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Money Quotes


"Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated."


"Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?"


"We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in."


"Acting was something that just came along. But I made good money, so it wasn't something I was just going to put aside and pretend it didn't exist."


"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."


"A woman's best protection is a little money of her own."


"I have enjoyed the personal use of money; but I have gotten the greatest satisfaction from using it to advance my beliefs in human relations, human values."


"We were using the record as a tool to invest money into real estate all through the South, because we were living in an era where the South was changing."


"People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography."


"No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money."



"The greatest power is not money power, but political power."


"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."


"I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money."


"Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money."


"Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money."


"You can be young without money but you can't be old without it."


"It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please."


"I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising."


"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."


"Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us."


"I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do."


"Don't try to start a career in LA, unless money is all you're interested in."


"I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it."


"The Pentagon can't even audit its own books. It doesn't even know where its money is going. And we refuse to have the tough forces go on the Pentagon so that at least they are efficient with the money they're spending."


"I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer."


"Prestige is the shadow of money and power."


"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."
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