“About cars: They can list with faithful accuracy each model they acquired through the years, how much they paid for each one, its main faults, and why they traded it in - but they couldn't list as many close friends.” YearsSimpleCarModelsPaidFaultsListsFaithfulAccuracySimple LivingClose FriendsThrough The Years Author:Doris Janzen Longacre
“I don't consider an actor a star if he's paid $20 million and grimaces in front of the camera and has a stunt man stand in for him. They may be fine actors, but they're not role models. The real stars are wearing body armor in 130-degree heat . . . They're getting shot at and they don't have any stunt doubles standing in for them.” IfsMenMayRealBodyActorsStarsRolesMillionsFrontsFineDegreesModelsShotsStandingPaidCamerasHeatRole ModelsArmorGrimace Author:Ben Stein
“One thing my mother always instilled in me is to always know my worth. Don't settle for less. She used to say to me 'Iman, no is a complete sentence, learn to say no. You don't have to explain it you don't have to say anything after it. It's a complete sentence.' So when I came to America 1975, I found out that the black models were being paid less than white models. So the first thing I did was say I'm not going to do the job unless I'm paid the same amount.” KnowsFirstsJobsAmericaUsedMotherFoundBlackWhiteOne ThingAmountModelsPaidSentencesSettlingSay AnythingImanLearn To Say No Author:Iman Abdulmajid
“There are any number of models artists can use to profit off of their talent and artistry. It is not up to the state to protect them from competition. Musicians can obviously get paid for performing and having their music copied and "pirated" helps them in this respect by making them more well known, more popular.” WellsStatesHelpingUseArtistNumbersKnownTalentProtectMusicianModelsPaidCompetitionProfitPerformingWell KnownArtistry Author:Stephan Kinsella
“Berkshire's whole record has been achieved without paying one ounce of attention to the efficient market theory in its hard form. And not one ounce of attention to the descendants of that idea, which came out of academic economics and went into corporate finance and morphed into such obscenities as the capital asset pricing model, which we also paid no attention to. I think you'd have to believe in the tooth fairy to believe that you could easily outperform the market by seven-percentage points per annum just by investing in high volatility stocks.” ThinkingBelieveHas BeensIdeasHardWholeFormAttentionRecordsTheoryModelsEconomicsPaidSevenInvestingTeethFinanceCorporateFairyAssetsAcademicEfficientPercentagesDescendantsObscenityPricingVolatilityTooth FairyEfficient Markets Author:Charlie Munger
“My Big Mama is my No. 1 financial role model. Much of my advice stems from what she taught me. She never made more than $13,000 a year, yet she paid off her home before she retired. She saved money from every paycheck. She taught me to be skeptical. It makes me cry to think that I'm a nationally syndicated personal finance columnist for one of the world's best newspapers and my core advice comes from my black grandmother who was a nurse's aide with just a high school education.” ThinkingWorldYearsMadeHomeBigsSchoolBlackRolesAdviceCryTaughtModelsHigh SchoolPaidFinancialSavedCoreNewspapersFinanceGrandmotherRole ModelsNurseStemRetiredSkepticalMamaPaychecksColumnistsSchool EducationPersonal FinancePaid OffBig Mama Author:Michelle Singletary
“I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.” ShouldParentRolesModelsPaidRole ModelsBeing A Role Model Author:Charles Barkley
“There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don't look like a fashion model.” LooksAttentionFashionModelsPaidSingersPerformingFashion Model Author:Linda Ronstadt