Roger Waters Quotes

Measuring the oil industry in dollars gives you a very warped view. Pick a sound currency such as Swiss francs or gold grams and look at the oil business through that lens.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.

Roughly speaking, when you are dealing with business firms operating in a competitive system, you can assume that they're going to act rationally. Why? Because someone in a firm who buys things at $10 and sells them for $8.00 isn't going to last very long in that firm.

I made a cold calculation that I wasn’t going to waste time on a futile struggle.

If it doesn’t make economic sense, it doesn’t happen

The gold dollar shall be the standard unit of value. For all forms of money issued or coined in the United States, it shall be maintained at a parity with this standard.

From a financial perspective, you have to think about what the film will generate in revenue so you can set a budget against it.

What would the people who sold us goods do with the money? They'd get dollars. What would they do with the dollars? Eat them?!

If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources.

Weighing benefits against costs is the way most people make decisions - and the way most businesses make decisions, if they want to stay in business. Only in government is any benefit, however small, considered to be worth any cost, however large.

Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

There's no financial aspect to stats.

After awhile size means nothing. It gets back to whether you're making 100% rate of return on 10k or 100 million dollars. It doesn't make any difference.

If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this?

Analogue dollars for digital pennies.

[The 1975 Chase Econometrics] showed that for every one dollar spent on Apollo, 14 came back into the U.S. economy.

Sensible people find nothing useless.

Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.

American products are better than the Chinese. We do a better job. We make better products. But because the currency is so low versus the dollar versus other things, and so much lower than it should be, it's very hard to compete for our companies.

Nevertheless, she did not weep, because, for one thing, it would have made her eyes red, and another, it would be of very little use.

We women don't care too much about getting our pictures on money as long as we can get our hands on it.

Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires - if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical?

There was a time when "sound as a dollar" was a description, not a joke.

Some days, doing "the best we can" may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn't perfect on any front-and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.