Money Quotes - Page 36

• Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Time, Best Job

  "Fortune" Magazine, November 9, 1998.

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• It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Business

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• You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.

  Steve Jobs

  Humorous, Insightful, Attention

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

  Samuel Johnson

  Smile, Wise, Wealth

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 79 (6 October 1769); responding to a line from Garrick's 'Florizel and Perdita' act 2, sc. 1: 'They smile with the simple, and feed with the poor'

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• You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

  Samuel Johnson

  Work, Luxury, Giving

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.106

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• What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

  Samuel Johnson

  Years, Two, Doctrine

  Samuel Butler, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Samuel Butler ...”, p.278

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• Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Love, Men, Confusion

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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• I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Winning, Play

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• My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point.

  Marilyn Manson

  Goal, Trying, Making Money

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• The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Men, Vaccines, Poverty

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success”, p.816, e-artnow

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• The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

  Ziggy Marley

  People, Political, Benefits

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

  Don Marquis

  Mistake, Inheritance, Literature

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• He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.

  Jose Marti

  Trust, Wish, Thieves

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• Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

  Karl Marx

  Eggs, Golden, Add

  "Capital, Volume I". Book by Karl Marx, Vol. I, Ch. 4, pp. 171 - 172, 1867.

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• To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.

  Paul McCartney

  Records, Imagine, Paranoid

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• Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.

  Angela Merkel

  Uprising, Priorities, Earning

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Loss, Men, Romance

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• Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.

  Sean O'Casey

  Doe, Nerves, Make You Happy

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• Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.

  Joel Osteen

  Success, Abundance, Prospering

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• No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

  Cesare Pavese

  Love, Marriage, Clever

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.195, Transaction Publishers

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• When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.

  Tom Petty

  Giving Up, Night, Play

  Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. June 15, 2010.

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• I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

  Paula Poundstone

  Funny, Mother, Women

  "On Location: Women of the Night". Comedy, 1987.

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• I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money.

  Elvis Presley

  Sight, Singing, Way

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• The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

  Marcel Proust

  Relationship, Self, Ties

  Marcel Proust (1934). “Remembrance of Things Past”

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