“Ask a man how much a dollar is worth, and he'll tell you, 'Almost nothing.' Try to take a dollar away from him, and you'll get yourself a fight.”
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“They charged me 15 dollars. That's how much it costs to only have 20 dollars.”
On being broke http://youtube.com/watch?v=rpaCQKJpE9k

“For every dollar spent in failure, learn a dollar’s worth of lesson.”
Quoted in article by Eric Ries about lean startup movement. http://venturehacks.com/articles/five-whys-2

“If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.”
Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, page 146.

From a speech (1933)

[2007-04-26, AP Interview: Romney says he's not the only one switching positions, rivals do it too, Liz Sidoti, San Francisco Chronicle, http://web.archive.org/web/20070430053858/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/26/politics/p131443D20.DTL&type=politics, 2007-04-30, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/26/politics/p131443D20.DTL&type=politics]
regarding Osama bin Laden
2007 campaign for Republican nomination for United States President

“Hey, you’re getting to be almost worth how much it costs to feed you.”
“Good thing, ’cause I got no plan to eat less.”
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 3 “Fever” (p. 48).

“If you owe a man a dollar, pay it; if you owe him a grudge, forget it, and always be kind.”
[Powderly, Terence, 'The Path I Trod: The Autobiography of Terence V. Powderly, 1940, Columbia University Press, 9781163178164, https://archive.org/stream/pathitrodautobio00powdrich, 34]