Best 5043 quotes in «money quotes» category

It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads.

I used to have a drug problem, but now I have enough money.

I used to think that if I made $50,000 I'd be the happiest guy in the world.

I've always loathed rich people, so I've become who I've loathed, which makes it doubly difficult, if you can follow me.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

I've been a politician and so I'm sometimes cynical about what politicians won't do. When I hear a politician say something that makes no sense whatsoever, I think there's one of two things there: There's money or the promise of money.

I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.

I've got enough money in my life to retire now and do nothing. But I've got a duty and obligation to see if we can create more jobs in this state, and the government's got an obligation to approve projects and to assess them for the benefit of the people of Queensland.

I've known people who had fantastic ideas, but who couldn't get the idea off the ground because they approached everything weakly. They thought that their ideas would somehow take off by themselves, or that just coming up with an idea was enough. Let me tell you something - it's not enough. It will never be enough. You have to put the idea into action. If you don't have the motivation and the enthusiasm, your great idea will simply sit on top of your desk or inside your head and go nowhere.

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'.

I've made an incredible amount of money stealing fans from homeowners.

I've lost tremendous amounts of money in various markets and I think that that's something that makes you better at my job, not worse.

I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.

I've never done work for money, ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.

I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' till I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your restroom is not inside the house.

I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them — which was much higher than what the trader was giving them.

I was in them million dollar meetings, he was cheatin. All up in the church, he was sneakin wit the deacon.

I was fortunate to get a scholarship when I went to Lehigh University and Princeton. They were both wonderful schools. Somebody was kind enough to spend their money to educate people that they would never get to know. That's what I think philanthropy is about.

I was in the show for 21 days once-the 21 greatest days of my life. You know, you never handle your luggage in the show, somebody else carries your bags. It was great. You hit white balls for batting practice, the ballparks are like cathedrals, the hotels all have room service, and the women all have long legs and brains.

I was struck by the absence, even among very young boys and girls, of any interior motivation; they were incapable of thinking, of inventing, of imagining, of choosing, of deciding for themselves; this incapacity was expressed by their conformism; in every domain of life they employed only the abstract measure of money, because they were unable to trust to their own judgment.

I was so poor growing up...if I wasn't a boy...I'd have nothing to play with.

I went to America in the winter of 1872-73, authorised to secure, if I could, the passage of a bill demonetising silver. It was in the interest of those I represented - the governors of the Bank of England - to have it done. By 1873, gold coins were the only form of coin money.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.

Just as a man is fulfilled through working out the intricate details of solving a problem, a woman is fulfilled through talking about the details of her problems.

I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems.

I wondered if sometimes the difference between a psychopath in Broadmoor and a psychopath on Wall Street was the luck of being born into a stable, rich family.

I would become a priest or a rabbi or a monk or whatever the hell was necessary to perform miracles such as taking money from someone else's pocket and putting it into mine, still remaining within the confines of the law.

I wouldn't sell my bike for all the money in the world. Not for a hundred million, trillion, billion dollars!

I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.

I would rather lose money than trust

I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money.

Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us.

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Kazan was an old friend, I met him in 1938. He picked up radio jobs for eating money, so I met him on a couple of radio shows. Later on I was in a play he directed.

Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.

I wonder now if you ever remember... Whether your June is all turned to December... Gone are those winters of chats and of dances... Gone the aroma of life's young romances... Ah! well enough, as you dance on in joyance... Fashion and riches will mask much annoyance.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

Just because one of you earns the paycheck doesn't mean that person should lord over how the money is handled.

Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today because you have written down what it cost yesterday.

Know what you own, and know why you own it.

Lack of money is the root of of all evil.

Lack of money rivets us firmly to the ground, one's wings are clipped.

Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.

Less coin, less care.

Lesson number one: Don't underestimate the other guy's greed.

Let me tell you another place to look for some savings. We are currently spending $10 billion a month in Iraq when they have a $79 billion surplus. It seems to me that if we're going to be strong at home as well as strong abroad, that we have to look at bringing that war to a close.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.