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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."
401
"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes her laws."
273
"Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws."
205
"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."
193
"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."
188
"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."
171
"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."
159
"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."
158
"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'."
157
"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."
155
"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."
154
"I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over."
153
"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."
150
"Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away."
149
"I have bought pole vault equipment, the landing areas, posts, which costs a lot of money. We pay for coaches."
146
"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."
142
"If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man."
142
"Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it."
141
"They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel."
140
"The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba."
137
"It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so."
135
"But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money."
123
"We have already significant sums of money in our petroleum fund, a fund created by law that includes all the revenues received from the Timor Sea, and invests in conservative, safe, long-term investment portfolios - right now in US Treasury Bonds."
120
"Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money."
113
"People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition."
87
"A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others."
87
"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."
86
"We didn't have money to put out everything we wanted to put out."
84
"They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me."
82
"They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy."
81
"I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead."
78
"I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature."
78
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