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Money Quotes


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


"Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes."


"You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy."


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


"Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it."


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


"What people forget is that every movie that gets made keeps making money for somebody FOREVER."


"I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money winner's list."


"There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise."


"Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money."


"It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them."


"From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune."


"Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money."


"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."


"They got married, they got divorced, and half their money goes out the window."


"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."



"Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you."


"I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making."


"I wrote the Brotherhood song for no money out of my deep feelings about humanity, and because I was flattered that whatever talents I had, had been recognized."


"Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is make by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected."


"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."


"Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid."


"I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money."


"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."


"Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went."


"He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation."


"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."
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