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Money Quotes



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


"The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy."


"I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I think it's very valid. But when established photographers, people in their forties, copy me and get a lot of money, well, I find that to be very stupid."


"If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you."


"Big media companies have lots of money and content, but they have no way to tap into a good base of users."


"Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools."


"Bob Arum and Don King can do their thing but if I fought for those guys and they put the money up like they are supposed to then I don't have a problem."


"The Tom Strong thing was totally for the money. I plan to get looser after I finish this Maggie saga."


"I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money."


"My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be."


"I think they got caught up in how much money they could get from each of the city governments as far as tax rebates. But that stuff works when you make money. It's a little bit phantom money."


"All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it."


"Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money."


"When you look at what we spend on entertainment, whether it's on CDs, music, DVDs, there is so much money invested in that, people want to know a little more about the stars they're paying to see or hear."


"They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly."


"Money flows into the US, and inflates US assets, and allows the US to have a monstrous trade deficit. That means we are consuming more than we are producing."


"It's OK, I guess, if you really need the money, but luckily, I'm not in that position."


"Well, we had more money and more time the first season than we did at TV 23."


"The liberal groups spent months raising money so they could take down anyone President Bush nominated. But they have not been able to touch judge Roberts."


"Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas."


"A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money."


"No, I'm happy doing this. Five sweaters and a pair of dirty pants, you can make pretty good money."


"I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful."


"I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me."


"The question now is does Obama have any hope of raising money? I don't think he'll raise it out of the New York people, I don't think he's going to raise it out the Hollywood people, so where's the money going to come from for Barack Obama?"


"From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money."
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