Dollar Quotes: Insights and Wisdom on the Power of Money

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

"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

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

Jimmy Carter, President

"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

"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

"Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills"

Clifford Odets, Playwright

"Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room"

George Axelrod, Writer

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Andrew Carnegie, Businessman

"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

"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

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

Klaus Kinski, Actor

"Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders"

Chris Rock, Comedian

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

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Walter Lord, Author

"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

"They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead"

Henry A. Wallace, Vice President

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

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

W. C. Fields, Comedian

"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

"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

"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

"A dollar saved is a quarter earned"

John Ciardi, Dramatist

"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

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

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth"

Oprah Winfrey, Entertainer

"The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar"

Phil Donahue, Entertainer

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

Donald Rumsfeld, Politician

"Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

"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

"I don't care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I'd want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I'd want to be the best at whatever I do"

Branch Rickey, Athlete

"And just remember, every dollar we spend on outsourcing is spent on U.S. goods or invested back in the U.S. market. That's accounting"

Arthur Laffer, Economist

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