Dollar For Dollar Quotes

#1. If you are born into a family below the national median income, we provide you with an additional $500, and for every contribution made to a child's account below the national median income, we match it dollar for dollar - the federal government will.

Harold Ford Jr.

#2. Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book

Ryan Holiday

#3. Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.

Upton Sinclair

#4. When we sell a kilo of bean coffee in Uganda, we get one dollar per kilo. The same kilo, when it is processed [and sold in Britain], goes for $10, $11 or even more a kilo. That is the same situation [price disparity] that goes for all raw materials.

Yoweri Museveni

#5. I'd be a billionaire if I could get a dollar for all the bullsh*t that I hear a day.

Big Sean

#6. Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.

Walt Disney

#7. Myth: USDollar is money. Fact: Gold & Silver are money. USDollar is legal tender/debt brought down to low parcels for spending purposes.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#8. I was sick of pretending, sick of selling my feelings for a dollar a day.

Anne Moody

#9. If the prosperity of megachurches was parallel to the prosperity of the people in the community they were in, there would be less to judge them for. But what is the point of a million-dollar mansion surrounded by shacks? What is the point of a billionaire whose closest friends are destitute? Far

Luvvie Ajayi

#10. There are only four things in life that matter. The first is happiness and I'll sell you the other three for a dollar.

Sam Walton

#11. The government should not pick up every single bit of healthcare to where literally 60 percent of every dollar is just in your last 60 days of life. We should be more balanced than that and give people a chance to understand what the government should and should not pay for.

Pete Sessions

#12. Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.

Lilly Ledbetter

#13. I heard Russell Simmons say that, 'people have million dollar dreams with a minimum wage work ethic.' Basically, everybody wanna be rich but don't nobody wanna work for it.

Yo Gotti

#14. Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

Sam Ewing

#15. Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer.

Kurt Vonnegut

#16. The big budget films have money to do things that are not necessarily essential but sure are comforting. The catering is usually much better. And you have way more of anything you could possibly need. You definitely get a trailer. My shirt and suit for 'Million Dollar Baby' were tailor made.

Mike Colter

#17. Everyday I awake with good health, I credit my bank account with a billion dollar, 'hidden deposit'. Conceptually, the minimum I would pay for it.

Garry Fitchett

#18. Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

Jesse Ventura

#19. As for my state of Mississippi, our governor, Phil Bryant, said the state could not afford the matching funds required to trigger the federal match for Medicaid expansion. We won't do it even though in 2014, the federal government would pay over $50 for every one dollar Mississippi chips in.

Ronnie Musgrove

#20. No false promises are made that if you read these pages, you will learn the formula for writing a million-dollar screenplay; in fact, the dirty little secret of screenwriting books is that anyone who promises such formulas is lying. There

Peter Hanson

#21. For every dollar you spend on food, 19 cents goes to the actual food, while the other 81 cents goes to marketing and packaging.

Cary McNeal

#22. When my parents were paying for my sport, it wasn't just me out on the ice. Pretty much every dollar my mom made teaching went into my skating.

Ashley Wagner

#23. For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart.

Amanda Hocking

#24. The fact that women are paid 73 cents on the dollar for work equivalent to work being done by men is unacceptable in America.

John Edwards

#25. Today, if you pay a[n US] dollar for a pound of apples in the supermarketm only about six cents covers the farmwork used to get it there; ( ... )

Tracie McMillan

#26. There's been such a sense that there's one set of rules for trillion-dollar financial institutions and a different set for all the rest of us. It's so pervasive that it's not even hidden.

Elizabeth Warren

#27. Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that's why we should change it. I didn't say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.

Yann Martel

#28. If I had a dollar for every time I smiled secretly having you in my mind I think my bank account would show up millions.

Melville Elijah Stone

#29. It's very, very hard to be generous and compassionate if you haven't got a dollar in you back pocket to pay for it, to actually pay for those services that people need.

Denis Napthine

#30. They will wake up one morning and realize their civilization has been pulled out from under them, inch by inch, dollar by dollar, just as ours was. They will know what it is to have been asleep for the most important century of their history.

G. Willow Wilson

#31. Fashion is not art. Fashion isnt even culture. Fashion is advertising, and advertising is money. And for every dollar you earn, someone has to pay.

Gia Carangi

#32. For every dollar that is spent on the (boondoggle) bridge a dollar will be taken away from taxpayers. If the bridge costs $1,000,000 the taxpayers will lose $1,000, 000. They will have that much taken away from them which they would otherwise have spent on the things they needed most.

Henry Hazlitt

#33. I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.

Guy Fieri

#34. Kingsley Lake, or "Silver Dollar Lake," is almost a perfect circle, spanning nearly two thousand acres with a surprising depth of ninety feet. The reason for the popular lake's unique shape and depth? It is one of Florida's many sinkholes.

Cary McNeal

#35. Hillary [Clinton] had started running a million-dollar ad campaign trying to define [Donald] Trump as temperamentally unfit for the office and intellectually unfit. No experience. It's dangerous to let Trump anywhere near the nuclear codes and the push button and so forth.

Rush Limbaugh

#36. I am indebted to the press of the United States for almost every dollar which I possess ...

P.T. Barnum

#37. We're the only dance in town. We don't compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar.

Hayden Fry

#38. They shop at Dollar Tree because they don't want to get dressed up for Walmart.

Lisa Kleypas

#39. The Space Shuttle is the most effective device known to man for destroying dollar bills.

Dana Rohrabacher

#40. Women spend 80 cents of every dollar in the marketplace. We could be the most powerful force for economic and environmental change in the 21st century if we focused our money where it could make the biggest difference. If a million people did that, it would have a $1 billion impact.

Diane MacEachern

#41. Commercial to the core, Elvis was the kind of singer dear to the heart of the music business. For him to sing a song was to sell asong. His G clef was a dollar sign.

Albert Goldman

#42. They went through Crescent City, a tired-looking town, where you could get a beer for a dollar and maybe get a fractured skull for nothing.

Richard Preston

#43. Our reward for Starsky and Hutch was getting to write The Six Million Dollar Man for Todd.

Thomas Lennon

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

Phil Donahue

#45. The man said, "The toy cars are a dollar a piece". The boy thought about that a moment and asked, "How much for the whole thing?

Neil Leckman

#46. The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now.

David R. Brower

#47. All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.

Gary Johnson

#48. I had a severe case of resting bitch face. If I had a dollar for every time some random person told me to smile, I would have more money than the Queen of England.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#49. Some girls barely speak, but always askin' for a dollar.

Big L

#50. I did a movie called 'Clueless' when I was first starting out. And with that paycheck, I went and bought a car, which I had no use for, because I lived in New York City, where you can take a train for a dollar anywhere. But instead, I bought a $20,000 car with a $12,000 check.

Donald Faison

#51. You know, for every dollar a man makes a woman makes 63 cents. Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents. So, with that kind of luck, it'll be the year 3,888 before we make a buck.

Laurie Anderson

#52. Germans Francis Grund, and Francis Lieber, and the Pole Adam G. de Gurowski all wrote about the striking social equality they found in America, the absence of differences in status. They all noted the American obsession with work and the restless quest for the "almighty dollar."18

Alexis De Tocqueville

#53. Playing golf is not hot work. Cutting sugar cane for a dollar a day - that's hot work. Hotter than my first wrist watch.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

#54. Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night.

Mary Lou Williams

#55. The easiest way to buy silver was to take a paper dollar to the bank and ask for change. So much coinage was disappearing from circulation that the government was forced to remove silver from U.S. coinage beginning in 1965.

Michael Maloney

#56. We have allowed a situation to develop in which it is legal for a multibillion dollar industry to own, wholly and in perpetuity, the intimate and personal details of children.

Beeban Kidron

#57. We must go beyond organic, as it is currently defined in the National Organic Standards, and strive for food that is not only healthful and natural but also local ... Buying locally means farmers get more of the food dollar, we get better nutrition, and less fuel is consumed in transport.

Kathleen Merrigan

#58. And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over.

Ed Rendell

#59. If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.

Steve Martin

#60. If I had a dollar for every million-dollar idea I've had, I'd be rich.

Greg Meyer

#61. We've created a multitrillion-dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets - and have only the rudiments of a system to prepare patients for the near certainty that those tickets will not win. Hope is not a plan, but hope is our plan.

Atul Gawande

#62. A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

Mark Twain

#63. I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.

John Grisham

#64. Did you know that jewelry shop is a Cross Industries property? Gideon Cross has offered a quarter-million dollar reward for information leading to the arrest of the thieves.

Sylvia Day

#65. The more men, generally speaking, will do for a Dollar when they make it, the more that Dollar will do for them when they spend it.

William J.H. Boetcker

#66. This was another subject of criticism. She was being paid, as I recall, during the 1940's, what was then a princely sum, something like a dollar a word. I don't say that for the column, but for articles that she would write and things like that. And she made lots of speeches.

William A. Rusher

#67. If you pay a child a dollar to read a book, as some schools have tried, you not only create an expectation that reading makes you money, you also run the risk of depriving the child for ever of the value of it. Markets are not innocent.

Michael Sandel

#68. My father offered me a dollar for every pound I would lose as a kid. It didn't work. And it doesn't really work in the long run. Who are you competing against? It's you. You need to be doing this for you and only you.

Richard Simmons

#69. If I had a dollar for every time I said that, I'd be making money in a very weird way.

Mitch Hedberg

#70. We spend at least $5 for remedial education right now for every dollar we put in early childhood education. All the studies on early childhood education show this is going to pay for itself.

Tim Kaine

#71. People are pretty simple: they do what they are rewarded for doing. If they get multimillion-dollar bonuses by taking huge risks with other people's money - as they still do - then they will continue to take those huge risks, and not give it another thought.

William D. Cohan

#72. 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

#73. If eating out, order your meal and ask the server to wrap up half of the portion to take home with your for the next day, keeping your portion size in check, and stretching your dollar into two meals.

Cat Cora

#74. I do not sell life insurance. I sell money. I sell dollars for pennies apiece. My dollars cost 3 cents per dollar per year.

Ben Feldman

#75. One night I saw Jerry Lee, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Elvis for a dollar, if you believe that, in an open-air concert. Presley, I got to meet and go into his house and so forth. My wife says I should quit tellin' that story, 'cause they'll know how old I am.

William Sanderson

#76. Substituting the discount rate for the ever increasing chance of death and a dollar for joy, joy today is worth more than joy tomorrow.

S.A. Tawks

#77. McDonald's breakfast for under a dollar is actually more expensive than that. You have to factor in the cost of bypass surgery.

George Carlin

#78. Experience has proved to us that a dollar of silver disappears for every dollar of paper emitted.

Thomas Jefferson

#79. Do you know anything at all that nobody else knows or, for that matter, gives a damn about? If you do, then sit tight, because one of these days you're going to Hollywood as a technical supervisor on a million dollar movie.

S.J Perelman

#80. Everything we make in life, eventually, is sold for a dollar or a penny or given away;

John Hodgman

#81. Why will someone sell you a dollar for 50 cents? Because in the short run, people are irrational on both the optimistic and pessimistic side.

Peter Cundill

#82. Self-help books for women are part of a multibillion-dollar industry, sensitively attuned to our insecurities and our purses.

Harriet Lerner

#83. Republicans get a lot of money from big business, but they are not tied to the union dollar. As a result they have been aggressive advocates of school reform, charter schools and vouchers for private schools.

Juan Williams

#84. You know, I'm not making top dollar, but when you're making top dollar, there are a lot of people waiting for you to fall.

Esai Morales

#85. I like to joke that if I had a dollar for everybody who slapped me on the back and said, 'Hey Jeb, you're all set,' I'd be retired now.

Jeb Bradley

#86. It has long been suspected, but never proved or disproved (and there is a one-million-dollar prize for doing either), that there is a real division between 'hard' and 'easy' problems that reflects the amount of calculating time that needs to be used to solve them.

Anonymous

#87. During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of reduced spending in exchange for a $1 trillion dollar tax increase.

Bob Beauprez

#88. So if you've had a good time tonight, or if you've had a good time any night, for gosh sake's why not drop a dollar in the mail to me?

Lily Tomlin

#89. I'm one-dollar an hour, Willy! I tried seven states and couldn't raise it. A buck an hour! Do you gather my meaning? I'm not bringing home any prizes anymore and you're going to stop waiting for me to bring them home!

Arthur Miller

#90. All we try to do is buy a dollar for 40 cents.

Peter Cundill

#91. The truth is, after Boys Don't Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million Dollar Baby.

Hilary Swank

#92. If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man?

Warren Farrell

#93. If women really earned fifty-nine cents to the dollar for the same work as men, what business could compete effectively by hiring men at any level?

Warren Farrell

#94. There was nothing left for the dollar, nothing except a cold, cruel end.
Until, that is, the bank robbers burst into the back room.

T.R. Whittier

#95. We been in this house forty year," he said. "Bought it back in nineteen and forty-three for four thousand dollar. Bet you never heard of a house that cheap. Now it's worth one hunnert and fifteen thousand. Just the lot we're settin' on. That don't even count the house. They can knock

Sue Grafton

#96. Don't expect to be paid a dollar an hour for your working hours when you then use your leisure hours as though they were not worth five cents a dozen.

Henry Latham Doherty

#97. There's no way I can play for the Yankees, but I know they're going to come after me hard. It's definitely not the most important thing to go out there for the top dollar, which the Yankees are going to offer me. It's not what I need.

Johnny Damon

#98. If I had a dollar for every time I heard the age excuse; that would probably be my shortcut to wealth.

James Jean-Pierre

#99. If I had a dollar for every time I couldn't sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

Aesop Rock

#100. Landing a million-dollar investment for your startup is exhilarating. But as big as that number sounds, it doesn't go far. Many startups just getting off the ground won't have a CFO to monitor finances. It doesn't take much for spending to spiral out of control.

Ryan Holmes