Money Quotes - Page 32

• [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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• The determination of the value of an item must not be based on its price, but rather on the utility it yields. The price of the item is dependent only on the thing itself and is equal for everyone; the utility, however, is dependent on the particular circumstances of the person making the estimate. Thus there is no doubt that a gain of one thousand ducats is more significant to a pauper than to a rich man though both gain the same amount.

  Daniel Bernoulli

  Determination, Men, Yield

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• Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.

  Fanny Burney

  Evil, Wicked, Vices

  Fanny Burney (1907). “The Early diary of Frances Burney, 1768-1778: with a selection from her correspondence, and from the journals of her sisters Susan and Charlotte Burney”

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• It is a law of nature that everything run by the government will get more expensive and worse over time. Everything run by the private sector will get better and cheaper over time. The fact that [Obamacare] starts this badly does not bode well....We want healthcare run on the same system that gave us cell phones, flat screens, Jerry Garcia chia pets. Everything you submit to the free market...keeps getting better and better.

  Ann Coulter

  Running, Party, Health

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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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• Making money is pretty pointless and it needs constant attention.

  Adam Faith

  Needs, Attention, Constant

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• Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix it with business. The relationship between the Church and political power can also be corrupted if common good is not the only converging point.

  Pope Francis

  Leadership, Wisdom, Reality

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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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• ...we do not simply get showered with Hollywood money because we happened to write a little story about wizards one day. It's not winning the lottery. It's a real job, which real people do, and they have the same real problems as other real people.

  Joanne Harris

  Jobs, Work, Real

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

  Mark Hanna

  Greed

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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 love for money is only one among many.

  Alfred Marshall

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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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• I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.

  Abraham Polonsky

  Character, Fighting, Want

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• Pending catastrophe is not an easy notion to entertain, much less sustain. Americans, moreover, have a low tolerance for doom and gloom. We are the nation of optimism, after all. We elect leaders who promise hope and change. We are the shining city on a hill. But what happens when the lights go out?

  Kathleen Parker

  Doom And Gloom, Light, Cities

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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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• 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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• [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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• The 'almighty dollar' is the true divinity, and its worship is universal.

  Isabella Bird

  Dollars, Divinity, Worship

  Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowing, Dimes, Whole

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.236, Harvard University Press

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• To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn 100 million into $110 million is inevitable.

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

  Inevitable, Turns, Millions

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• To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Country, Father, Mean

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• Why tie to gold? Why not 1982 Bordeaux?

  Richard Thaler

  Ties, Gold, Why Not

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• Money is that dear thing which,
  if you're not careful, you can squander
  your whole life thinking of.

  Mary Jo Salter

  Thinking, Greed, Whole Life

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• Lovers' quarrels are not generally about money. Divorce cases generally are.

  Mason Cooley

  Divorce, Lovers, Quarrels

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