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Money Quotes


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



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


"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?"


"Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that."


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


"The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur."


"Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues."


"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."


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


"It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics."



"Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum of money in the county for intoxicating liquor creates lawlessness, makes criminals, wrecks homes and brings trouble to innocent women and children."


"Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn."


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


"Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it."


"That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'."


"The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money."


"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."


"You might make a lot of money, but it's very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you can reinvent yourself, the better - and unfortunately TV is designed not to let you redesign yourself."


"If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time."


"You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out."


"I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary."


"I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job."


"I started on a very high note and I was alwasy able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my last breath. And to do that, you have to have money."


"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."


"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy."


"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."


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