"I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's."

Money,

31

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's."

Exlpore more Money quotes

"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Money, Flattery, Vanity

"The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass."

Alice Walker, American Author

Money, People, Fact, Land

"I pretty much ignored politics all through my 20's and 30's... I had other things on my mind... the band, finding a meaningful relationship, getting enough money to eat and pay the rent."

Mark Edwards, American Celebrity

Money, Politics, Mind, Pretty

"Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM."

Jay Chiat, American Businessman

Money, Technology, Information

"When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day."

J. D. Hayworth, American Politician

Money, Country, Day, Economy

"MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it."

David Rockefeller, American Businessman

Money, Space

"Lack of money is the root of all evil."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Money, Evil

"Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not."

Horace, Roman Poet

Money,

"We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a place where it will do a lot of good, namely, in targeted pay increases to our enlisted personnel, particularly our NCOs and our junior warrant officers."

John Spratt, American Politician

Money, Defense, Will

"I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had."

Terry Riley, American Composer

Money, Technology, Dance, Fact

Explore more quotes by Dean Kamen

"A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention."

Creativity

"I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time."

Time

"We can't live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, we're all doomed."

Creativity

"You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is."

Stars

"As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought."

Thought

"In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important."

Technology

"I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care."

People

"I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy."

Thought

"There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter."

Content

"An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work."

Change