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"A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse."
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"I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing."
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"The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of it with the unshakable belief that they are intelligent and well informed. The most dangerous thing about it is that it leaves most of the people who do not have a lot of money with the very same belief."
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"I had a great time on News Radio, I got to make tons of money in relative obscurity and learn a lot about the TV biz and work on my standup act constantly. It was a dream gig."
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"It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own."
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"We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race."
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"You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China."
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"The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still."
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"And I think the more money you put in people's hands, the more they will spend And if they don't spend it, they invest it. And investing it is another way of creating jobs. It puts money into mutual funds or other kinds of banks that can go out and make loans, and we need to do that."
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"Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor."
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"You reach a point where you don't work for money."
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"The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform."
People


"In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms."
Finance


"The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance."
Faith


"By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity."
People


"Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that develop, particularly during the long bull market."
Time


"A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse."
Money


"We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario."
Experience


"After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation."
People


"Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them."
Life


"The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before."
Faith
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