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Money Quotes


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


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


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


"If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't."


"Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture."



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



"Right now we think that rates will stay low, that you'll be able to get a mortgage below seven percent and that's kicked off a refinance boom that's going to put more money in the pockets of consumers."


"Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money."


"There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody."


"There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty."



"If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest."


"I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor."


"I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy."


"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."


"I never thought to ever ask for money. I was so stupid."


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



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


"It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity."


"That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'"


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


"If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you."


"One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements."



"The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household."


"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."



"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."
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