Top 100 Quotes About A Dollar
#1. 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
#2. If I had a dollar for every million-dollar idea I've had, I'd be rich.
Greg Meyer
#3. Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.
Ivy Baker Priest
#4. If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.
Ernestine Rose
#5. To ask a country with 750 million people living on less than a dollar a day to optimize their development for the environment as opposed to getting food in the mouths of these people and giving them a decent lifestyle, that's just a little bit too much to ask.
Thomas P.M. Barnett
#6. 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
#7. I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.
John Grisham
#8. Greetings, friends. Do you wish to look as happy as me? Well, you've got the power inside you right now. So use it and send one dollar to Happy Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. Don't delay. Eternal happiness is just a dollar away.
Homer
#9. If you think about it, for any kind of content on the web, the natural price per unit of these things should be under a dollar.
Scott McCloud
#11. It is easy to make a dollar but it is hard to make a difference.
Kevin Kelly
#12. If we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus out of season.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. They tax when you earn a dollar, they tax you when you save it, they tax you when you invest it. If you earn a dividend, they tax it again, and if you're stupid enough to die, they steal up to half.
Grover Norquist
#17. You could buy my book in a paperback edition for a dollar, and in hard covers for $3.50. And for fifty cents extra, I come around to your house personally and wet your finger while you're turning the pages.
Bob Hope
#18. Right now we're both yard sales of emotions. A penny for pain. A dime for bitterness. A quarter for grief. A dollar for silence. It binds us together, but I don't want him to pay the price for the parts of me that are used and broken.
Courtney C. Stevens
#19. 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
#20. Just as it's important to take the changing value of a dollar into account when comparing spending over time, it's important to take doctors' changing diagnoses into account when looking at disease trends
Charles Seife
#21. Under our plan you can build wealth, even if you don't have a dollar to spare.
Dick Cheney
#22. 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
#23. I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.
George Carlin
#24. One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.
Edward Abbey
#25. You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.
Mary Stewart
#26. If I had a dollar for every time I said that, I'd be making money in a very weird way.
Mitch Hedberg
#27. Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar.
Channing Pollock
#28. Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public.
P.T. Barnum
#29. Wish I could, through my own financial prestidigitation, transform a dollar bill into two, or two million. It is an awesome and mysterious skill.
Michael Ian Black
#30. I choose goodness ... I will go without a dollar before I take a dishonest one. I will be overlooked before I will boast. I will confess before I will accuse. I choose goodness.
Max Lucado
#31. A dollar put into a book and a book mastered might change the whole course of a boy's life. It might easily be the beginning of the development of leadership that would carry the boy far in service to his fellow men.
Henry Ford
#32. You cannot chase a dollar and an ideal at the same time.
Austin O'Malley
#33. Every time Wal-Mart spends one dollar foolishly, it comes right out of our customers' pockets. Every time we save them a dollar, that puts us one more step ahead of the competition - which is where we always plan to be.
Sam Walton
#34. A dollar is not worth as much as you think it is. Your honesty is worth much more.
T. Boone Pickens
#35. I have on many occasions spoken my mind from stage. I have offered organizations table space by the merch booth. I have donated a dollar-a-ticket, or the entire guarantee, to different causes. I have registered voters. I have played on behalf of political candidates.
Conor Oberst
#36. There are 1.3 billion human beings in the world who subsist on less than a dollar a day and have yet to make their first phone call, let alone send an email. Is
Francis Wheen
#37. I believe knowledge ought to be gained without a dollar amount added to it.
Lauren Lola
#38. I am so blessed that all I've done in my professional life, since I was 17-18, is play music and somehow make a dollar here and there.
Ian McLagan
#39. As an improviser, I always find it jarring when I meet someone in real life whose first answer is no. "No, we can't do that." "No, that's not in the budget." "No, I will not hold your hand for a dollar." What kind of way is that to live?
Tina Fey
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. I used to make my grandparents pay a dollar to watch me sing 'Grease' songs and 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' in their living room. I was always an entertainer, and I would always do all that stuff, but it slowly evolved into a career, which is great, but it wasn't a plan.
Zoe Kravitz
#43. If the exchange rate is a matter of pride, Japan should be only half as proud as India (120 yen to a dollar) and China ten times more (6.2 yuan to a dollar)! My
P. Chidambaram
#44. The market always, in theory at least, looks ahead. And it's always trying to take in every bit of information that it can as quickly as it can. You don't really care so much if the company made a dollar last year; you want to know what it's going to make this year.
Alex Berenson
#45. 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
#46. It's best to start the discipline of generosity when the amounts are small. It's easy to give ten cents out of a dollar; it's a little harder to give a hundred thousand out of a million.
Jim Rohn
#47. Money always changes the game, when you let a dollar come between you and your friends, your cohorts.
Anthony Mackie
#48. LOOK AT MEEE LOOK I own all the bananas now. Give me a dollar. Fuck you. Help me.
Allie Brosh
#49. I was alarmed at my doctor's report: He said I was sound as a dollar.
Ronald Reagan
#50. Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.
Oliver Goldsmith
#51. 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
#52. They say kids today don't know the value of a dollar. They certainly do know the value of a dollar. That's why they ask for five.
Robert Orben
#53. That'll be a dollar for the drinks," he said, "and five pence because the raven that wasn't here messed in the pickles.
Terry Pratchett
#54. Experience has proved to us that a dollar of silver disappears for every dollar of paper emitted.
Thomas Jefferson
#55. I've tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
Casey Stengel
#56. If I got a dollar every time someone told me to name my future kid 'Batmo' I'd almost have enough to pay for therapy for a kid named Batmo.
Jessica Biel
#57. What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said.
Klaus Kinski
#58. I'm not a gambling-man. I have never bet a dollar in all my life.
John Forsythe
#59. About eighty thousand people were killed in Hiroshima and more than two thirds of the buildings were destroyed because 0.7 gram of uranium-235 was turned into pure energy. A dollar bill weighs more than that.
Eric Schlosser
#60. They are among the three hundred million Africans who earn less than a dollar a day, and who are often pushed out of the way or killed for such things as oil, water, metal ore, and diamonds.
Daoud Hari
#61. 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
#62. See them demons and them omens staring at you, mind control, they want your soul. If he don't see a dollar, somebody visiting Satan
Jay Rock
#63. Presidents and prime ministers, whether they live in the rich or the poor world, are insulated and isolated from the devastating impact of global poverty. They read the statistics, but they rarely witness at first hand the misery and degradation of life on a dollar a day.
Jonathan Dimbleby
#64. Vaccines are the most cost-effective health care interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a life, but greatly reduces spending on future healthcare.
Ezekiel Emanuel
#65. I once asked my father for a dollar for the school picnic. He told me how he once killed a grizzly bear with his loose-leaf notebook.
Bill Cosby
#66. I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?
Nas
#67. The pain of losing a dollar is far more powerful than the pleasure of winning a dollar.
L. Jon Wertheim
#68. Look, you lost a tooth. Congratulations. Enjoy looking like a hillbilly. Here's a dollar,
Jim Gaffigan
#69. The first Tuesday of November, every year it is the same Every Aussie heart is beating with the excitement of the game For they bet on dream or fancy or the forms they've followed up From a dollar up to thousands on the famous Melbourne Cup
Slim Dusty
#70. A penny for my thoughts oh no i'll sell em for a dollar their worth so much more after im a goner and then maybe you'll hear the words ive been singing funny when your dead how people start listening
The Band Perry
#71. You don't get older during the time spent in church, he told us.
He pushed a shopping cart with a few rags and a bottle of Windex in it.
We gave him a dollar.
Joy Williams
#72. I made a dollar a day sweeping a laundry out. Then we made a record that was number two in Los Angeles. We got so excited hearing it on the radio that Carl threw up.
Dennis Wilson
#73. Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?
Steven Spielberg
#74. Every dollar that the boss did not work for, one of us worked for a dollar and didn't get it.
William C. Dudley
#75. 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 paid sometime.
Karl Rove
#76. Getting toxic lead out of gasoline, the oil industry shouted, would cost a dollar a gallon. It turned out to cost just a penny a gallon to protect hundreds of thousands of kids from lead-induced brain damage.
Frances Beinecke
#77. God may not give that instant dollar bill your seeking, but it's in the little change He brings, that will add to a dollar.
Anthony Liccione
#78. Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So it is with people who sometimes cover the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and so quench transcendent glories with a little shining dust.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#79. 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
#80. Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help.
Gordon Sinclair
#81. If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar.
Lucy Stone
#82. If I had a dollar for every time I heard the age excuse; that would probably be my shortcut to wealth.
James Jean-Pierre
#83. What's cheaper than a gallon of gas? An ebook. Save a dollar, stay home and read!
Shandy L. Kurth
#84. There's a lot of things that you can do where you don't have to have a lot of money. Going to the drive-in, which cost a dollar, and we would make food to take with us to the drive-in. That was a big thrill.
Georgia Holt
#85. I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
George Carlin
#86. Practically and commercially speaking, a dollar is not necessarily a specific thing, made of silver, or gold, or any other single metal, or substance. It is only such a quantum of market value as exists in a given piece of silver or gold.
Lysander Spooner
#87. If I make a dollar and out of every dollar I'm taxed at 50, half, at 50 cents, I have to give, isn't that like enough?
Jon Lovitz
#88. I recognize that Republicans see a moral difference between a dollar taken away from a millionaire in government benefits and a dollar taken away from a millionaire in taxes.
Timothy Noah
#89. Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed - chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.
John Muir
#90. I absolutely believed when I was young because the Tooth Fairy was always good to me. The Tooth Fairy generally left me a dollar or two dollars and, as a kid, that was a lot of money.
Dwayne Johnson
#91. The mill owner's wife persist. 'A dollar, my foot! Fifty cents. That's my last offer. Goodness, woman, you can get another one.' In answer, my friend gently reflects: 'I doubt it. There's never two of anything.
Truman Capote
#92. Nobody is going to feel sorry for me if I've lost a dollar or $100m.
Lance Armstrong
#93. I'm tryin to make a dollar out of fifteen cents
It's hard to be legit and still pay tha rent
Tupac Shakur
#95. I tell you what. Pick it up, open it anywhere, and read three pages. If you can put it down again, I'll pay you a dollar.
Diana Gabaldon
#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. To me, every plaque, no matter what words are inscribed on it, says the same magic informative thing: Something happened! The gum cost a dollar, but the story was free.
Sarah Vowell
#98. If you got a dollar, soak it away, put it in a savings bank, bury it, do anything but spend it. Spending when we didn't have it put us where we are today. Saving when we've got it will get us back to where we was before we went cuckoo.
Will Rogers
#99. Definitely that kind of owner, he thought. Self-made man proud of his handiwork. Confuses bluffness and honesty with merely being rude. I wouldn't mind betting a dollar that he thinks he can tell a man's character by testing the firmness of his handshake and looking deeply into his eyes.
Terry Pratchett
#100. A dismal omen: ... this morning a woman handed me a dollar bill that was translucent from age, as soft and warm as living tissue.
Kathleen Maher
