"People say, "Do you know how much a million dollars is?" I don't have a clue. How many Big Macs will it buy me?"
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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."
"The camera adds ten pounds and ten thousand dollars."
"The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society."
"I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true."
"I took a hundred dollars from a blindman's hand."
"Someone must stand up to those who say, "Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want.""
"I eventually want to be the anchor of the first trillion-dollar company."
"I'm so Optimistic I'll take my last 2 dollars and buy a Money Belt."
"There's a wealth that has nothing to do with dollars, that comes from the perspective and wisdom of paying attention to your life."
"It scares the living crap out of me how good wine is at ten dollars."
"The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social disease of our country; I call it Pentagonorrhea."
"How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?"
"Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy."
"All about a dollar like four quarters."
"Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'."
"This is one step along the road of moving away from a dollar peg and moving to a floating basket. This implies China will be accumulating dollars at a slower rate."
"People need such a small amount of money to deal with their own daily life. Because wherever I went to school they taught me about millions of dollars. I dealt with billions of dollars in national plans and investment plans and so on. Not this tiny money, $27 for 42 people."
"The Romans worshipped their standard; and the Roman standard happened to be an eagle. Our standard is only one tenth of an eagle,--a dollar, but we make all even by adoring it with tenfold devotion."
"I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars."