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Money Quotes


"They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me."


"Money is a poor man's credit card."


"Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security."


"Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting."


"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too."


"Well, I called him and I said, Mr. Wright, what can I do? Universal offered me a contract $300 a week. He says take it. You'll never get that money from me."


"We have already significant sums of money in our petroleum fund, a fund created by law that includes all the revenues received from the Timor Sea, and invests in conservative, safe, long-term investment portfolios - right now in US Treasury Bonds."


"I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor."


"If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing."


"In fact, I had a series of offers which would have brought me a lot of money to make films and package TV programs. There were people who said to me, we'll put a million dollars in your bank account tomorrow, which is a hard thing to turn down."


"I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature."


"Look, don't congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, as long as money will last to buy it."


"The last thing you want to do, unless it's a very unusual situation, is to invest money."


"Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity."


"Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it."


"I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake."


"There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else."


"We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen."


"The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there."


"We didn't have money to put out everything we wanted to put out."


"There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful."


"I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche."


"I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half."
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