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Money Quotes


"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."


"It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc."


"We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews."


"We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers."


"God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies."


"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."


"I always have awkward relationships with the ladies for whatever reason. I don't know and so here we are. I was able to sort of take all of those terrible, terrible, terrible dates and turn them into a money making venture."


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


"Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that."


"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."


"Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for 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."


"I wrote the Brotherhood song for no money out of my deep feelings about humanity, and because I was flattered that whatever talents I had, had been recognized."


"I like the idea of giving workers control and putting their money into their personal accounts."


"I firmly believe that the best way to stimulate our economy and create jobs is to let hard-working Americans keep more of their money - after all, the money belongs to them, not to Washington."


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


"I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like."


"Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells."


"As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget."


"But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities."


"A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure."


"Tens of billions of dollars could be saved in Medicare and Medicaid alone by eliminate fraud and improving patient care. Not only would this save money, but it will save lives."


"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."


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


"In preparation for it, we need to have folks who are trained, we need facilities, equipment and supplies, that are going to be built into our society, and we are going to spend a lot of money on it."


"Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us."
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