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• If you want more money, don't pay attention to the money. Pay attention to the thing that makes the money.

  Brandon Steiner

  Attention, Want, Pay

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• We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation more money and liberty than their youth can handle, by indoctrinating them with sinister ideologies and false values, by permitting them, as young children, to indulge themselves in imprudence to superiors and defiance of duly constituted authority, by lack of prudent, swift punishment when the transgressed, by coddling and pampering them when they were children and protecting them from a very dangerous world.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Children, Parenting, Dangerous World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I spend five times more money at a chemist shop than I would at a fashion boutique. Clothes shopping is optional for me; shopping at a chemist store is a must.

  Kajol

  Fashion, Shopping, Clothes

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• If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books.

  Stephen Leacock

  Reading, Book, Smoking

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• No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.

  Thomas E. Dewey

  Men, Office, Should

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• There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

  Adam Duritz

  People, Creative, Process

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• There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: More money for more work.

  Aleister Crowley

  Writing, Enemy, Half

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• For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world.

  Lech Walesa

  People, Doe, World

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• Every year of my working life, I have been fortunate enough to earn more money than I have spent.

  Giles Andreae

  Years, Enough, Working Life

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• We must have more union members in this country to fight the political and business forces that are undermining workers in this country. The AFL-CIO has chosen the opposite approach by planning to throw even more money at politicians.

  James P. Hoffa

  Country, Fighting, Opposites

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• Some people want to amass a great amount of wealth and make a great looking obituary. I'm going to die with more money than is good to leave my son.

  Darrell Issa

  Son, People, Want

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• I basically see two reasons for a going public: Glencore gets access to more money. It is a way of funding your business and to finance growth. Plus: You have more liquid shares. It is easier to leave the company and redeem your shares. The 'going public' may also be an exit strategy for the top management.

  Marc Rich

  Top Management, Two, Growth

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• During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, New York, Years

  H. L. Mencken (1924). “Prejudices Fourth Series”

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• Now and then, living more with less means paying more money. It may mean buying better quality - leaving behind repetitive purchases of discount junk for one expensive, well-made, thoughtfully designed tool that will last.

  Doris Janzen Longacre

  Mean, Simple, Leaving

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• The people who have more money and goods than any people in the history of the world spend most of their time worrying about not having enough.

  Jim Wallis

  People, Worry, World

  Jim Wallis (1981). “The call to conversion”, Harper San Francisco

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• It's a matter of fact that Senator Obama has spent more money on negative ads than any political campaign in history.

  John McCain

  Political, Negative, Campaigns

  John McCain at The Third Presidential Candidates Debate at Hofstra University at Hempstead, New York, www.nytimes.com. October 15, 2008.

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• The Bush administration, they had two blue ribbon commissions about infrastructure finance that recommended a lot more money, and additionally the gas tax being increased. We couldn't get them to accept being able to move forward. Since President Obama's been in office, there has been, to be charitable, a lack of enthusiasm for raising the gas tax.

  Ray LaHood

  Moving, Blue, Two

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• It may be an information age, but... It takes more work to earn more money to be overwhelmed by more information that does not equal knowledge or wisdom.

  Stephanie Mills

  Age, Doe, May

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.138, Island Press

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• I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.

  Martina Navratilova

  Money, Lied, Spending

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• If we're talking about buying exchanges abroad, we have to have global securities standards, as we have global banking regulations. I'm talking about margins. Now, the United States has certain margin requirements that are not the same in London. Investors and hedge funds that want to borrow more money against securities ? if they can't in the U.S., they go abroad. That could add additional risks to the global economy.

  Muriel Siebert

  Talking, Risk, United States

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• I buy newspapers to make money to buy more newspapers to make more money.

  Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet

  Making Money, Newspapers

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• It's an irony that growing inequality could mean more money for philanthropy. In the US, quite a few of the ultra-rich have taken to heart the 19th century industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie's comment that it's a disgrace to die wealthy.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Taken, Heart, Mean

  "Civil engineering" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2007.

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• I thought my chances to make the Braves were better and that they were being fairer to me, paying me more money to play in a lower classification ... Besides, the Giants spelled my name "Arron" on their telegram.

  Hank Aaron

  Names, Play, Brave

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• The kibbutz way of life is not for everyone. It is meant for people who are not in the business of working harder than they should be working, in order to make more money than they need, in order to buy things they don't really want, in order to impress people they don't really like.

  Amos Oz

  Order, People, Needs

  "The Great Disruption". "In Our Time", BBC Radio 4, www.bbc.co.uk. June 17, 1999.

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• The dreams of the past - whether it was public TV being rolled into the classroom to teach Spanish, or the film projectors or the videotapes or the computer-aided instruction drill systems - the hopes have been dashed in terms of technology having some big impact. The foundation, I think can play a unique role there. Now, our money is more to the teacher-effectiveness thing, and technology is No. 2, but I'll probably spend more money on the technology things.

  Bill Gates

  Dream, Teacher, Unique

  "Bill Gates Seeks Formula for Better Teachers". Interview with Stephanie Banchero, www.wsj.com. March 22, 2011.

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