July, Men

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• Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country. It's kleptocracy, it's corruption, it's a nation that's really only dependent upon oil and gas for their economy.

  John McCain

  Country, Reality, Oil

  "Kerry, Lavrov agree to work on 'constitutional reform' in Ukraine". "The World Today", www.abc.net.au. March 17, 2014.

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• Money certainly brings out the best in you, doesn't it?

  Mark Hanna

  Greed

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• Everything you gather is just one that you can lose.

  Robert Hunter

  Just One, Loses

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• It is easier to talk about money -- and much easier to talk about sex -- than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it; people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it; and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Sex, Power, People

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• The Madcap Heiress, isn't that what the papers usually call her? Millions of dollars and no sense.

  Vina Delmar

  Dollars, Paper, Heiress

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• [Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with 'the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal grants.' Now that she is in a high-profile and hotly partisan race, it has come out that she also benefited from the moral and financial support of her second - now ex - husband. In the process, though, behavior we would expect and hardly notice in a man is being portrayed as freakish and problematic in a woman.

  Liza Mundy

  Family, Leadership, Education

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• It's really amazing what a money reputation will do for your social standing.

  Sue Sanders

  Reputation, Social, Really Amazing

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• The love for money is only one among many.

  Alfred Marshall

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• We want [government] down to the size to where it would fit in a bathtub, and then it could worry about what we were up to.

  Grover Norquist

  Father, Government, Worry

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• Money has no country.

  Christina Stead

  Country

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.180, Open Road Media

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