Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dr. Seuss

If I went in debt a million dollars every time I committed genocide, I'd be our economy.

Donald Rumsfeld

Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was - by a taxpayer.

Donald Rumsfeld

It is very difficult to spend "federal (the taxpayers') dollars" so that the intended result is achieved.

Chuck Palahniuk

The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill.

Duke Snider

My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac.

Ambrose Bierce

One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.

If the dollar goes down, perhaps there are external reasons for weakness in the dollar, and gold is just going up on its own.

If the Fed indicates another hike is not set in stone, we'd probably see some dollar weakness.

If the bidders had offered the government a dollar for the Toll Road, it'd be a better deal. So to get $3.85 billion, that's phenomenal from a financial perspective.

If it's a pension plan, every dollar you take out is subject to ordinary income tax because that gain has never been taxed before and the IRS wants your money.

We couldn't have done this without the dollar for dollar match and the people willing to enhance the look of the community.

Well, we got so many nice letters from the principals about how much they appreciated the hundred dollars that we decided, well, let's try it for six more months.

We had a little flight-to-quality interest because of Iran. If we didn't have the Iran news underpinning the market, the stronger dollar would probably have had more of an impact on the metals trade.

Jules Verne

Put two Yankees in a room together, and in an hour they will each have gained ten dollars from the other.

Like grave robbers, who have no respect for the dead, this drug organization used revered tombstones to smuggle millions of dollars worth of cocaine into New York City.

Lynn is just a neophyte in the business. And all of the sudden, he gets a quarter-million dollars from people who don't even live here.

Let's see, I'll be paying $3300 dollars next year if nothing changes.

No. No I felt terrible for our customers. I felt terrible for the problems that they had. I understand putting 50 dollars of gas in your tank is a real problem. There was no price gouging in Western New York.

Only 29 million US dollars was bargained on the first trading day, decreasing by 33.17 percent from the previous one,

Bob Uecker

One time, I got pulled over at four AM. I was fined seventy-five dollars for being intoxicated and four-hundred for being with the Phillies.

(Music star) Jay Z, he pays millions of dollars for promotion, and I'm getting it for free.

Monetary policy expectations were the driving forces on the FX markets in most of 2005 and while we expect structural problems to come back to haunt the dollar in 2006 we expect monetary policy expectations to lend support to the greenback early in the year.

Monetary policy expectations were the driving forces on the FX (foreign exchange) markets in most of 2005 and while we expect structural problems to come back to haunt the dollar in 2006 we expect monetary policy expectations to lend support to the greenback early in the year.

Edward Abbey

One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.

The price-tag for all this is going to be enormous - tens of millions of dollars per year for at least a decade,

Dave Obey

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 Ramsey

We started in our living room on a card table in our living room, and we have a multi-million dollar company and we know it can be done without borrowing a dime. It takes a while to get it started and to turn the wheel over, but the next time it's easier and the next few hundred times, it's easier than that. Have a budget where you reinvest a percentage of every dollar you earn to grow it.

On a medium-term basis, the market senses the New Zealand dollar is overvalued. The market is worried about a substantial slow down in New Zealand growth.

Some 20 to 30 dollars (in the price per barrel) is pure speculation,

Steven Hall

Since October, many (online) brokerages have invested millions of dollars to expand their capacity.

Most of the small providers don't have the marketing dollars to get their Web site out there at the level that the destination does. So they rely on the destination to drive traffic to their site.

Millions of dollars would pour in as new investments.

Tom Shields

Millions of dollars have been spent on these lawsuits (restricting casinos), and no one has stepped up and taken responsibility for paying the bills. The question is, who is paying for it.