Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: money

No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.

It's about legacy, it's about moments, it's about being an icon - I'll do what I do and the money will flow.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.

My dream was to set up my own e-commerce company. In 1999, I gathered 18 people in my apartment and spoke to them for two hours about my vision. Everyone put their money on the table, and that got us $60,000 to start Alibaba. I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name.

My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.

It's not that other countries steal jobs from you guys. It's your strategy. Distribute the money and things in a proper way.

In the beginning I just wanted to survive. For the first three years, we made zero revenue. I remember many times when I was trying to pay up, the restaurant owner would say, 'Your bill was paid.' And there would be a note saying, 'Mr. Ma, I'm your customer on the Alibaba platform. I made a lot of money, and I know you don't, so I paid the bill.'

Spending money is much more difficult than making money.

I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.

IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?

Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States?

People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.

China is still the fastest growing economy in the world, but we need to learn how to use money in a better way, and it's about quality, not quantity.

Alibaba spends money on improving the products and services, not on kickbacks. That's a good thing. It's called a value system, and because of that, we get more and more small- to medium-sized companies to support us in China.

Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.

A poor worker is taxed heavily to receive his own money back with a modest supplement. Surely it would be more efficient just to pay the supplement and take him out of direct tax altogether.

Money you lose you can always make back. But even five minutes of time lost is gone forever.

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

If you look around in London, there is a lot of dirty money. People see it as a safe haven: a bolthole to rely on if they are criminal or politically exposed in their own country.

Make sure to save for the future and keep making money!

I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition isn't just a desperate quest for positions or money. It's just love - lots of love.

As kids we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

In real estate, you make 10% of your money because you're a genius and 90% because you catch a great wave.

Energy efficiency not only saves businesses and consumers money, but it also reduces pollution by cutting energy use.

I believe that Bitcoin holds value as a form of 'good money' that is superior to any previously discovered or developed form of money.

I like money, but it's never been about the money.

People just expect you to show up, be a cartoon character of yourself, take your money and go home. But don't screw up to the point where you're gonna be out of the picture.

What a brutish master sin is, taking the joy from one's life, stealing money and health, giving promise of tomorrow's pleasures, and finally leading one onto the rotten planking that overlies the mouth of the pit.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend.

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

If you want to reap financial blessings, you have to sow financially.

Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

You get a lot of accommodations for being on scholarship, but there is too much money floating around in the NCAA to not be giving it to the people earning it.

It's all about the money.