The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours.
The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be ...
I don't like precious things; I don't spend thousands of dollars on jewellery for myself. I like going into a junk store and finding something for five dollars. That's my style.
The Web is going to capture an increasing share of people's attention, and billions of dollars are going to flow in. What Web 2.0 is about is harnessing those dollars in highly leverageable ways.
So every dollar of income that I have that is potentially taxed away is a dollar I can't put in my company to create a job. My entire company is around job creation.
When we took on the name The Drifters, we became the new Drifters, and signed a contract to be put on salary, which I think was like a hundred dollars a week, a piece, five hundred dollars for all five of us.
I just want to be self-sustainable so that I can continue to just do what I like to do and not make a million dollars. Nobody needs a million dollars.
If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't.
Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually.
[Top Dollar noticed the crow on the table] Top Dollar: How the hell did that thing get in here? Eric Draven: Gentlemen!
El Indio: When the chimes end, pick up your gun. Try and shoot me, Colonel. Just try.
Fernando: [Points] That's the bank! As soon as I get some money, I'll put it in. Monco: But you're gonna have to earn it first.
Monco: [to Moprtimer, referring to the watch he took from Mortimer without his knowing] Very careless of you, old man.
Henry Hill: [narrating] Thirty-two hundred dollars he gave me. Thirty-two hundred dollars for a lifetime. It wasn't even enough to pay for the coffin.
Frankie Dunn: What you learn tonight? Maggie Fitzgerald: Always protect myself. Frankie Dunn: What's the rule? Maggie Fitzgerald: Always protect myself.
Maggie Fitzgerald: Will you tell him I'm real sorry? Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: No. I will do no such thing, Maggie.
Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: See the way she did that? Sugar Ray could do that. The girl's got Sugar!
Frankie Dunn: [to Father Horvak as he is coming out from Mass] Can you spare a few minutes for the Immaculate Conception?
Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: She grew up knowing one thing: she was trash.
Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S. dollar. Now ours is about 90 to one. That's had a big impact on crime and poverty.
You don't have to make, you know, $3 Million dollars a movie, or $20 Million dollars a movie, but if you make a living doing what you love doing, then that's success to me.
