“I'd like the people teaching my kids to be good enough that they could get a job at the company I work for, making a hundred thousand dollars a year. Why should they work at a school for thirty-five to forty thousand dollars if they could get a job here at a hundred thousand dollars a year?” PeopleIfsShouldYearsEnoughKidsSchoolJobsCompanyFiveTeachingThousandHundredDollarsBe GoodThirtyFortyGood Enough Author:Steve Jobs
“Tax dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not.” LittlesKidsTaxesProjectsResearchDollarsGood ThingsFruitFranceParisPublic GoodTax DollarsFruit Flies Author:Sarah Palin
“Dad was supportive, intelligent, read to me as a kid, left me a trillion dollars. It's hard to complain.” HardKidsLeftDadIntelligentDollarsComplainingSupportive Author:Rick Remender
“I entered high school she[ my mother] said, "Well, you're a teenager now, and comics are for kids, so you shouldn't read them anymore," and I went, "Oh, okay," and I gave away what, of course, would now be thousands of dollars worth of comics to the neighborhood kids.” WellsSaidKidsSchoolMotherCoursesHigh SchoolOkayDollarsTeenagerNeighborhood Author:Trina Robbins
“Kids? It's like living with homeless people. They're cute but they just chase you around all day long going, 'Can I have a dollar? I'm missing a shoe! I need a ride!” PeopleNeedsChildrenLongKidsMissingDollarsShoesCuteHomelessHomeless People Author:Kathleen Madigan
“When I care about something, I care about something. I think I have an obligation as an American to - and as a citizen, as - as a human being, to help others. Smoking is going to kill a billion people this century. I've put six hundred million dollars from my own money into trying to stop the tobacco companies from getting kids to smoke and convincing adults that it's not in their health.” PeopleThinkingTryingHumansHelpingCareKidsMy OwnHuman BeingsCompanyMillionsCenturyCitizensSixHundredAdultsDollarsBillionsHelping OthersObligationSmokeSmokingI CareConvincingMillion DollarsTobacco Author:Michael Bloomberg
“My taxes alone keep eight lawyers busy, and when I finally get my money, its only one-third of what I earn. With the kids in school and my other responsibilities, I get no change back from the first million dollars. The money flows out like water.” FirstsKidsSchoolWaterResponsibilityMillionsTaxesFlowThirdsDollarsBusyEightLawyerMillion Dollars Author:Robert Shaw