Dollars Quotes - Page 26

• Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. ... What I feel most moved to write, that is banned - it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way I cannot. So the product is a final hash, and all my books are botches.

  Herman Melville

  Book, Writing, Doors

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle, Hershel Parker (1988). “Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition”, p.630, Northwestern University Press

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• After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Money, Wall, Thinking

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• One of the most helpful things that anybody can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world. They have cost stock traders, in the aggregate, enough millions of dollars to build a concrete highway across the continent.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Giving Up, Two, Trying

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• For every dollar spent on spaying and neutering now, $17 is saved and can be used for other community projects. We work with the animals and the people who love them.

  Doris Day

  Animal, People, Community

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• It makes me self-conscious. It's because I'm known, in the limelight, that it's getting all the gravy, but if you knew, if you saw some of the people who make it possible for UNICEF to help these children survive. These are the people who do the jobs-the unknowns, whose names you will never know...I at least get a dollar a year, but they don't.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Jobs, Children, Self

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• A baby-sitter is a teenager who gets two dollars an hour to eat five dollars' worth of your food.

  Henny Youngman

  Inspirational, Baby, Teenage

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• My experience says that if you put out a lot of personal work that's good, it tends to attract high dollar commercial work. But to be clear - I don't create art to get high dollar projects, I do high dollar projects so I can create more art.

  Chase Jarvis

  Photography, Art, Getting High

  "Chase Jarvis: How He Became The Photographer Everyone Wants To Work With". Interview with Dan Schawbel, www.forbes.com. January 27, 2014.

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• What we also have to recognize is that the deficit levels that I'm inheriting, over a trillion dollars, coming out of last year, that that is unsustainable. At a certain point, other countries stop buying our debt, at a certain point, we'd end up having to raise interest rates, and it would end up creating more economic chaos and potentially inflation.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Money, Years

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• Here's what I can tell the American people: 95 percent of you will get a tax cut. And if you make less than $250,000, less than a quarter-million dollars a year, then you will not see one dime's worth of tax increase.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Cutting, Years

  "The First Presidential Debate". "NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.nytimes.com. September 26, 2008.

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• Is this money well spent? This is taxpayer money, it is going to be adding to the deficit short term and if we can't justify it, then we're not going to spend tens or hundreds of billions of dollars, just to make somebody happy, if it's not good for the economy.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Economy, Taxpayers

  Interview with John Harwood, www.nbcnews.com. January 7, 2012.

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• When George Bush came into office, we had surpluses. And now we have half-a-trillion-dollar deficit annually. When George Bush came into office, our national debt was around $5 trillion. It's now over $10 trillion. We've almost doubled it.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Office, Debt

  "Transcript of second McCain, Obama debate". edition.cnn.com. October 7, 2008.

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• The engineer who counts cost as nothing as compared to the result, who holds himself above the consideration of dollars and cents, has missed his vocation.

  Coleman Sellers II

  Cost, Economics, Consideration

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• The monogram of our national initials, which is the symbol for our monetary unit, the dollar, is almost as frequently conjoined to the figures of an engineer's calculations as are the symbols indicating feet, minutes, pounds, or gallons. ... This statement, while true in regard to the work of all engineers, applies particularly to that of the mechanical engineer.

  Henry R. Towne

  Feet, Pounds, Economics

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• The gang that trashed the town was now back in town to trash it even more and you'll never guess.. they decided that the only way to save an economy brought to its knees by their collective actions and the banking system they represent was to, well, no, surely not.. hand trillions of taxpayer-borrowed dollars to the Rothschild-controlled banks and insurance companies like CitiGroup, J. P. Morgan, AIG and a long list of others.

  David Icke

  Hands, Long, Way

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• Given the current state of our finances, we could sure use a quarter of a trillion dollars a year recycling through the U.S. economy rather than through the economies of Iran, Russia, and Venezuela.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Russia, Iran, Years

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• If government manages to establish paper tickets or bank credit as money, as equivalent to gold grams or ounces, then the government, as dominant money-supplier, becomes free to create money costlessly and at will. As a result, this 'inflation' of the money supply destroys the value of the dollar or pound, drives up prices, cripples economic calculation, and hobbles and seriously damages the workings of the market economy.

  Murray Rothbard

  Government, Gold, Tickets

  "Taking Money Back" by Murray Rothbard, The Freeman, September-October 1995.

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• Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper benefit society, since they help alleviate natural scarcity. But once a commodity is established as a money on the market, no more money at all is needed. Since the only use of money is for exchange and reckoning, more dollars or pounds or marks in circulation cannot confer a social benefit: they will simply dilute the exchange value of every existing dollar or pound or mark.

  Murray Rothbard

  Money, Oil, Discovery

  "Making Economic Sense". Book by Murray Rothbard (p. 274), 1995.

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• Billions of dollars of grant money [over $50 billion] are flowing into the pockets of those on the man-made global warming bandwagon. No man-made global warming, the money dries up. This is big money, make no mistake about it. Always follow the money trail and it tells a story.

  James Spann

  Mistake, Men, Pockets

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• I think there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling into their projects. And I think we are seeing almost weekly or even daily scientists are coming forward and questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change.

  Rick Perry

  Men, Thinking, Numbers

  "Rick Perry accuses scientists of 'manipulating' climate data". www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2011.

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• I was sixty-six years old. I still had to make a living. I looked at my social security check of 105 dollars and decided to use that to try to franchise my chicken recipe. Folks had always liked my chicken.

  Colonel Sanders

  Years, Trying, Six Year Olds

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• In love, 100 pennies do not equal a dollar.

  Carlos Salinas

  Love, Pennies, Equal

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• The ideal of a perfectly functioning democracy is one person, one vote; the ideal of a perfectly functioning market is one dollar, one vote.It's a hoary superstition that democratically elected governments invariably function as instruments of the collective will.A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Government, Order, Democracy

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• Currency speculation-over a trillion dollars a day-is a tax-free activity. The notion of a tax on "day trades" or other speculative swaps was revived in recent years, but has been studiously ignored by all our purveyors of conventional economic wisdom. That is because we have been persuaded, against logic, and moral sense, that the institution that most needs our support these days is not society, nor the human community, but the global corporation.

  Eric Kierans

  Years, Support, Community

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• We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Life, People, Way

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• Making money isn't the main point of business. Money is a by-product.... A new product has been found, something of use to the world. A new industry moves into an undeveloped area. Factories go up, machines go in and you're in business. It's coincidental that people who've never seen a dime now have a dollar and barefooted kids wear shoes and have their faces washed. What's wrong with an urge that gives people libraries, hospitals, baseball diamonds and movies on a Saturday night?

  Humphrey Bogart

  Baseball, Moving, Kids

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