![He [Thomas Edison] considered [money] as a raw material, like metal, to be used rather than amassed, and so he kept plowing his funds into new projects. Several times he was all but bankrupt. But he refused to let dollar signs govern his actions.](/assets/img/quote-photos/he-thomas-edison-considered-money-as-a-raw-material-like-metal-to-be-used-r.jpg)
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The possibility exists that they would get upset with us at some pint and sell dollars. And if they sold all those dollars right away, the value of the dollar would plummet, interest rates would spike and the U.S. would go into a recession. Clyde Prestowitz
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You don't have to raise millions of dollars to be successful, you just have to work on something you are passionate about. Nick Woodman
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I never cared about money. I'm not destined to be a rich woman. I'm destined to be a woman who makes a lot of money and never has any. I've made millions and millions and millions of dollars and I just spend it. Cher
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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
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Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents. Charles Goodyear
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I'm not a big fan of a lot of government dollars going into research and development for private enterprises... and you're not going to see the House of Representatives, I'm certain, provide a lot of money for research and development for electric vehicles.
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We've been able to negotiate with guys because they understand this is something special and they want to be a part of it. Maybe they could squeeze a few dollars more out of somebody else, but they realize that the few extra dollars they may get won't trump what's going on here. Joe Dumars
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We're spending a lot more tax dollars and we're wasting lives because we're not treating them early enough to keep them from deteriorating.
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Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses. ... Galileo and Hume first upheld this principle with full clarity and decisiveness. Albert Einstein
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And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it. Neil Gaiman
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber. Maxim Gorky
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The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material. Karl Marx
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Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft. P. D. James
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Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices. Benjamin Graham
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Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up. Helen Gurley Brown
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Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market. Eric Hobsbawm
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The right raw materials can...double or triple the protective power of the immune system, Joel Fuhrman
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We ran, plowing through another pile of peppers. [No, I didn't pick a peck of them, Sadie - just shut up.] Rick Riordan
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He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed. Plato
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Wisdom that don't make us happier ain't worth plowing for. Josh Billings
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It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels. Katharine Hepburn
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the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying. Robert Green Ingersoll