A Quote by Dean Kamen

I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.

Dean Kamen

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Money Else Lose My Own Own Rather Someone Than

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Dean Kamen
American - Inventor
Born: April 5, 1951

When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to lose.

D. W. Griffith

What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone else's money openly by force? Robbery. What do you call it when a politician takes someone else's money in taxes and gives it to someone who is more likely to vote for him? Social Justice.

Thomas Sowell

I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.

Kristy Swanson

I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's.

Arthur Darvill

What's cooler than pretending you hate money and giving away someone else's stuff under the guise of 'fairness?' You know what's cooler than that? Having the ability to make your own money, your own damn choices and not being subjected to mob theft that steals opportunity right out from under you.

Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

I would rather be my own tyrant than have someone else tyrannize me.

Henry Flagler

People don't own teams to lose money. If you ask any owner whether they would rather make $20 million and come in last place or lose $20 million and win a World Series, there's only one guy who honestly would take that championship: George Steinbrenner. Nobody else.

Bronson Arroyo

Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If the State wishes to spend more it can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more. It is no good thinking that someone else will pay - that 'someone else' is you. There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers' money.

Margaret Thatcher

I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

Vanessa Paradis

But I'd rather help than watch. I'd rather have a heart than a mind. I'd rather expose too much than too little. I'd rather say hello to strangers than be afraid of them. I would rather know all this about myself than have more money than I need. I'd rather have something to love than a way to impress you.

Po Bronson

Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in the end it's all you have. Lose it and you lose yourself and everything else. I should have listened to myself.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I began to become very infatuated at the creation of my own music rather than someone else's and my piano teacher used to get really cross with me because of the fact that I wasn't studying my lessons, I was writing things of my own.

Frank Sinatra Jr.

One of the tragic ironies of history is that such original and creative geniuses as Buddha and Jesus have been extolled as perfect patterns for all to emulate. In the very struggle to be like someone else rather than to be one's own true self, or to do one's own best in one's own environment, a child is in danger of losing the pearl that is really beyond price - the integrity of his (or her) own soul.

Sophia Lyon Fahs

I'd rather take that chance and lose to someone who's the best in the world than beat someone nobody has ever heard of.

Liz Carmouche

Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.