In the past, when I had more time than I had money, I donated my time to important causes.
"I was 52 at the time, and I had enough money that I was never going to have to work another day in my life, " recalls Kinder.
If I had fresh money in a brand-new account, I would buy Nokia hand over fist.
Until now, I had always seen my salary as how much money I had, not how much I was worth.
Months later when I came back to the school, but they told me I was dropped and cannot return until I had paid back the money I owed.
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But as soon as that was done, I watched the money I had once thought would be a down payment on my own place someday dwindle, owing to the additional expense of health insurance.
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"I had some money put away, waiting for a purpose like this, " recalls Chialee Wong.
For the first time in my life, I had money to spare and was eager to start investing.
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"The first time I took a picture of myself for my first ad was because I had no money for hiring a model, " Von Furstenberg said.
When I was competing, I had no money.
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"I had no money to start traveling again, and Kazakhstan came at a time when they were supporting me and still saw a lot of potential in me, so I took the chance, " Karatantcheva said.
Within a short while, I had made enough money to buy an 8-tonne truck, which I hired out to a construction company.
If I had a lot of money like they did I'd probably be doing pretty much the same thing, indulging in my passion.
And I was hemhorraging what little money I had in the lawsuit.
At that point in my life, I attended a fundraiser for ChildHelp USA. I donated some of the last money I had, and in return, I secured a session where an artist drew a picture of my two children at the time.
It was a debt of honour, so-called, which I had to pay, and I used money which was not my own to do it, in the certainty that I could replace it before there could be any possibility of its being missed.
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The challenge with restitution, the government has argued, would be that it would be too great a burden to hunt down all of the investors because most of them are in the U.K. Had I been an investor who lost money, I would have spoken up a long time ago!
If I had held on, I would now have money to buy them food and toys.
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But if I had to choose I'd put my money on Hamilton to shade the battle.
If I had wired the money for bail instead of sandals, somebody would still be locked up.
Wish now that I had saved my money and not downloaded.
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When I set out to raise venture capital to grow my business, I knew it would be much harder than raising angel money, which I had done to get my business off the ground.
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"They asked me how much money I had, " Zapeta recalled, speaking to CNN in Spanish.
My family had plenty of money when I was growing up, but we never talked about the subject.
Those families I knew that had the money to spare, in most cases spent that money providing their children with everything.
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Without money I had to do the best with what I had.
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Spending more money than I had to spend put me more in debt, just like my silly intuition warned me.
Then he came to me with a tax bill that was more money than I had ever seen in one place.
The desk and our queen size bed were the only furniture that my wife, Nadia, and I had bought with our own money.
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