Quotes by Dollars If you can be sure of being right only 55 percent of the time, you can go down to Wall Street and make a million dollars a day. If you can't be sure of being right even 55 percent of the time, why should you tell other people they are wrong? Dale Carnegie dollars wall people If you've become a huge act and you're still doing the same music you wrote with your friends when you were making zero dollars, you're lazy. Dan Deacon lazy dollars zero While business advertises, charity is taught to beg. While business motivates with a dollar, charity is told to motivate with guilt. While business takes chances, charity is expected to be cautious. We measure the success of businesses over the long term, but we want our gratification in charity immediately. We are taught that a return on investment should be offered for making consumer goods, but not for making a better world. Dan Pallotta dollars guilt long We tell the for-profit sector, 'Spend, spend, spend on advertising until the last dollar no longer produces a penny of value,' but we don't like to see our donations spent on advertising in charity. Our attitude is, 'Well look, if you can get the advertising donated (at four o'clock in the morning) I'm okay with that, but I don't want my donation spent on advertising, I want it to go to the needy,' as if the money invested in advertising could not bring in dramatically greater sums of money to serve the needy. Dan Pallotta dollars attitude morning Start-ups like UniversityNow, a network of low-cost, online colleges, allows students to work at their own pace and pay a few hundred dollars a month for a degree. Dan Rather dollars degrees college Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists. Daniel Ek dollars artist two I love to make things. If I have some free time and you have a dollar and a dream and you are making something funny and cool I'd love to be a part of it. Daniel Franzese dollars ifs dream Any Westerner can now buy a Koran for a dollar and burn it, while any Muslim with a platform can transform that act into a fighting offense. As passions rise on both sides of the divide, Western provocateurs and Islamist hotheads have found each other, as confrontations occur with increasing frequency. Daniel Pipes dollars passion fighting If a trade deficit is determined solely by rates of savings and investment, then the U.S. trade deficit will be impervious to a get-tough trade policy. Slapping higher tariffs on imports will only deprive foreigners of the dollars they would have earned by selling in the U.S. market. Daniel T. Griswold dollars saving balance A premium in the oil price of somewhere between 10 to 15 dollars a barrel reflects this heightened anxiety. Daniel Yergin anxiety dollars oil When you're playing it as a business... your livelihood depends on winning and losing and so some- times sportsmanship is lost, as in the process of billion dollar companies. Danny Ainge sportsmanship dollars winning I want to be able to do what I want to do. A lot of times, the major labels, they can't see the vision, they can only see the dollar signs. So, it doesn't really work out like that. Danny Brown dollars work-out vision You know, it doesn't take a genius in the private sector to know that you can save literally hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending if you can make it more responsive. That's the main job. Darrell Issa dollars genius jobs You still owe me a million dollars." I'd presented him with a bill for proving his innocence and getting him freed from prison. He had yet to pay. Couldn't imagine why. "Yeah, I was hoping we could work that out." "The interest alone is going to kill you." "What do you charge?" "Three hundred eighty-seven percent." "Is that ethical?" "It's as ethical as my dating the son of Satan. Darynda Jones dating dollars son Aside from velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe. You can't see it or touch it, yet a plumber can charge you upwards of seventy-five dollars per hour for it, without necessarily fixing anything. Dave Barry dollars substance time I also saw a huge expansion of the Internet, with many major corporations, afraid of being left behind, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to develop World Wide Web sites in a frantic scramble to reach the vast new consumer market of Web use Dave Barry expansion dollars use I care about our young people, and I wish them great success, because they are our Hope for the Future, and some day, when my generation retires, they will have to pay us trillions of dollars in social security Dave Barry dollars wish people One of the things that happens when people make the leap from a certain amount of money to tens of millions of dollars is that the people around you dramatically change. Dave Chappelle dollars certain people To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise. Dave Eggers dollars support simple Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account. Dave Obey bank-accounts conviction dollars «56789101112131415»
