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Money Quotes
"I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages."
251
"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes her laws."
109
"Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws."
56
"Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit."
55
"I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh."
38
"I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them - which was much higher than what the trader was giving them."
38
"If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man."
37
"I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over."
34
"This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the region. He wound up being impressed by the royal and military regimes and envied them for staying decades in their positions and embezzling the nation's money with no supervision."
33
"My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'."
33
"I say 20 words in English. I say money, money, money, and I say hot dog! I say yes, no and I say money, money, money and I say turkey sandwich and I say grape juice."
31
"Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away."
30
"Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it."
30
"Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money."
29
"I have bought pole vault equipment, the landing areas, posts, which costs a lot of money. We pay for coaches."
28
"I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film."
28
"A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit."
28
"They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel."
28
"The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba."
28
"The reason there weren't any, I am surmising, is that a lot of Latin kids, Latino kids, in those days didn't have the money to take those kind of classes."
26
"I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked."
25
"I certainly would have regretted not getting into wrestling. It's been very lucrative for me and I've been fortunate to get into it and make money and not do anything stupid where I invested in something that collapsed."
23
"People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition."
22
"They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy."
22
"Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band."
22
"Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master."
22
"The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income."
21
"But the Americans have no extra money. They have their own problems. They can provide financial assistance for two, three, four, or six months at most."
20
"It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so."
19
"Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money."
19
"When money comes into play then that's all it's about wanting money, who's making the most who can get the most, me, me me... and in the end it screws up the person and the sport."
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