"Become a millionaire not for the million dollars, but for what it will make of you to achieve it."
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"The dollars aren't so important... once you have them."
"Wall Street, with its army of brokers, analysts, and advisers funneling trillions of dollars into mutual funds, hedge funds, and private equity funds, is an elaborate fraud."
"What good are you? What can you do? It has cost me a thousands of dollars to raise you, feed you, clothe you! Suppose I left you here on the street? Then what would you do?" "Catch butterflies"
"The greatest million dollar insight I can give anybody is find a big problem and then solve it in a big way."
"Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere."
"Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid."
"It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time to restrain the use of it within the limits of its faculties, "never to borrow a dollar without laying a tax in the same instant for paying the interest annually, and the principal within a given term; and to consider that tax as pledged to the creditors on the public faith.""
"Anyway, I went out and bought thousands of dollars worth of mature clothes so I'd look like a person to be taken seriously, instead of a pretty little twit"
"I can lose three million dollars because it's just paper. Thus, my lifestyle is not dependent up the stock market."
"When you have one million dollars, you're a lucky person. When you have 10 million dollars, you've got trouble, a lot of headaches."
"Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times."
"Some day I'll write a book and call it 'How I Got the Nickname Pumpsie' and sell it for one dollar, and if everybody who ever asked me that question buys the book, I'll be a millionaire."
"I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred."
"One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill."
"... No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year - if you check, you'll see that's more than most people make in a lifetime!"
"I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that."
"In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar."
"You can't pay for healthcare if we're sending a trillion dollars a year to dictators."
"Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends-the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions."