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Money Quotes


"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."


"It's all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible."


"I'm not in this for the money because if I was, I would have jumped out after our first album."



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



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


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


"Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid."


"When we're in a peak, we make a ton of money, and as soon as we make a ton of money, we're desperately looking for a way to spend it. And we diversify into areas that, frankly, we don't know how to run very well."



"The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution."


"Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem."



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


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


"The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for 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."


"Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half."



"Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools."


"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."


"When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude."


"We worked for 11 years to get where we are today, and I want to take our work seriously so that later on I'll be able to appreciate the money we've made."


"I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it."


"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."


"The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don't believe that if a corporation pulls all the money out of you or a network pulls their money away or you get fired, you're being censored."


"And if we make the process political, if we start to make it personal, we're actually going to frustrate good public policy, in terms of managing this money."


"I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money."


"There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact."



"I still treat every job as if I might never get hired again as far as the way I save money and live really modestly."
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