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Money Quotes


"Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it."



"I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?"



"Well, I think the best form would be to put money directly in the pockets of consumers."


"Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money."


"Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth."


"I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful."



"In fact, I had a series of offers which would have brought me a lot of money to make films and package TV programs. There were people who said to me, we'll put a million dollars in your bank account tomorrow, which is a hard thing to turn down."



"There's way easier ways to make money, let's just put it that way."


"Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality."


"I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career."


"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."



"It's difficult when you have to turn down a tremendous amount of money because you don't like what the script is saying and you don't have any money."


"Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul."


"We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back."


"I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books."


"There is a lot of things to weigh up when a transfer happens, and money is a big factor."



"To some extent I could identify with that because I kind of just made my money and got out."


"The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong."


"What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!"


"Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money."


"I'm not driven by money and I'm not driven by career."


"I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money winner's list."


"From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money."


"My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could."



"There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else."


"I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the blues. And I can sing the blues so deep until you can have this room full of money and I can give you the blues."


"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."


"I mean, the way I see it is, every penny I've ever made through music is free money."


"It's almost Armageddon if the Japanese and Chinese don't buy our debt. I don't know where we could get the money. I think we've let ourselves get in a terrible situation and I think we ought to try and get out of it."


"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?"


"We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn."


"A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends."


"By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important."
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