695 Quotes Found
"People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'"
"The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still."
"Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work."
"Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra."
"Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising."
"I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, 'Geez, this is ridiculous.' You just see through all that sort of stuff. I never liked those Deep Purples or those sort of things. I always hated it. I always thought it was a poor man's Led Zeppelin."
"The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler."
"Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'"
"Money does not guarantee success."
"I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money."
"What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one."
"I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it."
"To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites."
"Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves."
"I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do."
"Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money."
"What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job."
"But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing."
"Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice."
"One thing I have clear is that I don't want to work for money anymore."
"My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school."
"When it comes to money nobody should give up anything."
"When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry."
"What is there that money will not do?"
"London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in a city."
"Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth."
"The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the 'equal level' very low, so that wealthy districts simply raise extra money privately."
"In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that."
"Photography is more about money now but then so are most things."
"I'm very unstable there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from."
"To avoid ignorance and bullying, I've had to hide the fact that I'm a troll. You have no idea how much time and money I've spent on electrolysis and hair dye and reconstructive surgery so I can look like this."
"I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be."
"Time will take your money, but money won't buy time."
"At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media."
"As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work."
"If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it."
"We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane."
"We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with."
"There is nothing so habit-forming as money."
"I was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do."
"People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition."
"If I had been on 'Bowling for Dollars, ' I'd wind up owing them money."
"Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more."
"Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character."
"Money won is twice as sweet as money earned."
"In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble."
"And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons."
"Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack."
"I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is."
"Big money is ruining the political system."
"Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on."
"I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child."
"The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money."
"It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them."
"Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff."
"Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time."
"The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see."
"Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets."
"I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money."
"I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much."
"But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing."
"I could easily exist on less money, but I like the way I live now."
"I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over."
"I don't come from money."
"I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh."
"You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards."
"Money isn't important, but you have to have enough, so you don't have to think about it. Thinking about money is a drag."
"I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make."
"Money for me today does not really matter."
"If anyone tells you it's impossible to be fabulous and smart and make a ton of money using math, well, they can just get in line behind you - and kiss your math."
"Animals, they are one of the most beautiful gifts we have and, you know, if there are people that have compassion, there are very few people that put their money into animal rescue organizations. And if there is someone that has that passion, animals need all the help they can get."
"There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious."
"I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that."
"You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy."
"Let's be honest, I have enough money to never have to work again."
"If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes."
"You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China."
"Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money."
"When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war."
"Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life."
"If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States."
"If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money."
"People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography."
"If we're going to spend a lot of money to deal with the problem of 200 million guns in the country owned by 65 million gun owners, we ought to have a system which will work and catch criminals."
"Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working."
"The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things."
"I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it."
"Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?"
"Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands."
"I'm not sure about the selling part, but I've always found that the things I've worn on tour have moved over to what people wear every day. Sometimes the things I wore in the beginning before I had money were things I put together."
"I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now you have money."
"There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy."
"We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They want to live meaningful lives."
"I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy."
"Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent."
"Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money."
"People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets."
"Human beings are much bigger than just making money."
"It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way."
"My story is the story of countless millions of children whose families and nations were torn apart for money in the name of Jesus Christ."
"I don't make decisions based on money."
"I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world."
"Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich."
"People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to."
"Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself."
"You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money."
"It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel."
"I remember thinking that I'd way rather give my parents my money, and not have to like have them go to work anymore, you know what I mean. Because I'd way rather spend more time with them."
"I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me, 'I wish I had more money.'"
"Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money."
"That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'."
"There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings."
"I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business."
"I'm not broke. Like everybody else, I owe money."
"Money doesn't buy class."
"Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money."
"I've been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don't need the public's money."
"To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue."
"I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any."
"Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper."
"I know where I'm putting my money."
"You must spend money to make money."
"I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had."
"You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course."
"If the money's right, I'll do a film."
"A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity."
"For industry to settle in a country, you first need electricity for electricity, you need some trained workers for trained workers, you need some schools for schools you need some money for money, you need some industry."
"Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice."
"Things are done according to money these days."
"The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure."
"Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me."
"Money just draws flies."
"Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell."
"Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is."
"Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money."
"I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book."
"For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies."
"The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team."
"I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW."
"I never viewed money as being 'my money' I always saw it as 'the money.' It's a resource. If it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system."
"'Get a Job' is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done."
"For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money."
"And I think the more money you put in people's hands, the more they will spend. And if they don't spend it, they invest it. And investing it is another way of creating jobs. It puts money into mutual funds or other kinds of banks that can go out and make loans, and we need to do that."
"People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world."
"There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful."
"I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about."
"Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially."
"I don't want young people to think they can't make a difference because they don't have money."
"First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money."
"Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision."
"The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it."
"I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy."
"In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems."
"What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money."
"Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet."
"If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case."
"At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist."
"I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that's another story."
"To make the most of your money, I recommend sticking with mutual funds that don't charge a commission when you buy or sell."
"Never, ever invest money that you will need prior to three to five years - minimum."
"If you're not staying on top of your money, you are putting your financial well-being at risk."
"Those carrying a credit card balance should scale back to making the minimum payment each month so they have more money to put into savings."
"Your goal should be to pay off your credit card bills in full at the end of each month and set aside money toward your emergency savings."
"If you wait until your children are high school seniors to spring it on them that there's not a whole lot of money for school, they won't have too many options."
"I always say, 'People first, then money, then things.'"
"They got married, they got divorced, and half their money goes out the window."
"I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved."
"It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy."
"You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity."
"I mean, Dodd-Frank is strangling small community banks. It doesn't make any difference what the interest rate is. They're not - they're not going to loan the money because they can't make any money for one thing plus the cost of compliance."
"As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sweat and toil of one of our citizens."
"If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil."
"False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing."
"Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense."
"I have a lot of money stashed away, but I do live my life from day to day."
"Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones."
"Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things."
"Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky."
"And also there wasn't much money in television in those days anyhow."
"I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?"
"You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I've made lots of money making fun of me."
"I'm so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me - and sometimes for a lot of money too."
"I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby."
"The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses."
"We are used to female writers who use their private lives as unmitigated material being somewhat hormonal this somehow 'excuses' what might be seen as a highly unfeminine ability to turn their personal upsets into money."
"From paying off friends' tax bills to rescuing stray dogs and stuffing £20 notes into the hands of homeless people, I can't get rid of my money fast enough."
"Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance."
"Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor."
"President Obama has outsourced a major portion of the U.S. space program to the Russians. That's national policy. Taxpayer money. So let's stop playing games with this outsourcing distortion and talk about the fact that when we need is a president that knows how to manage big enterprise and create jobs."
"Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing."
"The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover."
"As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget."
"What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!"
"I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding."
"Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration just think how many bombs that would buy!"
"Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies."
"Expensive clothes are a waste of money."
"I don't like begging money from producers."
"When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left."
"Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it."
"The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians."
"The foundation of a financial fresh start actually has nothing to do with money or specific financial dos and don'ts."
"Who would you want to be giving you advice? Somebody who doesn't have any money?"
"The less money you owe, the less income you'll need and the less you'll have to save for tomorrow."
"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier."
"I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead."
"I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force."
"To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep."
"If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you're going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money."
"You got to have a courageous president to stand up and says, listen, if - if you send a bill to me that spends more money than what we've coming in, I'll veto it. I mean, I'm going to try to work with you the best I can, but I'm going to veto it."
"I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful, and they think that because they're making money and people think well of them, they must be doing everything right."
"The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it."
"I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh."
"I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian."
"The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it."
"People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what they do have. You can have all the money and material things you want. If you aren't here to enjoy them, what good do they do?"
"Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs."
"What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief."
"I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more."
"Hollywood is so fake and people need to realize that people are just people, and you, too, don't need to be born into something or have money or have whatever product someone is hawking on you."
"If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets - not to have a fair fight."
"Money is a poor man's credit card."
"Money is just the poor man's credit card."
"The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul."
"Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money."
"That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it."
"I like my money right where I can see it... hanging in my closet."
"You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for."
"A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money."
"I have no idea how much money I've got."
"Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night."
"Money is like hormones. It's just how you feel on any given day."
"I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money."
"I have too much money invested in sweaters."
"Mitt Romney understands free enterprise, he has worked in it. He has seen companies succeed and he has seen them fail, too. He knows what people think about when they invest their money."
"It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions."
"Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son."
"Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network."
"You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros' pocket money. It's fundamentally ridiculous."
"At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now."
"Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit."
"I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work."
"I know a lot of celebrities who are perfectly happy to put their name to something and then leave it at that because the money is good, but I need to have complete control over how something is going to look if my name is going to be attached to it."
"My body can't put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore - my body is just not on the table that way anymore."
"Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle."
"I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days."
"France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper."
"I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money."
"While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position."
"As kids we didn't complain about being poor we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it."
"You have to spend a lot to make a lot. It's not like I'm sitting on top of a pile of money."
"I've got my eye on a few things to spend my money on. I've got my own bank card but I am really good with money. I don't spend too much at all."
"Only the elites despise earning money."
"I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people."
"I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money."
"I don't know what to do with it. I'm very fortunate to have it, and it gives you room to maneuver. But the main thing about having money is it means you don't have to worry about it. And that for me is a lovely thing. It's not for fast cars and hookers."
"It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please."
"Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master."
"People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there."
"Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital."
"I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland."
"I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on."
"The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go."
"We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money."
"One thing that people keep on saying to me is that the wealth and the fame must have made up for missing out on my childhood. But the idea of money - putting a price on your childhood - is ridiculous. You will never get those years back and you can't put a price on them."
"I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled, and thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them."
"Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish."
"My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer less fun and less money."
"Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed."
"Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things."
"And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product."
"Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted."
"France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper."
"A fool and her money are soon courted."
"The key to making money is to stay invested."
"Spare no expense to save money on this one."
"The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy."
"I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money."
"Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy."
"It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs."
"The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets."
"When you hire that first person, then you're a boss. You've got performance reviews. You've got complaints about not making enough money. You've got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids."
"If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time."
"I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas."
"If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us."
"Work isn't to make money you work to justify life."
"There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no."
"They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands."
"And of course I didn't make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the way I made money."
"Life is a game. Money is how we keep score."
"Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course."
"Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes."
"I'm tired of love I'm still more tired of rhyme but money gives me pleasure all the time."
"A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out."
"Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker."
"This is our commitment to users and the people who use our service, is that Facebook's a free service. It's free now. It will always be free. We make money through having advertisements and things like that."
"I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor, ya know?"
"What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed, spent, and wasted."
"We need to stop spending money we don't have."
"That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington."
"If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses."
"I definitely spend the most money on shoes, partly because vintage footwear can be a little funky - in a bad way. I like to keep things pretty simple up top and then go weird with the shoes."
"Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money."
"Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher."
"But all the money in the world cannot make you happy either, so there has to be a balance."
"No woman marries for money they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first."
"My Vegas act is how I make my money."
"Take free money. No matter how in debt you are, if your employer offers a matching contribution on a 401(k) or other retirement vehicle, you must sign up and contribute enough to get the maximum company match each year. Think of it as a bonus."
"The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power."
"Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value."
"In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money, no market, and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened everything in America was being questioned."
"One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs, so do prospects for women."
"I don't care about money."
"Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show."
"We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem."
"Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million."
"Of course, I do everything for money."
"Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories."
"No man's credit is as good as his money."
"All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children."
"Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal."
"If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward."
"The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument."
"Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don't cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That's going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables."
"I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money."
"I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements."
"A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun."
"I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running."
"There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either."
"Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time."
"Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry."
"But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money."
"Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here."
"Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success they are interested in your money."
"Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships the poor man everywhere lies low."
"As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office."
"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust."
"Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves."
"People will always choose more money over more sex."
"Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost."
"I don't want to make money I want to make a difference."
"Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed."
"Well, the chairman of Federal Reserve just made his move to rescue Barack Obama. We're gonna have QE3. We're gonna print some more money."
"I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails."
"I've always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail."
"American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook."
"You can be young without money but you can't be old without it."
"I can't afford to die I'd lose too much money."
"Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites."
"Capitalism is using its money we socialists throw it away."
"What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes."
"You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance."
"Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it."
"Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail."
"It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money."
"I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money."
"If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans."
"A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children."
"As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue."
"Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty."
"I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake."
"If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?"
"No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing."
"If you are worried about job security and do not have an adequate emergency fund (ideally eight months' worth of living expenses stashed away in a federally insured bank or credit union), you need to focus more on saving money than paying down the balance on your credit cards."
"A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart."
"Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces."
"Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go."
"I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test."
"I don't talk about money."
"Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money."
"I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money."
"What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us."
"If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man."
"To understand someone, find out how he spends his money."
"The passion for money is never fickle."
"New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent."
"But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat."
"The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there."
"We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children's life. It may save someone you love. And it's very important."
"Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody."
"I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it."
"I'm not really interested in making money."
"People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly."
"The thing that differentiates man from animals is money."
"Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator."
"I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting."
"The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm."
"Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money."
"The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass."
"Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that's a bonus, and if you don't, you still won't hate going to work."
"My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point."
"Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power."
"I'm hopeless with money I simply spend what I've got."
"He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation."
"Politics isn't about big money or power games it's about the improvement of people's lives."
"Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science."
"Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does."
"Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money."
"If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already."
"Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them."
"The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money."
"When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams."
"If money titles meant anything, I'd play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year, then it's been a good year."
"In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money."
"Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement."
"People first, then money, then things."
"The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people."
"One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys."
"Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric."
"It costs a lot of money to look this cheap."
"The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled."
"Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five."
"Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it."
"Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on."
"When a fellow says, 'It ain't the money but the principle of the thing, ' it's the money."
"Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that."
"One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money."
"Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers."
"It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you."
"The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes."
"The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze."
"I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well."
"I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed."
"If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours."
"We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs."
"There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money."
"No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction."
"Even with my divorce and with everything, I don't need money."
"I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy."
"For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference."
"We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms."
"The want of money is the root of all evil."
"It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly."
"The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions."
"Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets."
"Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it."
"There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise."
"Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it a mistress, if thou knowest not."
"The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical."
"If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are."
"You loan your friend money. You see them again, they don't say nothin' 'bout the money. 'Hi, how ya doin'? How's ya mama doing?' Man, how's my money doin'?"
"A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into."
"I call crony capitalism, where you take money from successful small businesses, spend it in Washington on favored industries, on favored individuals, picking winners and losers in the economy, that's not pro-growth economics. That's not entrepreneurial economics. That's not helping small businesses. That's cronyism, that's corporate welfare."
"Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order."
"Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use."
"You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle."
"You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem."
"Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed."
"We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much."
"The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it."
"There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them."
"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."
"Brigands demand your money or your life women require both."
"He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief."
"Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book."
"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did."
"The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket."
"The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink."
"False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons."
"Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way."
"A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money."
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money."
"Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace."
"To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes."
"Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s."
"You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money."
"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."
"To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it."
"I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it."
"I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame."
"Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea."
"The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain."
"Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money."
"That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'"
"I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money."
"Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money."
"If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work."
"Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money."
"A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends."
"It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test."
"The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none."
"I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors."
"The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning he is poor who though he has millions is covetous."
"Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem."
"Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money."
"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"
"I have ways of making money that you know nothing of."
"Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money."
"Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread."
"The sinews of war are infinite money."
"You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they?"
"We can't go to people who have lost their job at GM and say, 'Oh, by the way, we are going to pay money to build a road here or inoculate children there, ' unless we can demonstrate that it is in America's interest. I happen to think it is."
"People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes."
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money."
"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."
"I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer."
"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
"There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto."
"When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money."
"Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely."
"It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money."
"Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you."
"Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail."
"I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood."
"Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs."
"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money."
"You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset."
"There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else."
"I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money."
"Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?"
"The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money."
"One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success."
"Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it."
"Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased."
"There was one thing my daddy wouldn't tolerate in any shape, form or fashion, and that was being unkind or rude to somebody. That was just very important to my folks. And as it turns out, that was a legacy that he left me that money can't buy, is how to be able to treat people."
"Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used."
"I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have."
"I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues."
"If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals."
"I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts."
"A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about."
"I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful."
"As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?"
"I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, 'What for?' I said, 'I'm going to buy some sugar.'"
"If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity."
"The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated."
"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."
"Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep."
"It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money."
"I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em."
"Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members' paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses."
"I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok."
"You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off."
"Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none."
"I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college."
"In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected."
"I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it."
"I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I."
"Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it."
"When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion."
"A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank."
"Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million."
"You reach a point where you don't work for money."
"President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!"
"Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services."
"I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs."
"Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have."
"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."
"I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money."
"Prospering just doesn't have to do with money."
"Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference."
"I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul."
"Money without brains is always dangerous."
"Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it."
"The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money."
"This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country."
"A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money."
"With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution."
"Money doesn't talk, it swears."
"Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised."
"We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money."
"We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."
"You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me."
"This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum."
"Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation."
"Innovation has nothing to do with how many R amp& D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it."
"Money is usually attracted, not pursued."
"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."
"I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years."
"Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace."
"We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money."
"When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any."
"Lack of money is the root of all evil."
"Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars."
"It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up."
"To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle."
"Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do."
"Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people."
"Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul."
"I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it."
"Ultimately, if you can say that I'm a bad owner and we're winning championships, I can live with that. But if we're not making the playoffs and we're spending and losing money, then I have to look in the mirror and say maybe I'm not taking the necessary steps to doing what it takes to run an organization."
"In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money."
"Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves."
"Money often costs too much."
"The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it."
"Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated."
"Remember that credit is money."
"An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine."
"It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages."
"If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some."
"A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles."
"Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time."
"I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave."
"There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money."
"If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing."
"Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit."
"There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else."
"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."
"I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful."
"A fool and his money are soon elected."
"Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations."
"Never spend your money before you have earned it."
"I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'."
"Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like."
"Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1."
"I can make more generals, but horses cost money."
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom."
"It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth."
"Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money."
"A fool and his money get a lot of publicity."
"Business is other people's money."
"Art for art's sake, money for God's sake."
"I think everything depends on money."
"You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out."
"I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough."
"If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring."
"Sooner or later, we sell out for money."
"I don't spend much money on clothes I never did."
"Fame, I have already. Now I need the money."
"I don't think business news is just for old white men with money."
"Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count."
"In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all."
"All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment."
"Money is a mechanism for control."
"If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet."
"Don't judge me. I made a lot of money."
"Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money."
"It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money."
"I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money."
"If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently."
"A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place."
"What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from."
"It's all about the money."
"It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then."
"Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money."
"It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics."
"An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money."
"If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent."
"All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it."
"Do what you love and the money will follow."
"If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money."
"I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's."
"Marrying into money was not a good thing for me."
"I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers."
"A fool and his money are soon parted."
"A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some."
"Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older."
"Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money."
"If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away."
"If I have enough money to eat I'm good."
"You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living."
"There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody."
"Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it."
"I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is."
"Wealth flows from energy and ideas."
"No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money."
"Men make counterfeit money in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men."
"Money is our madness, our vast collective madness."
"A man with money is no match against a man on a mission."
"Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet."
"Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend, ' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?"
"All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money."
"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money."
"It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves."
"Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not."
"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."
"Money: power at its most liquid."
"Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception."
"A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles."
"Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory."
"If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!"
"I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock."
"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."
"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart."
"We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior."
"We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them."
"I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive."
"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it."
"Money is the barometer of a society's virtue."
"I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money."
"After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts."
"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."
"Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time."
"There are people who have money and people who are rich."
"So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?"
"It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."
"Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver."
"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy."
"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."
"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."
"For I can raise no money by vile means."
"The lack of money is the root of all evil."