Buck Quotes

I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.

I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.

For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies that have to add up to pay for not just the cost of that song, but the investment in the next song.

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.

You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I'm just a young buck out here trying to keep in that same circle with the rest of 'em.

My experience politically has always been that one-word definition of politics: money. Keep your eye on the buck. And that tells you where the American people are going to be.

Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.

I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else.

The Prime Minister is head of team but its not a one woman act.aI've been called all those things. Intellectual, sharp-tongued, all true. But what New Zealander is like is to know that someone is in charge and in the end the buck stops with the Prime Minister.

The buck stops here!

I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.

I hope I don't have to buck the system. But if it requires bucking, I will do it.

No, I was talking to the network and Universal about plans for a third season where Buck would go back to Earth and would focus on stories around the planet and show what it was like 500 years later.

At the state level, we must take a careful look at what went wrong and make sure it never happens again. The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.

Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance.

Clint Eastwood is an extraordinary director because he knows the value of a buck. He knows where it will show on the screen.

Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.

Buck up or stay in the truck.

I was not the most attractive child. I had two really big buck teeth. I was horrendous - long, lanky and gangly.

Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

To me, it's really important to drive change through a team because one person, while the buck has to stop with somebody, the company is just too big for one person.

Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.

My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.