Dollars Quotes

• To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.

  Jim Gibbons

  Government, Bonus, Pay

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• A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

  Bill Vaughan

  Happiness, Baby, Children

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• Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.

  Bill Vaughan

  Funny, Money, Educational

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• Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

  Jesse Ventura

  Money, Taken, Government

  Jesse Ventura (2000). “I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up”, p.18, Villard

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• A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.

  Mae West

  Funny, Money, Math

  1940 Line spoken in My Little Chickadee.

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• I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it; two, when you have it. The third kick it when you give it away - and it is the biggest kick of all.

  William Allen White

  Two, People, Giving

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• It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Funny, Life, Success

  "The Queen of Daytime TV". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 25, 1991.

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• I got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Simple

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• Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Talking, People, Investing

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 9, 2005.

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• Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.

  Charles Jaffe

  Business, Cutting, Two

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• The dollar is currently the principal reserve currency in the world.

  Robert C. Solomon

  World, Currency, Reserves

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• Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

  Raymond Chandler

  Dirty, Sides, Nasty

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.352, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.

  Clifford Odets

  Life, Dollar Bills, Printed

  1935 Jacob. Awake and Sing, act1.

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• Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Movement, Chance, Reincarnation

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• People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas

  Omar Epps

  People, Watches, Opera

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• I used to work, part time, in a deli, in those days when your parents made you work just so you should know what work was like. And you'd make 4, 5, 6, ten dollars.

  Hector Elizondo

  Parent, Used, Made

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I wouldn't eat a hamburger for 40,000 dollars.

  River Phoenix

  Hamburgers

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• I'm doing my work in an environment that's ultimately about dollars and cents.

  Marguerite Moreau

  Environment, Cents

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• I think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for what it does. I think the Shuttle is worth it for the work it does.

  Pete Conrad

  Thinking, Two, Space

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• Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of the recovery. Because those green dollars are the hardest working dollars in the history of American politics. That same dollar that is being used to cut energy bills, is also cutting global warming gas emissions, is also cutting unemployment, is also cutting poverty, through retrofits it's also raising the value of homes, is also by cleaning the air, cutting asthma rates.

  Van Jones

  Home, Recovery, Cutting

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• The amount of money you have has got nothing to do with what you earn.. people earning a million dollars a year can have no money and.. People earning $35,000 a year can be quite well off. It's not what you earn, it's what you spend.

  Paul Clitheroe

  Success, Money, Years

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• Even as we pour hundreds of billions of dollars into our efforts in the Middle East, there is much that needs to be done to win the war of ideas in the Muslim world and beyond

  Herb Kohl

  Easter, War, Winning

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• I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air

  Esther Williams

  Feet, Air, Mermaid

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• My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac.

  Duke Snider

  Salary, Cadillacs, Six

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• People are trading distance for dollars.

  Ray Brown

  Distance, Long, People

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