Dollars Quotes - Page 18

• A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'

  Lewis Black

  Running, Dad, Father

  "Lewis Black: Black on Broadway". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Don't solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward, but if you're just looking to your friend, co-worker, husband or wife for validation, be careful. It can stop a lot of multimillion-dollar ideas in their tracks in the beginning.

  Sara Blakely

  Husband, Moving, Validation

  "How to launch a dream business while working full time, by the women who did it" by Sejal Kapadia Pocha, www.stylist.co.uk.

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• You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what you think when you already know what you think.

  John Bolton

  Thinking, Political, Needs

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• In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Giving, Community, Troops

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• The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now.

  David R. Brower

  Order, Risk, Waste

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• I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Inspirational, Teacher, Women

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• In 1980, Atari was bringing in around two billion dollars in revenue and Chuck E. Cheese's some five hundred million. I still didn't feel too bad that I had turned down a one-third ownership of Apple - although I was beginning to think it might turn out to be a mistake.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Mistake, Thinking, Chuck E Cheese

  Nolan Bushnell, Gene Stone (2014). “Finding the Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.

  Smedley Butler

  America, Soldier, Flags

  "War Is a Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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• Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few - the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill.

  Smedley Butler

  War, Blood, Territory

  Smedley Darlington Butler (2016). “War Is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that this Administration has learned from its mistakes in Iraq.

  Robert Byrd

  War, Mistake, Iraq

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• I try to live with honor, even if it costs me millions of dollars and takes a long time. It's very unusual in Hollywood. Few people are trustworthy - a handshake means nothing to them. They feel they're required to keep an agreement with you only if you're successful or they need you.

  James Cameron

  Mean, Successful, Agreement

  "Man of Extremes The Return of James Cameron" by Dana Goodyear, www.newyorker.com. October 26, 2009.

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• Even if you're Bill Gates, you've got problems. I'm sure he would probably easily give a few billion dollars to get rid of all the problems that he has.

  Benjamin Carson

  Giving, Bills, Problem

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• I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.

  Kim Cattrall

  Smart, Mind, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One of the things that happens when people make the leap from a certain amount of money to tens of millions of dollars is that the people around you dramatically change.

  Dave Chappelle

  People, Certain, Leap

  "Dave Chappelle speaks: 'I'm not crazy; I'm not smoking crack'" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. May 16, 2005.

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• Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.

  Chris Chocola

  Agency, Government, Years

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• They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.

  Chris Christie

  Health, Years, Reform

  Chris Christie's speech at the Republican National Convention, www.foxnews.com. August 28, 2012.

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• President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission.

  William J. Clinton

  Two, President, Debt

  William J. Clinton's speech to the Democratic National Convention, www.washingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Hollywood still makes things. We still export a couple billion dollars' worth of product overseas. Original, new product. Some people might not agree that it's original or new, but basically it is.

  George Clooney

  Couple, People, Hollywood

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• I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.

  Harlan Coben

  Heart, People, Reader

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• We're adults. We're the ones who should teach the kids what's good to eat. I don't think the government should ever regulate what we eat at home, but we're feeding them in school with tax dollars. Quite frankly, if my tax dollars are being spent to feed kids, I'd rather feed them better food.

  Tom Colicchio

  Home, School, Kids

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• Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to bribe businesses in another state to move? Which then causes the target state to use taxpayer dollars to try to bribe the businesses to stay.

  Gail Collins

  Moving, Thinking, Law

  "Border Raids". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 19, 2013.

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• The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn't have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities.

  Gail Collins

  Cutting, College, Government

  "The Value of College". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 25, 2012.

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• The internet in hotels should be free - and I really resent it when they charge you five dollars for a bottle of water beside your bed.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Water, Bed, Bottles

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• I think, and I mean this sincerely, I was raised humbly. We were a lower middle income family and a household that was scrimping by at times. We were watching the dollar, stretching the dollar, and coupons. It was all those things.

  Bryan Cranston

  Mean, Thinking, Income

  "Exclusive: Bryan Cranston Talks BREAKING BAD Season 3 and 4, TOTAL RECALL, DRIVE, ROCK OF AGES, LARRY CROWNE & LINCOLN LAWYER". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. June 1, 2011.

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• Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.

  John Cusack

  Gun, Law, Insane

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