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Money Quotes


"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."


"Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money."


"We are demonstrating for services for all the people and not just services for money. It's very important that this message goes to the European Parliament today."


"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."


"When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you."


"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."


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


"Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million."


"Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator."


"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."


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


"When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him."


"Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money."


"You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering."



"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."


"My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that."


"I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive."



"If I had all the money I'd spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink."



"Generally speaking, we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense. We know that the whole point is to game the system, to beat the market or at least find someone who will pay you a lot of money, 'cause they're convinced that there is a free lunch."


"I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create and destroy money. And they who control the credit of a nation direct the policy of governments, and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people."


"The President sends us a billion-page paper that shows how he would spend the money if he were spending the money. He doesn't have the authority to spend the money. He doesn't spend $1 of the money."


"If a problem can be solved by writing a check, it's not a problem, it's an expense."


"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"
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