Dollars quotes
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"Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars."
"Republicans are horrible with civil liberties, and not so good with dollars and cents. Democrats are horrible with dollars and cents, and not so good with civil liberties."
"You can cuss out colonialism, imperialism, and all other kinds of ism, but it's hard for you to cuss that dollarism. When they drop those dollars on you, your soul goes."
"If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work."
"If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts"
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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."
"You'll never see a U-Haul behind a hearse. ... Now, I've been blessed to make hundreds of millions of dollars in my life. I can't take it with me, and neither can you. It's not how much you have but what you do with what you have."
"Every single person you meet, look at them like a golden million dollar baby."
"Worried bout ya followers? You need to get ya dollars up."
"Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves."
"A dollar might turn to a million and we all rich that's just how i feel"
"I've seen Keith fall asleep at business meetings about millions of dollars for him-because of heroin, just nod out and then wake up and answer a question."
"I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's a fantastic brand loyalty."
"Greetings, friends. Do you wish to look as happy as me? Well, you've got the power inside you right now. So use it and send one dollar to Happy Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. Don't delay. Eternal happiness is just a dollar away."
"A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again."
"The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion."
"A million dollars isn't what it used to be."
"I got a kick out of having a big bankroll in my pocket. Even if I only made a couple hundred dollars, I'd always keep it in fives and tens so it'd look big."
"I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history."
"The single greatest invention man ever conceived in the dollar bill, because I don't want to know the conversion rate for coconuts."
"Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that."
"It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget."
"Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow that from your kids!"
"Every production is by faith, every single one. You can't do it unless you have faith because one, you never know if it's going to work, and two, if you aren't compelled and you aren't passionate, then you can't convince the studio to give you millions of dollars to make a movie and then spend millions more to market it."
"If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400."
