Dollars famous quotes

We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
-- A. Philip Randolph

#Eye #Thinking #Dollars

R-E-L-A-X. I'm still getting paid millions of dollars.
-- Aaron Rodgers

#Dollars #Stills

The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... In Great Britain, the situation is similar. ... Until the figures are reversed, ... nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.
-- Abraham Flexner

#War #United States #Dollars

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Men #Dollars #Republican

If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Two #Dollars #Good Thoughts

White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
-- Adam McKay

#White #Bored #Dollars

If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.
-- Aesop Rock

#Book #Sleep #Dollars

From 1949 to the present, for every dollar the US spent on an African, it spent $250.65 on an Israeli, and for every dollar it spent on someone from the Western Hemisphere outside the US, it spent $214 on an Israeli.
-- Ahdaf Soueif

#Atheism #Dollars #Hemisphere

If God takes away from us the old, wrinkled, beat-up dollar bill we have clutched so desperately, it is only because He wants to exchange it for the whole Federal mint, the entire treasury! He is saying to us, 'I have in store for you all the resources of heaven. Help yourself.'
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Heaven #Dollar Bills #Dollars

It's harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.
-- Alan Cooper

#Jobs #Thinking #Dollars

Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.
-- Alberto Korda

#Cameras #Dollars #Lenses

Evidence of defendants lavish lifestyles is often used to provide a motive for fraud. Jurors sometimes wonder why an executive making tens of millions of dollars would cheat to make even more. Evidence of habitual gluttony helps provide the answer.
-- Alex Berenson

#Dollars #Answers #Helping

When you only have a million dollar annual budget and a Super Bowl ad costs $4 million, you have to do something very creative to get onto the Super Bowl.
-- Allen St. Pierre

#Creative #Dollars #Cost

When you look what is happening in this country with the debt, the deficit, the CBO coming out and saying once again we're going to have a trillion dollar plus deficit in 2012, the fourth straight year, and unemployment may be going back up to 8.9 or maybe nine percent by the end of the year, these are serious situations that are going.
-- Allen West

#Country #Years #Dollars

For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart.
-- Amanda Hocking

#Book #People #Dollars

When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.
-- Andrea Jung

#Children #Impact #Dollars

The boom was healthy too, even with its excesses. Because what this incredible valuation craze did was draw untold sums of billions of dollars into building the Internet infrastructure. The hundreds of billions of dollars that got invested in telecommunications, for example.
-- Andy Grove

#Healthy #Example #Dollars

If had a penny for every strange look I've gotten from strangers on the street I'd have about 10 to 15 dollars, which is a lot when you're dealing with pennies.
-- Andy Samberg

#Dollars #Looks #Pennies

My biggest problem in the big leagues is that I can't figure out how to spend forty-three dollars in meal money.
-- Andy Van Slyke

#League #Meals #Dollars

If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam - oh wait, he does.
-- Ann Coulter

#Waiting #Doe #Dollars

Money always changes the game, when you let a dollar come between you and your friends, your cohorts.
-- Anthony Mackie

#Games #Dollars

Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.
-- Anzia Yezierska

#Giving #Dollars #Dimes

And just remember, every dollar we spend on outsourcing is spent on U.S. goods or invested back in the U.S. market. That's accounting.
-- Arthur Laffer

#Dollars #Remember #Outsourcing

An engineer can do for a dollar what any fool can do for two
-- Arthur M. Wellington

#Two #Dollars #Fool

Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.
-- Arthur Miller

#Kids #Dollars #Remember

I think in reality the Japanese have to make changes in monetary policy, otherwise we're still going to be dealing with some upward pressure on the yen against the dollar.
-- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

#Reality #Thinking #Dollars

We've created a multitrillion-dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets - and have only the rudiments of a system to prepare patients for the near certainty that those tickets will not win. Hope is not a plan, but hope is our plan.
-- Atul Gawande

#Winning #Dollars #Tickets

Why does the UN need to raise money for ebola? Can't the gov just print the damn dollars themselves and get this done already.
-- Azealia Banks

#Ebola #Doe #Dollars

I have some figures which compare the cost of one kilo of airplane compared to one kilo of rice. One kilo of airplane costs thirty thousand US dollars and one kilo of rice is seven cents. And if you want to pay for your one kilo of high-tech products with a kilo of rice, I don’t think we have enough.
-- B. J. Habibie

#Airplane #Thinking #Dollars

I have been a strong proponent of pay-as-you-go. Every dollar that I've proposed, I've proposed an additional cut so that it matches.
-- Barack Obama

#Strong #Cutting #Dollars

Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, it’s an embarrassment. Women deserve equal pay for equal work.
-- Barack Obama

#Men #Equal Pay #Dollars

The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.
-- Barbara Corcoran

#Dollars #Stories #Billions

Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business
-- Barbara Corcoran

#Sharks #Dollars #Tales

I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.
-- Barbara Goldsmith

#Art #Dollars #Guilty

She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying women and using them as a reserve cheap labor supply
-- Bella Abzug

#Years #Challenges #Dollars

Life Insurance is the only tool that takes pennies and guarantees dollars.
-- Ben Feldman

#Dollars #Tools #Guarantees

I do not sell life insurance. I sell money. I sell dollars for pennies apiece. My dollars cost 3 cents per dollar per year.
-- Ben Feldman

#Years #Pennies #Dollars

So if there were a container of contaminated urine, and somehow it managed to find its way to someplace a lot of damage could be done. Someone comes up to a lab worker. He knows he’s got the urine. ‘How would you like to have a million dollars?’ … Such things have been known to happen.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Dollars #Done #Labs

Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Watches #Dollars #Care

I'd be a billionaire if I could get a dollar for all the bullsh*t that I hear a day.
-- Big Sean

#Dollars #Billionaire

I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say work, you know, words, randomly arranged to form millions of dollars... I'm not bitter at all...
-- Bill Bailey

#Dollars #Burning #Bitter

Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half.
-- Bill Geist

#New York #Class #Dollars

If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.
-- Bill Haywood

#Men #Dollars

Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to get their own dollars out of the machine. Who ever thought you'd pay cash to get cash? That's where we've gotten to.
-- Bill Janklow

#Pockets #Dollars #Machines

I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.
-- Bill Keller

#Thinking #Names #Dollars

Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.
-- Bill Nye

#Real #Dollars #Inference

My father once told me that anyone who worked for three dollars an hour owed it to himself to put in four dollars' worth of work.
-- Bill Russell

#Father #Excellence #Dollars

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.
-- Billie Jean King

#Sports #Dollars #Finance

For every dollar that a man makes, a woman makes 70 cents. That doesn't make sense. That's not fair, the man's only left with 30.
-- Bo

#Men #Dollars #He Man

During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of reduced spending in exchange for a $1 trillion dollar tax increase.
-- Bob Beauprez

#Dollars #Campaigns #Election

When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, 'Putt for one hundred dollars'.
-- Bob Schieffer

#Motivation #Dollars #Hundred

When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on.
-- Bob Woodward

#Lying #Voice #Dollars

My former wife made me a millionaire. I used to have three million dollars.
-- Bobby Hull

#Hockey #Wife #Dollars

My only request is that I draw my last dollar and my last breath at the exact same moment.
-- Bobby Layne

#Dollars #Lasts #Moments

I must tell you, to get started today must be very difficult 'cause whatever it takes today is very tough. They have to invest a million dollars in a video just to see if you have a hit record.
-- Bobby Vinton

#Dollars #Video #Records

I don't care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I'd want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I'd want to be the best at whatever I do.
-- Branch Rickey

#Jobs #Dollars #Care

What you call idiot points, I call awesome dollars. ~Seth
-- Brandon Mull

#Dollars #Idiot

Aha! Today I shall become an author! And I will auth and auth and auth and make a squillion dollars, whoopee!
-- Brian Jacques

#Dollars #Today

There are so many angles to follow up: government incompetence, sophisticated charity scams, how insurance companies treat victims, construction of the levees, who will start ripping off the billions of dollars available in new contracts. Every single one of these stories is going to be a big one.
-- Brian Ross

#Government #Dollars #Stories

You can't pay for healthcare if we're sending a trillion dollars a year to dictators.
-- Brian Schweitzer

#Years #Dollars #Pay

The greatest million dollar insight I can give anybody is find a big problem and then solve it in a big way.
-- Brian Tracy

#Giving #Dollars #Way

I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.
-- Brian Wilson

#Dollars #Vote #Enough

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.
-- Brit Hume

#Way #Dollars #Down And

Michael [Marcus] taught me one thing that was incredibly important... He taught me that you could make a million dollars. He showed me that if you applied yourself, great things could happen. It is very easy to miss the point that you really can do it.
-- Bruce Kovner

#Missing #Important #Dollars

Place your stops at a point that, if reached, will reasonably indicate that the trade is wrong, not at a point determined primarily by the maximum dollar amount you are willing to lose
-- Bruce Kovner

#Dollars #Determined #Trade

I think, and I mean this sincerely, I was raised humbly. We were a lower middle income family and a household that was scrimping by at times. We were watching the dollar, stretching the dollar, and coupons. It was all those things.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Mean #Thinking #Dollars

Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.
-- Carl Icahn

#Dollars #Quarters #Billions

In love, 100 pennies do not equal a dollar.
-- Carlos Salinas de Gortari

#Love #Dollars #Pennies

I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Strong #Thinking #Dollars

I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Thinking #Dollars #Boon

Stealing is stealing, whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data or dollars.
-- Carmen Ortiz

#Data #Dollars #Use

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.
-- Carrie P. Meek

#Years #Dollars #Band

The poorest person is not one without a dollar but one without a dream.
-- Catherine DeVrye

#Dream #Motivation #Dollars

My daddy used to maintain, if you have to use ten-dollar words, what you're trying to say isn't worth a dime.
-- Charlene Weir

#Daddy #Trying #Dollars

Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom. Not being bought and sold by some idiot employer, not having the moments of her days valued in fractions of a dollar by somebody other than herself.
-- Charles Frazier

#Book #Dollars #Littles

Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents.
-- Charles Goodyear

#Dollars #Should #Standards

We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.
-- Charles Kettering

#Thinking #Dollars #Too Much

I proved to you that psychiatry is an exact science!" "An exact science?!" "Yes, you owe me exactly one hundred and forty-three dollars!
-- Charles M. Schulz

#Dollars #Three #Hundred

Three men were laying brick. The first was asked: " What are you doing? He answered: " Laying some brick." The second man was asked: " What are you working for? " He answered: " Five dollars a day." The third man was asked: " What are you doing? He answered: " I am helping to build a great cathedral." Which man are you?
-- Charles R. Schwab

#Men #Dollars #Three

Some folks serve the almighty dollar far more faithfully than the Almighty God. They get greater delight out of balancing the budget than watching the Lord multiply the loaves and fishes.
-- Charles R. Swindoll

#Christian #Religion #Dollars

You haven’t experienced awkwardness until you’ve seen a three-million-dollar piece of software cry.
-- Charles Yu

#Dollars #Three #Pieces

Crist noted that his office has received multiple fraud complaints in which potential buyers said they lost thousands of dollars. I don't know if we've seen anything of this exact nature before, .. We won't tolerate it.
-- Charlie Crist

#Office #Dollars #Buyers

There's a need to reform Medicare, but not a need to cut a half trillion dollars out of Medicare.
-- Charlie Dent

#Cutting #Reform #Dollars

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.
-- Charlie Watts

#Fall #Dollars #Wake Up

I don’t create art to get high dollar projects, I do high dollar projects so I can create more art.
-- Chase Jarvis

#Art #Dollars #Getting High

My experience says that if you put out a lot of personal work that's good, it tends to attract high dollar commercial work. But to be clear - I don't create art to get high dollar projects, I do high dollar projects so I can create more art.
-- Chase Jarvis

#Photography #Art #Dollars

They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.
-- Chris Christie

#Years #Reform #Dollars

I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 million dollars from playing. It is unreal.
-- Chris Cornell

#Texas #Play #Dollars

But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars.
-- Christiane Amanpour

#Years #Cnn #Dollars

Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues.
-- Chuck Zito

#House #Dollars #Care

Names that tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often proceeds the selection of a name
-- Claude C. Hopkins

#Writing #Names #Dollars

Advertising is utterly unprofitable, and I could prove it to you in one week. End an ad with an offer to pay five dollars to anyone who writes you that he read the ad through. The scarcity of replies will amaze you.
-- Claude C. Hopkins

#Writing #Dollars #Scarcity

I've concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn't dollars but the individual people whose lives I've touched.
-- Clayton Christensen

#People #Dollars #Metrics

Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.
-- Clifford Odets

#Dollar Bills #Dollars #Bills

My chair just broke by the way. It's a billion dollar corporation and I can't get a decent chair and somebody to come out here and fix this announce table.
-- CM Punk

#Wwe #Dollars #Tables

The engineer who counts cost as nothing as compared to the result, who holds himself above the consideration of dollars and cents, has missed his vocation.
-- Coleman Sellers II

#Dollars #Cost #Economics

I was sixty-six years old. I still had to make a living. I looked at my social security check of 105 dollars and decided to use that to try to franchise my chicken recipe. Folks had always liked my chicken.
-- Colonel Sanders

#Years #Trying #Dollars

Lipstick on your collar said you were untrue. Bet your bottom dollar, you and I are through.
-- Connie Francis

#Dollars #Said #Collars

No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.
-- Corra May Harris

#Tombstone #Dollars #Looks

There was an embarrassing moment at a recent Democratic fundraiser. When John Kerry was handed a $10 million dollar check, he said, 'I do.'
-- Craig Kilborn

#Dollars #Moments #Embarrassing