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Money Quotes



"Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest."


"Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes."


"When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society."


"A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles."


"Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money."



"I'm a firm believer in putting your money where your mouth is."


"I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like."


"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 system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives."


"Well, I called him and I said, Mr. Wright, what can I do? Universal offered me a contract $300 a week. He says take it. You'll never get that money from me."



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


"It's actually great to shoot far away from Hollywood because we don't have the distractions of the parties and premieres and all that. And, of course, you can save money - there are no good shoe stores."


"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."



"Our blood will turn from red to blue, although our money is but new."


"Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money."


"Once Playboy came to me, all the preachers ran. I needed to pose in Playboy to make money."


"We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane."


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


"I did the thing with bonds, which was about 30 million dollars, and didn't get none of the money on them."


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



"I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me."



"I mean, price is price. It's just where you want to spend your money."


"God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies."



"I started doing a paper round when I was about 10. I started earning 10 pounds a week and then I was obsessed with earning money until I was about 15."


"There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else."


"Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise?"


"I wrote the Brotherhood song for no money out of my deep feelings about humanity, and because I was flattered that whatever talents I had, had been recognized."


"Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me."


"Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things."


"It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test."
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