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Money Quotes


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


"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."


"All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in."


"Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship."


"The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack."


"Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany."


"It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a straight face say, we are going to repeal a tax that affects 1 percent of the American people, just 1 percent of the American people."


"If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States."


"Today, it's money. There's no question about that. Unless you endorse a grill that cooks hamburgers and steaks, where else can you make the kind of money that you can make in the ring if you're good?"


"When you meet a stranger, look at his shoes. Keep your money in your shoes."


"There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money."


"I always have awkward relationships with the ladies for whatever reason. I don't know and so here we are. I was able to sort of take all of those terrible, terrible, terrible dates and turn them into a money making venture."



"What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes."


"California has set up regional collection offices around the world, staffed by California employees, specifically for out of state California businesses to collect the money and bring it back to California."


"If you have millions of dollars you are not going to get to continue doing what you want. You are into a world of commitment to that money and all the people that helped you get that money."


"I had some airline stock, but the airlines tanked. I didn't have a lot of money in them, though."



"I like the idea of giving workers control and putting their money into their personal accounts."



"Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves."


"If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it."


"These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or in the last 4 years, and for the war in Iraq, because essentially we are borrowing money to do those things."



"We did a show called The Orphan Train, during the depression, when families didn't have enough money to support their children, they'd put them on the train and hope someone would pick them up who had enough money to support their children."



"While there used to be one or two Pops orchestras, now there are all kinds of European orchestras that suddenly look upon this as a golden wand that can enable them to make money recording this music."


"Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year."


"I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have."



"One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray."


"I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?"


"Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially."



"The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!"


"The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with."


"If we're going to spend a lot of money to deal with the problem of 200 million guns in the country owned by 65 million gun owners, we ought to have a system which will work and catch criminals."



"Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it."



"I've made a lot of people a lot of money, and I've made a lot of people really happy. I've entertained millions and millions of people."
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