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Money Quotes


"I did a Broadway show with Alan Alda and how much money can Alan Alda have."



"I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money."


"If you've got an industry where you've got massive investment, it doesn't matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry."


"Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves."


"As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work."


"If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get it."



"They didn't have the money to keep Christopher Lee long enough to play his scenes with me."



"Money will never make you happy and happy will never make you money."



"The law is bigger than money - but only if the law works hard enough."


"Social Security, for example - I'm 43. I've paid into the system. You know what? That money has been stolen from me. I know that my parents who are on Social Security - they've got to continue to receive it. They're dependent on it. It is their primary source of income."


"The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians."


"Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?"


"I realized how quickly you could eat up a lot of time and money if you weren't prepared."


"Money is not our primary aim. Changing the behavior and the practice of the gun industry is."


"I felt like all of the American people did not believe me because of the things that were said about me, and said that people would say that it was just for the money, and it wasn't about the money. It was about what he did to me. And I knew I was telling the truth."


"If we know there is enough money in there for nine or ten months, we won't worry too much. They can come back and get more-not all they want, but a large piece of it. So you always have the supplemental as a safety valve."


"The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell."


"You have to go to where you can make money, and you see in the service area, in the technological area, those are the areas where we're going to create jobs."


"But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well."


"The politicians in Washington are spending trillions of dollars of our money. When are Americans going to stand up and say enough is enough?"


"I'll get to make a lot of money and do some bad sitcoms."


"As to whether the people who were supposedly to put up the money and did put it up or whether it was Arthur's own money is something which I shall never know."


"I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty."


"We are now after 7 months operation making money here."


"I thought I had too much money to be happy and normal. Thousand of pounds is just too much for a working person to handle all of a sudden, and I felt I didn't deserve it."



"In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that."



"If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the Great Depression from occurring?' The answer is they would have paid a lot. They would have borrowed money if it could be used to prevent the Great Depression."


"As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job."


"Let all the learned say what they can, 'Tis ready money makes the man."



"I invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don't like capitalism, you don't like making money with stock, move to Cuba or China."


"It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money."
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