"The moon is so beautiful. It's a big silver dollar, flipped by God. And it landed scarred side up, see? So He made the world."
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"The market is regarded as democratic because everybody has a vote. Of course, some have more votes than others because your votes depend on the number of dollars you have, but everybody participates and therefore it's called democratic."
"I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents."
"Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms."
"Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do."
"We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege."
"A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way."
"I dumb down for my audience and double my dollars..."
"One corpse, extra crispy! Do I hear a thousand dollars?"
"This is why I turned down multiple $Million Dollar Offers for my website. Because the positive impact you have in other lives is more important than a quick cash out."
"People who are disenfranchised politically and people who are poor often don't vote. They often don't elect politicians, so the politicians who are supporting them are really being very charitable, because they're not going to give them billions of dollars in campaign funds."
"The US dollar will make new lows"
"Percentage margins are not one of the things we are seeking to optimize. It’s the absolute dollar free cash flow per share that you want to maximize, and if you can do that by lowering margins, we would do that. So if you could take the free cash flow, that’s something that investors can spend. Investors can’t spend percentage margins."
"As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars."
"When you finish college, you don’t suddenly have thousands of dollars a year to spend elsewhere - in fact, you have to find a way to pay back your loans."
"Maybe you play a melody twice. You play it once like you like it, and some parts that you don't like you can just switch. An eight-bar motive - you can just take it and put it in the front or back or something like that. It can save you 50 or 60 or 70,000 dollars, a drum machine. That's why everybody uses it."
"You get in a lot of trouble when you start putting fictitious numbers on value. I think to just say, we're going to say a dollar of cash is worth $2 all of a sudden, it isn't worth $2. It's worth a dollar today. And I think once you start putting phony figures into financial statements, you get in a lot of trouble."