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"Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely."
Thomas Huxley
"Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely."
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"Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band."
Bruce Dickinson
"Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band."
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"Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master."
P. T. Barnum
"Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master."
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"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."
Alma Guillermoprieto
"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."
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"I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work."
Shia LaBeouf
"I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work."
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"There are three easy ways of losing money - racing is the quickest, women the most pleasant, and farming the most certain."
Lord Amherst
"There are three easy ways of losing money - racing is the quickest, women the most pleasant, and farming the most certain."
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"If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing."
Henry Kravis
"If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing."
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"I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead."
Cornelius Vanderbilt
"I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead."
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"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."
Eduard Shevardnadze
"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."
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"Toots said to me, 'I gotta hand it to him, thought, when he got into the big money, he came by and handed me the cash, saying, 'Here's what I'm sure I owe you.'"
Audrey Meadows
"Toots said to me, 'I gotta hand it to him, thought, when he got into the big money, he came by and handed me the cash, saying, 'Here's what I'm sure I owe you.'"
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"I think I'd like to contribute to society in some way. I don't know what that might be. Right now, I just sort of give bums money on the street."
Isabelle Kuprin
"I think I'd like to contribute to society in some way. I don't know what that might be. Right now, I just sort of give bums money on the street."
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"If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil."
Henry Fielding
"If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil."
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"The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money."
Marlon Brando
"The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money."
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"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too."
W. Somerset Maugham
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too."
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"Money is the barometer of a society's virtue."
Ayn Rand
"Money is the barometer of a society's virtue."
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"No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing."
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing."
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"Money is a poor man's credit card."
Marshall McLuhan
"Money is a poor man's credit card."
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"Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?"
Michael Torke
"Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?"
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"Money is just a way of keeping score."
H. L. Hunt
"Money is just a way of keeping score."
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"Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security."
William F. Buckley, Jr.
"Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security."
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"God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you'll know I've lost all my money."
Ben Affleck
"God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you'll know I've lost all my money."
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"Look, don't congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, as long as money will last to buy it."
Henry Kravis
"Look, don't congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, as long as money will last to buy it."
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"Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money."
Muammar al Gaddafi
"Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money."
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"For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies."
Jackie Chan
"For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies."
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"Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace."
Mike Ditka
"Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace."
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"Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand."
Ian MacKaye
"Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand."
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"Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!"
Buddy Guy
"Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!"
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"I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half."
John Wanamaker
"I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half."
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"Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting."
River Phoenix
"Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting."
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"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."
Jose Ramos Horta
"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."
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"The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film."
Vin Diesel
"The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film."
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"My son tried to work in films and he ultimately gave it up, he finally couldn't make a living, he couldn't support himself. He worked all the time and he didn't make enough money to have a house, have an apartment."
Jeffrey Jones
"My son tried to work in films and he ultimately gave it up, he finally couldn't make a living, he couldn't support himself. He worked all the time and he didn't make enough money to have a house, have an apartment."
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"This idea of trying to repeat a success doesn't interest me. It's only really done to make money."
Agnetha Faltskog
"This idea of trying to repeat a success doesn't interest me. It's only really done to make money."
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"People first, then money, then things."
Suze Orman
"People first, then money, then things."
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"If nothing else, I have money."
Bjork
"If nothing else, I have money."
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"Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased."
Adam Smith
"Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased."
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"Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper."
Charles Mackay
"Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper."
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"I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor."
Judy Garland
"I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor."
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"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it."
Bob Hope
"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it."
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"Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million."
Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million."
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"Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity."
Arnold Bennett
"Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity."
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"I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature."
Naguib Mahfouz
"I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature."
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"Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy."
Gloria Swanson
"Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy."
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"Kids who have no money are still figuring out a way - somehow - to dress nicely."
Jim McKay
"Kids who have no money are still figuring out a way - somehow - to dress nicely."
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"I do them all for the money, I really do."
William H. Macy
"I do them all for the money, I really do."
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"The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money."
Norman Ralph Augustine
"The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money."
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"The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there."
Mick Taylor
"The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there."
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"You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way."
Mary Chapin Carpenter
"You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way."
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"In fact, I had a series of offers which would have brought me a lot of money to make films and package TV programs. There were people who said to me, we'll put a million dollars in your bank account tomorrow, which is a hard thing to turn down."
Roone Arledge
"In fact, I had a series of offers which would have brought me a lot of money to make films and package TV programs. There were people who said to me, we'll put a million dollars in your bank account tomorrow, which is a hard thing to turn down."
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"Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything."
Santiago Durango
"Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything."
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