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Money Quotes


"Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who is finally left with it has lost."


"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."


"Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation."


"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."


"It's all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible."


"The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make 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."


"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."


"I still treat every job as if I might never get hired again as far as the way I save money and live really modestly."


"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."


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


"Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money."


"On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from."


"I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money."


"You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money."


"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."


"The larger point is this: We've invested over half a billion dollars in New York since this department was stood up. We've given New York more money, by more than double, than any other city in the country."


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


"Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools."


"I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it."


"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."


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


"Money's not important to me. Movie star acknowledgement is not important to me. I don't want to be a big studio actress. I don't want to be in the limelight."
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