Quotes on Money

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.

Author: Lynn Abbey

Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the kingdom and was ceded to the republic and then to the state when we achieved statehood.

Author: Neil Abercrombie

You're talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year.

Author: Neil Abercrombie

When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset.

Author: Neil Abercrombie

So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff.

Author: Neil Abercrombie

A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden "worthless" land now has an airport on it.

Author: Neil Abercrombie

Success produces success, just as money produces money.

Author: Diane Ackerman

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Author: Lord Acton

It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it.

Author: Don Adams

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Author: Douglas Adams

God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you'll know I've lost all my money.

Author: Ben Affleck

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Author: Louis Agassiz

I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.

Author: Christina Aguilera

But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.

Author: Clay Aiken

It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence.

Author: Clay Aiken

Money is a never-ending problem.

Author: Alvin Ailey

On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich.

Author: Josef Albers

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

Author: Madeleine Albright

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

Author: Louisa Alcott

If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.

Author: Alan Alda

If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.

Author: Lamar Alexander

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.

Author: Sasha Alexander

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Author: Scott Alexander

Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Author: Scott Alexander

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.

Author: William Allan

Saddam Hussein's trial would not be public since he could name countries and persons whom he gave money.

Author: Iyad Allawi

The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving.

Author: Florence Allen

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Author: James Allen

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Author: Marty Allen

If we had loads of money as a family, things would be different and they'd come to visit more and I'd get to spend more time here. But I'm laying down roots in America so when I'm there, just being at home, it's harder to break away from that.

Author: Rick Allen

You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.

Author: Ted Allen

Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.

Author: Ted Allen

These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or in the last 4 years, and for the war in Iraq, because essentially we are borrowing money to do those things.

Author: Tom Allen

I belong to a church and I try to do my Christian duty, so I am against alcohol... But we need the tax money.

Author: Walter Allen

Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

Author: Woody Allen

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Author: Woody Allen

I always feel like there is some dude out there with money that I could fall back on if I needed to.

Author: Kirstie Alley

I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.

Author: Gregg Allman

But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can't make any mistakes so you have to, it's all about where you're sitting at the table.

Author: Al Alvarez

Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people.

Author: Christiane Amanpour

Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.

Author: Stephen Ambrose

There are three easy ways of losing money - racing is the quickest, women the most pleasant, and farming the most certain.

Author: Lord Amherst

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.

Author: Martin Amis

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Author: Martin Amis

A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.

Author: Ian Anderson

Yes, yes, no one denies, for example, that you're going to be able to fix the Murray through the Living Murray process without money, no one denies that.

Author: John Anderson

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

Author: Kevin Anderson

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.

Author: Laurie Anderson

I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.

Author: Louie Anderson

You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job, but it doesn't pay as much. And so, that's what's happened to us is that we have put in so much entitlement into our government, that we really have spoiled our citizenry and said you don't want the jobs that are available.

Author: Sharron Angle

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

Author: Walter Annenberg

I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.

Author: Walter Annenberg

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

Author: Walter Annenberg

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

Author: Jean Anouilh

Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.

Author: Marc Anthony

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

Author: Susan Anthony

You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.

Author: David Antin

He wasn't, but producers are by definition annoying because they have a different agenda from you. They're trying to stop you spending money and you're trying to not spend money, but at the same time we're great artists.

Author: Michael Apted

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

Author: Dario Argento

To try and raise a budget for a film that is strictly for adults and both strong and graphic in content is not easy, especially when there is pressure to spend serious money on good special effects.

Author: Dario Argento

When money comes into play then that's all it's about wanting money, who's making the most who can get the most, me, me me... and in the end it screws up the person and the sport.

Author: Alexis Arguello

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.

Author: Roone Arledge

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

Author: Richard Armour

My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.

Author: Gemma Arterton

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

Author: Chester Arthur

There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.

Author: Mary Ash

Why would people spend good money to have my pants?

Author: Shawn Ashmore

We're kidding on that. One of the things I insisted upon when we went into this project was that we are full partners, going fifty-fifty, both on the money and on the say of what's going on with the books.

Author: Robert Asprin

At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point.

Author: John Astin

I think people enjoy reading about money, but the people who are in charge of giving me guidance tell me not to talk about it in interviews. Why not? That's what everybody thinks about.

Author: Sean Astin

The only thing I like about rich people is their money.

Author: Nancy Astor

Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I'm sure you know, money is all, and if they can get another 26 programs of the same thing even though it advances the culture or those actor's careers not at all it doesn't matter.

Author: Rowan Atkinson

The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.

Author: Norman Augustine

People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.

Author: Norman Augustine

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.

Author: Paul Auster

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

Author: Tracy Austin

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

Author: Roger Babson

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

Author: Sebastian Bach

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Author: Francis Bacon

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.

Author: Kevin Bacon

Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.

Author: Michael Badnarik

An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.

Author: Walter Bagehot

That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.

Author: Gamaliel Bailey

People really do spend a lot of money on their pets - sometimes more then themselves.

Author: Oksana Baiul

We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money.

Author: Fredrik Bajer

Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around.

Author: Mitchell Baker

People didn't stop spending money, they just spent it on things that complement their PCs.

Author: Stephen Baker

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

Author: Ralph Bakshi

I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions.

Author: Bob Balaban

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

Author: James Baldwin

I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I'm just living according to the standards of the world.

Author: Stephen Baldwin

There is actually a fair amount of money being put behind science today.

Author: David Baltimore

Since the pharmaceuticals don't make any money and they control the doctors. If the doctors don't make any money then all hell breaks loose. In communities like LA and New York they are using a lot of the youth for a test sight.

Author: Afrika Bambaataa

It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.

Author: Antonio Banderas

The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money.

Author: Ernie Banks

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.

Author: Amiri Baraka

Money never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy.

Author: Eddie Barclay

Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.

Author: Richard Barnfield

Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Author: P. Barnum

I did a Broadway show with Alan Alda and how much money can Alan Alda have.

Author: Alice Barrett

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

Author: John Barrymore

The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we're beginning to run out of suckers, because there are not that many people overseas who are willing to put up more than half the money for a movie.

Author: Peter Bart

The institutional investor remains the bigger influence on individual trades simply because the institutional investor has more money to support the order and that will have more of an impact on the stock.

Author: Maria Bartiromo

Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That's the worst attitude you can have.

Author: Maria Bartiromo

I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.

Author: Maria Bartiromo

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Author: Bernard Baruch

I made my money by selling too soon.

Author: Bernard Baruch

I never lost money by turning a profit.

Author: Bernard Baruch

Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.

Author: Abu Bashir

I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.

Author: Leonard Baskin

I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.

Author: Jean-Michel Basquiat

Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.

Author: Gregory Bateson

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?

Author: Jean Baudrillard

The press don't like to say nice things because nice is boring. It's much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we're responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit.

Author: Michael Bay

One of the big challenges for our party is to demonstrate to people that we have an agenda for economic prosperity and that we can be trusted with their money.

Author: Birch Bayh

I think that's most unfortunate about our Democratic system, that you're confining it to people who are either very wealthy in their own right or have capacity to gain access to large amounts of money.

Author: Birch Bayh

I think everything depends on money.

Author: Alan Bean

And I also serve on a caucus that addresses financial literacy for young people in this country. And it is so hypocritical that we want to talk to these kids about how to better manage their money when we are not doing a good job with our Nation's resources.

Author: Melissa Bean

Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.

Author: Warren Beatty

My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.

Author: Warren Beatty

But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.

Author: Warren Beatty

You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I've made lots of money making fun of me.

Author: Glenn Beck

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?

Author: Franz Beckenbauer

Don't judge me. I made a lot of money.

Author: Samantha Bee

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

Author: Henry Beecher

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

Author: Brendan Behan

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Author: Aphra Behn

Money gives me pleasure all the time.

Author: Hilaire Belloc

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Author: Hilaire Belloc

At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands.

Author: Robert Benchley

It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.

Author: Dirk Benedict

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

Author: Arnold Bennett

Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.

Author: Bo Bennett

If you only do it for money, that's only what you get.

Author: Stephen Bennett

Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools.

Author: William Bennett

California has set up regional collection offices around the world, staffed by California employees, specifically for out of state California businesses to collect the money and bring it back to California.

Author: Craig Benson

When we were trying to get the money for Driving Miss Daisy, everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an audience for 100 minutes essentially watching three people chatting in the kitchen.

Author: Bruce Beresford

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.

Author: Peter Berg

So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!

Author: Edgar Bergen

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

Author: Ingrid Bergman

There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we're probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to be politically correct, when we really need to make sure that our cities get the money they need.

Author: Shelley Berkley

In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

Author: Gael Bernal

Every decision that you make you have to be incredible congruent. It doesn't mean that you have to starve. If you need money, you do something that gives you money, that's normal.

Author: Gael Bernal

But you've got to have money for comfort, which obviously doesn't matter as much when you're young, but even so. I always like to bloody eat well and be warm. Have a drink when I want it.

Author: Jeffrey Bernard

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Author: Al Bernstein

If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.

Author: Halle Berry

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

Author: George Best

We didn't have money to put out everything we wanted to put out.

Author: Jello Biafra

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

Author: Jello Biafra

Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.

Author: Joe Biden