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"I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest."
"I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked."
"Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women."
"They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy."
"To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold."
"Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace."
"We reward people a lot for being rich, for being famous, for being cute, for being thin... one of the values I think we need to instill in our country, in our children, is a sense of 'usefulness', in other words, are we useful, are we making other peoples' lives a little bit better?"
"One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election."
"I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody."
"money is a more taboo subject than sex. If you don't believe me, think about this: you have friends who tell you the intimate details of their sex-lives but they would be shocked if you asked them how much money they make."
"The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth."
"I've made an incredible amount of money stealing fans from homeowners."
"Secrets you were telling everybody but me.. Don't be fooled by the money I'm still just young and unlucky, I'm surprised you couldn't tell"
"If you wan to steal money, don't rob a bank - open one."
"If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?"
"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?"
"Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it."
"Money is hard to earn and easy to lose. Guard yours with care."
"How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care, Their bones with industry."
"The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it."
