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Money Quotes


"Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money."


"It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them."


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


"My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money."


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


"It is no secret that those of us in the Northwest believe the Administration's proposal to drive up the cost of electricity in our region is not only misguided, but also will not achieve the intended goal of raising money for the treasury."


"Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of your money."


"Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend."


"So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone."


"A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader."


"After I got this job at the syndicate, I started sending them money so they could go on trips and do the things they could never afford to do. All the while, I never knew that my mother was socking money away."


"There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful."


"All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence."


"On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from."


"I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it."


"I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do."


"Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time."


"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."


"There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been."


"We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation."


"I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it."



"Money is 'limited' and people's demands are 'unlimited'."


"I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire."


"I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had."



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


"All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in."


"Liberalism does not preclude an organisation of the flow of money in which some channels are used in decision making while others are only good for the payment of debts."



"I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is."


"So I wanted to show what I did with the money. So I got red silk shirts, beautiful hats, wonderful saddles, a great horse, and two gold teeth. So that was the way I did it."


"We were using the record as a tool to invest money into real estate all through the South, because we were living in an era where the South was changing."
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