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Money Quotes


"I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money."


"Happy is harder than money. Anybody who thinks money will make you happy hasn't got money."


"It is essential that there should not only be a limit on campaign spending but it should be required to say where that money is spent and how it is spent. I think there has been more abuse in campaign spending, actually, than in campaign contributors."


"We've not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can't trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I'm much more conservative with money than George Bush is."


"Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed."


"If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money into fishing fleets that are going to exacerbate the problem by over-fishing is not the way to preserve the underlying asset."


"When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover."


"I've been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldn't pay for the dental work he needed."


"I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money."


"I always feel like there is some dude out there with money that I could fall back on if I needed to."


"It's really not about the money. It's just about educating yourself."


"If you can get some of the devil's money to use for the Lord's work, if you have to borrow it, it is all right and carry on the work."


"I can walk through the front door of any factory and out the back and tell you if it's making money or not. I can just tell by the way it's being run and by the spirit of the workers."


"I'm not doing this to be a pop star. I've had plenty of money and attention. I'm doing it for credibility."


"It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending."


"The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go."


"Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance."


"Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money."


"I am particularly disturbed that our country is the largest financial supporter of an organization that not only wastes a lot of our money but also seems to be increasingly anti-American in its policies and conduct."


"This could be done in part, because the equipment was very inexpensive. Not much money was involved in tooling so that basic changes of that type could be accomplished."



"I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money."


"Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives."


"We should begin to remind people they are always after your money and if you are on something around average earnings you really don't have that spare capacity to pay for all these follies that Labour keep spending their money on."



"Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum of money in the county for intoxicating liquor creates lawlessness, makes criminals, wrecks homes and brings trouble to innocent women and children."



"As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget."


"Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat."


"They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money."


"Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone."


"Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem."


"We're basically after Joe's beer money, and Joe likes his beer, so you better make sure that what you give him is at least as pleasurable to him as having his six-pack of beer would be."



"Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being."
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