"What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank."

Ability, Profit

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"What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank."

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"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself."

Ike Turner, American Musician

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"Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body."

Nathan Deal, American Politician

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"The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly."

Vance Packard, American Writer

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"I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar."

Mike Figgis, English Director

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"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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"Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner."

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"The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent."

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"I bought a railroad during this period of time."

Time

"The deal we made was that if we would change our law to invite them to come to South Dakota - that's what they wanted, the invitation - if we would change our law to invite them to come to South Dakota, he would guarantee South Dakota 400 Citibank jobs."

Change

"You stick a credit card in a machine, and you pay $3 or whatever it is to get cash - your own money."

Money

"What's taken God 200 years to create was wiped out in a couple of days by what was apparently an arsonist, And it just shows you what a sick world we live in nowadays."

God

"Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to get their own dollars out of the machine. Who ever thought you'd pay cash to get cash? That's where we've gotten to."

Money

"Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to equal it at Citibank."

Employment

"If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota."

Work

"The rest of the world wants our cash; we like plastic."

Finance

"There's a world out there, and you've got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime."

World

"We've become a plastic society."

Society