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Money Quotes


"If you have a lot of short-term debt, it means that all of that money can be demanded in a very short period of time. Technically, short-term debt means money that's coming due within a year. Typically, it means money that's coming due within 30 to 90 days."


"To some extent I could identify with that because I kind of just made my money and got out."


"The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about."


"I've never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I've never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this."


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


"I never have to this day, because my money is the money I earn."


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


"The most important thing however is the money. What use would it be to us, to have a a mighty stadium but a useless team, because we couldn't afford anything better?"


"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."


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


"Not only should we be giving Amtrak the money it needs to continue to provide services; we should be providing security money to upgrade their tracks and improve safety and security measures in the entire rail system."


"Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasn't really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didn't have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous."


"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."


"And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer."


"But I can tell you that the issue, on one side, boils down to money - a lot of money. And it boils down to people and their connections with this money, and that's the portion that, even with this book, has not been mentioned to this day."


"I have ways of making money that you know nothing of."


"People didn't stop spending money, they just spent it on things that complement their PCs."


"I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche."


"What I see for the band by the end of this year is the Complex live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. I want my guys to be comfortable. I'm certainly not in this for the money, but I'd really like to see my guys make some money off of this stuff."


"I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too."


"I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works."


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


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



"It is not worth having a burden about money. One breathes a sigh of relief when he deposits money in the bank but becomes unhappy when the money is gone. There is nothing in this world worth being relieved about because it is all temporary."


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


"A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place."


"And what is needed to prevent them from joining gangs was ample recreation for boys as well as girls, jobs and internships for training and money, and assistance to allow their families to live in decent homes."


"There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else."


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


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