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Money Quotes


"Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band."


"Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master."


"The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income."


"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."


"I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead."


"But the Americans have no extra money. They have their own problems. They can provide financial assistance for two, three, four, or six months at most."


"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."


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


"Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?"


"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."


"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."


"Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money."


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


"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."


"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."


"Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million."


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


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


"The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money."


"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."


"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."
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