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- I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
- Jim Carrey, Oprah Winfrey Show, 1997
- Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Fortune, Nov. 9, 1998
- I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Apple Confidential 2.0
- Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.
- Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days, 2006
- America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.
- John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)
- Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged
- The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), First on the Moon, 1970
- A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
- Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
- Look at this. It's worthless - ten dollars from a vendor in the street. But I take it, I bury it in the sand for a thousand years, it becomes priceless.
- George Lucas (1944 - ), Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981
- There needs to be bolder thinking, ... on how to measure the quality of life of men and women in the work force. Currently, success is measured by material advancements. We need to readjust the definition of success to account for time outside of work and satisfaction of life, not just the dollars-and-cents bottom line.
- Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)
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