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Money Quotes


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


"It is my belief that tax credits only go to people who are making money, and they generally keep it."


"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money."


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


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


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


"If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently."



"Time and again we have learned that the best way to achieve growth and create jobs is for hardworking people to keep more of their own money in their own pockets."


"We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down."


"He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation."


"Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money."


"The Anti-Slavery public have generously responded to our appeal, and sent the means to enable us to fit them out well, to pay their passages, supply them with many useful articles and give the Missionaries money to sustain themselves for a while."


"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."


"I think they got caught up in how much money they could get from each of the city governments as far as tax rebates. But that stuff works when you make money. It's a little bit phantom money."


"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."


"The liberal groups spent months raising money so they could take down anyone President Bush nominated. But they have not been able to touch judge Roberts."


"Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas."


"I must confess I took a couple or three jobs just for the money."


"The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money."


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


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


"It's a little weird exchanging pictures for money. You know what I mean. It makes me a little uncomfortable."


"If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States."



"Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not."


"I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that."


"It's the same with the ballplayers. Babe Ruth spent a lot, too and the ballplayers make a lot more money now."


"Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off."


"I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill."


"Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands."


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


"Barack Obama has raised tons of money. That is what he means by being green."
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