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Money Quotes


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


"The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money."


"I'm under stress. They killed me on wikipedia. They killed me. And I didn't stay dead long enough to sell no DVDs. I didn't even stay dead long enough - I was too stupid. I should've stayed low. I should've laid low. I could've been gone for a year; I'd have made money. And then I'd have risen from the dead."


"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."


"It's a little weird exchanging pictures for money. You know what I mean. It makes me a little uncomfortable."


"Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around."


"You might make a lot of money, but it's very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you can reinvent yourself, the better - and unfortunately TV is designed not to let you redesign yourself."


"A woman's best protection is a little money of her own."


"Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position."


"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."


"Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated."


"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."


"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."


"When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude."


"Once Playboy came to me, all the preachers ran. I needed to pose in Playboy to make money."


"We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane."


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


"Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn."


"The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on."


"Another is, if you take money out of your left pocket and put it in your right pocket, you're no richer."


"I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it."


"Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money."


"At first, we couldn't be establishment, because we didn't have any money. We were guerrilla marketers, and we still are, a little bit. But, as we became No. 1 in our industry, we've had to modify our culture and become a bit more planned."
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