“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.” PeopleIfsGivingStillsSimpleRiskHugeDollarsBonus Author:William D. Cohan
“You have driven me from the East to this place, and I have been here two thousand years or more....My friends, if you took me away from this land it would be very hard for me. I wish to die in this land. I wish to be an old man here....I have not wished to give even a part of it to the Great Father. Though he would give me a million dollars or more I would not give to him this land....When people want to slaughter cattle they drive them along until they get them to a corral, and then they slaughter them. So it was with us....My children have been exterminated; my brother has been killed.” PeopleIfsMenWantGivingYearsChildrenHas BeensTwoHardWould BeDiesFatherWishMillionsLandBrotherThousandMy FriendsGive MeDollarsEastDrivenMy ChildrenMy BrotherNativeOld ManNative AmericanThousand YearsMillion DollarsSlaughterCattleGreat FatherWish To Die Author:Standing Bear
“Newt Gingrich says he wants to get rid of Social Security. Who is more qualified to give this country financial advice than a guy who ran up a half-million dollar bill at Tiffany?” WantGivingCountryGuySocialHalfMillionsAdviceSecurityBillsDollarsFinancialRanSocial SecurityQualifiedMillion DollarsNewtsDollar BillsFinancial Advice Author:David Letterman
“Billions of dollars have been lost to the Negro race within the last fifty years through disloyalty on the part of successful Negroes, who have preferred to give away their fortunes to members of other races, than to bequeath them to worthy institutions and movements of their own to help their own people.” PeopleGivingYearsHas BeensHelpingLastsLostRaceSuccessfulMovementMembersInstitutionsDollarsFortuneWorthyBillionsFiftyDisloyalty Book:The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans Source: The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans
“We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not attempt to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.” KnowsGivingIndividualBalancePleaseProveMembersDollarsCharityInjusticeCongressAppropriatePermitActs Of CharityPublic Money Author:Davy Crockett
“I know a fat girl, she wears an orange skirt. You give her twenty dollars and you can do your work.” KnowsGivingGirlCan DoTwentiesDollarsFatsOrangeSkirtsObesityFat Girl Author:LL Cool J
“Let's talk about how to fill out your 1984 tax return. Here's an often overlooked accounting technique that can save you thousands of dollars: For several days before you put it in the mail, carry your tax return around under your armpit. No IRS agent is going to want to spend hours poring over a sweat-stained document. So even if you owe money, you can put in for an enormous refund and the agent will probably give it to you, just to avoid an audit. What does he care? It's not his money.” IfsWantGivingDoeCareHoursReturnTaxesHumorousDollarsTechniqueEnormousAgentsSweatMailDocumentsAccountingOverlookedIrsTax ReturnsArmpitsRefundsDoes He Care Author:Dave Barry
“Honestly, when I had the idea to make 'An Inconvenient Truth,' and I was going out and raising the money, and I said, 'I want to make a movie about Al Gore's slide show, will you give me a million dollars?' People thought I was insane, looked at me cross-eyed.” PeopleWantGivingSaidIdeasShowsMillionsCrossesGive MeDollarsHonestlyInsaneAlsGoing OutSlidesMillion DollarsGoreInconvenientInconvenient Truth Author:Lawrence Bender