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It is a transition, from modelling to singing, but for me it's a natural progression. The modelling was something I did to travel the world and make some money and end up doing what I want to do. It was a way for me to go gather the experience to write an album and now sing about it.

It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.

It is easier to talk about money -- and much easier to talk about sex -- than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it; people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it; and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

It is 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 you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.

It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.

It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow field, just as well as under a pile of money.

It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence.

It is no secret that those of us in the Northwest believe the Administration's proposal to drive up the cost of electricity in our region is not only misguided, but also will not achieve the intended goal of raising money for the treasury.

It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.

It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

It is very similar to companies like Google and other internet companies. When you go and search on Google you don't pay for that. But sometimes you click on an advert and Google makes money on that.

It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.

It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.

It is very funny about money. The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. All animals have the same emotions and the same ways as men. Anybody who has lots of animals around knows that. But the thing no animal can do is count, and the thing no animal can know is money.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

I truly love the game; I wouldn't be playing if I didn't love the game. I'm not getting paid astronomical dollars; it's truly for the love of the game of basketball.

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money.

It's all about the money.

It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

It's easier to get rich than it is to explain not getting rich.

It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.

It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.

It's easy to grin when your ship comes in and you've got the stock market beat. But the man worthwhile is the man who can smile when his shorts are too tight in the seat.

It seems like only yesterday that savers were dorks. They kept piggy banks. They drove last year's cars. They fished in their change purses for nickels while the superstars flashed credit cards. Today, values have changed. The new object of veneration is not money on the hoof but money in the bank - and the dorks all have it.

It seems that it is only in the United States that an almost masochistic attack on the position of its own oil companies exists.

It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.

It's easy to clean up when you got money.

It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy