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Money Quotes


"A lot of the point mags are going out of business. They dropped the pay tremendously and it's all because of the internet. I used to go out once a month to LA and shoot for one week. I'd make a ton of money then come back to New York and do whatever I wanted."


"Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we might not have been able to in the past."


"That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems."


"If you have a lot of short-term debt, it means that all of that money can be demanded in a very short period of time. Technically, short-term debt means money that's coming due within a year. Typically, it means money that's coming due within 30 to 90 days."


"In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest."



"What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money."


"Every decision that you make you have to be incredible congruent. It doesn't mean that you have to starve. If you need money, you do something that gives you money, that's normal."


"I wasn't raised with money, so I had to get used to having it. I think I've adjusted to it pretty well."



"You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem."


"No, I never thought about my father's money as my money."



"But I can tell you that the issue, on one side, boils down to money - a lot of money. And it boils down to people and their connections with this money, and that's the portion that, even with this book, has not been mentioned to this day."


"And one of the things we did here was we put the maximum amount of money up front in those cities that were at the greater risk, but that doesn't mean that we keep rebuilding the same security over and over again."


"Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?"


"Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it."


"When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any."


"That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money."



"It's not about the money. This is about Terri. It's not about the Schindlers, it's not about the legislators, it's not about me, it's about what Terri Schiavo wanted."


"Money is like hormones. It's just how you feel on any given day."



"Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising."


"Yet I never want to make a movie purely for the money."



"I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money."


"Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money."


"I never turned down a movie because they wouldn't give me enough money."



"When you look at Regis, he really and truly does feel for those people, and I feel like I've done it too. You're giving away somebody else's money so what do you care? It's not your money."


"Every Vacation movie didn't just make the studio money. They each made the studio a lot of money."


"I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money."



"A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people's lives."
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