Dollars Quotes - Page 39

• A hiker who was lost in a blizzard said he stayed alive by digging a snow tunnel and burning dollar bills for warmth. Today he was offered a job as President Obama's economic adviser.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Tunnels, Snow

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• Generally speaking, investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. Anything that improves your own talents; nobody can tax it or take it away from you. They can run up huge deficits and the dollar can become worth far less. You can have all kinds of things happen. But if you’ve got talent yourself, and you’ve maximized your talent, you’ve got a tremendous asset that can return ten-fold.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Investing, Return

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• The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Stories, Billions, Borrowed

  Barbara Corcoran, Bruce Littlefield (2011). “Shark Tales: How I Turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business”, p.11, Penguin

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• If I had one dollar left, I'd spend it on PR

  Bill Gates

  Left, Ifs

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• When elected, I will make education funding a top priority and I believe
  we must ensure those dollars reach our children and the classroom

  Chris Christie

  Children, Believe, Priorities

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• Romney raised $10 million. That’s a dollar for every position he’s had on healthcare.

  Jay Leno

  Healthcare, Raised, Position

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• You know all the money we spend on nuclear weapons and defence every year? Trillions of dollars? Correct? Trillions. Instead, if we spent that money feeding and clothing the poor of the world,which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, not one, we could, as one race, explore outer space together in peace forever

  Bill Hicks

  Years, Space, Race

  "Love All the People". New Edition,

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• In health care today, we spend most of the dollars - in terms of treating disease - in the last two years of a person's life.

  David Agus

  Motivation, Inspiration, Years

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• No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that. The magazine stories make it sound like Mark Zuckerberg woke up one day and wanted to redefine how the world communicates [by creating] a billion-dollar company. He didn't.

  Drew Houston

  Business, Zuckerberg, Creating

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• The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it.

  Stuart Chase

  Business, Games, Effort

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• Saddam Hussein has raised the amount going to suicide bombers from $10 thousand dollars to $25 thousand. What's next, a health care plan?

  Jay Leno

  Suicide, Bombers, Hussein

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• Medicaid provides health care to our neediest citizens. While other states have had to cut Medicaid rolls and benefits already, Delaware has not. But the President's proposed budget would shift tens of millions of dollars of cost to the states, raising the real possibility of program cuts.

  Ruth Ann Minner

  Real, Cutting, President

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• The largest portion of our state budget is Health and Human Services. It will grow by approximately $500 million. A half a billion dollars is a very big number.

  Mitt Romney

  Numbers, Half, Healthcare

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• If I had a million dollars, I just wouldn't just completely set back. I'd have to get out there and show my face to all these good people who like me, I have to get out there and show my face. The only thing that would set me back if I get sick or something or pass away, that's all you can do about that you know. But as long as I got my health goin' pretty good, I'll show up around here.

  Muddy Waters

  Long, People, Sick

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• My experience with novice traders is that they trade three to five times too big. They are taking 5 to 10 percent risks on a trade when they should be taking 1 to 2 percent risks. The emotional burden of trading is substantial; on any given day, I could lose millions of dollars. If you personalize these losses, you can’t trade.

  Bruce Kovner

  Loss, Emotional, Risk

  "Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders". Book by Jack D. Schwager, 1989.

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• Place your stops at a point that, if reached, will reasonably indicate that the trade is wrong, not at a point determined primarily by the maximum dollar amount you are willing to lose

  Bruce Kovner

  Determined, Trade, Maximum

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• Michael [Marcus] taught me one thing that was incredibly important... He taught me that you could make a million dollars. He showed me that if you applied yourself, great things could happen. It is very easy to miss the point that you really can do it.

  Bruce Kovner

  Missing, Important, Taught

  "Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders". Book by Jack D. Schwager, 1989.

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• Pyramiding instructions appear on dollar bills. Add smaller and smaller amounts on the way up. Keep your eye open at the top.

  Ed Seykota

  Eye, Dollar Bills, Add

  "Trend Following: Learn to Make Millions in Up or Down Markets". Book by Michael Covel, 2009.

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• The sport to which I owe so much has undergone profound changes, but it's still baseball. Kids still imitate their heroes on playgrounds. Fans still ruin expensive suits going after foul balls that cost five dollars. Hitting streaks still make the network news and hot dogs still taste better at the ballpark than at home.

  Duke Snider

  Sports, Baseball, Dog

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If a 13 year old girl is pregnant, that is evidence of sexual abuse and that’s supposed to be reported to the authorities and these people are never doing it. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the American abortion industry is running a pedophile protection racket and they’ve been doing it for years and they’re often getting federal tax dollars to run this thing.

  Mark Crutcher

  Girl, Running, Years

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• Ask Bill [Gates] why the string in [MS-DOS] function 9 is terminated by a dollar sign. Ask him, because he can't answer. Only I know that.

  Gary Kildall

  Answers, Bills, Strings

  "Bill Gates: Of Mind and Money". "Seattle Post-Intelligencer" Newspaper, May 8, 1991.

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• It's like pouring oil from one glass to another down a line - in the end, you don't have any oil left; it is all stuck to the inside of the glasses. This way, 1,000 dollars become 100 dollars by the time it reaches the people. Whereas if we get 10 dollars, we add our effort to it and the money multiplies.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Glasses, Oil, People

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• At a minimum the majority of search dollars will flow to a social media model because people care most about what their peers think and the technology is there for that information to be quickly shared on products and services.

  Erik Qualman

  Technology, Thinking, Media

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• The mantle of glamour has been taken from the women and given to the men. The women toil in their shadows, plain and ordinary-looking. So that transition has left a void. It is a void for drop-dead, impossible, over-the-top glamour. Supermodels fill that void. The only thing they have to do is work the runway, sweetie, and refuse to get out of bed for less than ten thousand dollars.

  RuPaul

  Taken, Men, Shadow

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• For average working folks, America was becoming a puzzle. Who was buying all these two-hundred-dollar copper saucepans, anyway? And how was everyone paying for these BMWs? Were people shrewd or just stupefyingly irresponsible?

  Daniel Suarez

  Average, Bmw, Two

  Daniel Suarez (2009). “Daemon”, p.5, Penguin

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