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Next Page »Martin Luther King Jr.: Cost Nation
on Thursday, September 3, 2020Martin Luther King Jr. Money Quote saying you can pay now or pay later, but our past lack of action is going to cost future generations. Martin Luther King Jr. said:
“It didn’t cost the nation anything to integrate hotels and motels. It didn’t cost the nation a penny to guarantee the right to vote. Now we are in a period where it will cost the nation billions of dollars to get rid of poverty, to get rid of slums, to make quality integrated education a reality” — Martin Luther King Jr.
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Benjamin Franklin: A Penny Saved
on Wednesday, January 8, 2020Benjamin Franklin Money Quote saying that if one avoids spending money, it is as good as income. Benjamin Franklin said:
“A penny saved is a penny earned” — Benjamin Franklin
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Madeleine K. Albright: Penny Profit
on Wednesday, May 15, 2019Madeleine K. Albright Money Quote saying that the president has a world view of competing businesses to maximize profit in every interaction. Madeleine K. Albright said:
“[Trump] conceives of the world as a battlefield in which every country is intent on dominating every other; where nations compete like real estate developers to ruin rivals and squeeze every penny of profit out of deals” — Madeleine K. Albright
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Warren Buffett: Delivered Papers For Penny
on Tuesday, September 4, 2018Warren Buffett Money Quote saying he was a newspaper carrier as a kid and delivered about a half-million papers in Omaha. Warren Buffett said:
“I delivered about 500,000 papers, and I made about a penny each. So it was about $5,000 I made” — Warren Buffett
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#NationalNewsPaperCarrierDay #NewsPaperCarrierDay #PaperBoyDay September 4
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Eric Clapton: Blew it at Penny Arcade
on Monday, March 5, 2018Eric Clapton Money Quote saying in the song ‘Riding with the King’ (with B.B. King) that he blew through his pay check at a penny arcade, even though he was well paid. Eric Clapton said:
“I dreamed I had a good job and I got well paid. I blew it all at the penny arcade” — Eric Clapton
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Chuck Grassley: Estate Tax Spend or Invest
on Monday, December 4, 2017Chuck Grassley Money Quote saying he believes that the rich are morally superior and deserve to keep everything in the family when they die instead of tax the wealth to contribute back to society. Chuck Grassley said:
“I think not having the estate tax recognizes the people that are investing, as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or movies” — Chuck Grassley
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Frederick Douglass: Three-Penny Tea Tax
on Tuesday, July 4, 2017Frederick Douglass Money Quote saying saying On July 5, 1852, in Rochester speech, “What to the slave is the 4th of July?” He asked why Americans just 76 years before risked their lives to avoid a tea tax, but thought nothing of slavery. Frederick Douglass said:
You can bare your bosom to the storm of British artillery to throw off a three-penny tax on tea; and yet wring the last hard earned farthing from the grasp of the black laborers of your country
— Frederick Douglass
Born February 14, 1818 – Died February 20, 1895
George Eliot: Every Penny a Purpose
on Saturday, September 17, 2016George Eliot Money Quote saying our priorities change as needs and desires evolve, especially when there’s no goal to focus our energy toward with love. George Eliot said:
“Mysterious money had stood to him as the symbol of earthly good, and the immediate object of toil. He had seemed to love it little in the years when every penny had its purpose for him; for he loved the purpose then. But now, when all purpose was gone, that habit of looking towards the money and grasping it with a sense of fulfilled effort made a loam that was deep enough for the seeds of desire” — George Eliot
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