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Money Quotes


"All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence."


"Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people."



"I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do."


"Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy!"


"What I see for the band by the end of this year is the Complex live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. I want my guys to be comfortable. I'm certainly not in this for the money, but I'd really like to see my guys make some money off of this stuff."


"A trillion here, a trillion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money."


"People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again."


"There is a lot of things to weigh up when a transfer happens, and money is a big factor."



"Where we're coming down is we currently have $787 billion of stimulus that's been passed. We're certainly focusing on spending that money as quickly and as efficiently and as transparently as we can. We think that's absolutely the right strategy."


"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."


"You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards."


"The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any."


"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."


"The reason that man is seldom satisfied with his salary is that when it increases, he increases his expenses."


"Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on."


"What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!"


"They're still considered Olympic eligibles, so there's never an issue whether they're going to turn pro or not. When they get to that level, money is never an issue. They make so much money now."


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


"You know, I respect what Howard Dean has been able to do. It's good for our party. But I've got to tell you this: If money alone decided presidential nominations, Phil Gramm would have been nominated in '96."


"What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance."


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


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


"I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money."



"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."



"I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them."


"A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man."


"With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power."


"They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money."



"The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur."


"In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no money and playing lots of shows."



"It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics."
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