Dollar Quotes: Insights and Wisdom on the Power of Money

"Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed"

Curtis Carlson, Businessman

"I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats"

Joe Davis, Celebrity

"Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the world - a lot of them in Russia as you all know I'm sure"

Robert C. Solomon, Educator

"I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing"

Walter Lord, Author

"My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price"

Samuel Morse, Inventor

"I really wish there was some big brother conspiracy theory. I just think it's the ignorance of trying to make a dollar. That's what the networks have done and will continue to do. If anyone doesn't think that this is about making money, then they're crazy"

Montel Williams, Entertainer

"The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each"

Charles A. Jaffe, Businessman

"The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"I got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list"

Steven Wright, Comedian

"Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way"

O. Henry, Writer

"The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

"A dollar saved is a quarter earned"

John Ciardi, Dramatist

"On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

"America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks"

John Barrymore, Actor

"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, Athlete

"I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar"

Andrew Carnegie, Businessman

"We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said"

Klaus Kinski, Actor

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

Donald Rumsfeld, Politician

"If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you"

Jimmy Carter, President

"It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent"

Barack Obama, President

"The more competitive value of the dollar turned around the trade deficit"

Martin Feldstein, Economist

"The good news is that a competitive dollar in the global market and a strong dollar at home are compatible in both the long run and during the transition to a more competitive dollar"

Martin Feldstein, Economist

"But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of 1988"

Martin Feldstein, Economist

"Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit"

Martin Feldstein, Economist

"The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"After all, an overvalued dollar gives us the ability to buy foreign goods at lower prices. And the existing volume of exports brings more yen and euros than they would if the dollar were more competitive"

Martin Feldstein, Economist

"Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"Since the outbreak of war, there has been in our country a steady increase in the consumption of spirits, wine and beer. It is estimated that in dollar volume, the annual outlay is now practically double what it was before the war"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"But the primary reason for wanting the dollar to become more competitive in the near future is that we may need an increase in exports this year and in 2007 to sustain the economy's current pace of expansion"

Martin Feldstein, Economist

"If the Federal Reserve pursues a strong dollar at home while the dollar becomes more competitive in global markets, we can achieve both price stability and a more balanced path of economic growth"

Martin Feldstein, Economist

"But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries"

Martin Feldstein, Economist

"The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office"

John Cusack, Actor

"In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation or decreased economic growth"

Martin Feldstein, Economist

"Even if the dollar does decline during the coming months, the delays in the response of exports and imports to the more competitive dollar will mean that the increase in aggregate demand from this source may not happen for a year or more"

Martin Feldstein, Economist

"My theme this evening is that America needs a competitive dollar"

Martin Feldstein, Economist

"A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm"

Bill Vaughan, Journalist

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