Money Quotes: Wise Words on Wealth & Finance (Page 10)

"Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker"

"Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money"

"I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

"Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish"

Tiger Woods, Athlete

"It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

"Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving"

Dan Millman, Author

"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars"

J. Paul Getty, Businessman

"If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man"

J. Paul Getty, Businessman

"America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable"

Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist

"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?"

Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist

"Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money"

Arthur Miller, Playwright

"Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy"

Spike Milligan, Comedian

"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy"

Spike Milligan, Comedian

"Money won is twice as sweet as money earned"

Paul Newman, Actor

"If I was a billionaire, I'd be smart with my money"

Bruno Mars, Musician

"I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it"

Larry Bird, Coach

"I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful"

Kim Novak, Actress

"I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them"

John Le Carre, Author

"I never lost money by turning a profit"

Bernard Baruch, Businessman

"Nobody ever lost money taking a profit"

Bernard Baruch, Businessman

"The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money"

Plautus, Playwright

"While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position"

Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist

"If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position"

Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist

"I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money"

Beth Henley, Playwright

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

Brendan Behan, Dramatist

"When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money"

Tertullian, Author

"Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money"

Earl Wilson, Athlete

"I don't know what to do with it. I'm very fortunate to have it, and it gives you room to maneuver. But the main thing about having money is it means you don't have to worry about it. And that for me is a lovely thing. It's not for fast cars and hookers"

Daniel Radcliffe, Actor

"I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive"

Corrine Brown, Politician

"Not only should we be giving Amtrak the money it needs to continue to provide services; we should be providing security money to upgrade their tracks and improve safety and security measures in the entire rail system"

Corrine Brown, Politician

"Words are the money of fools"

Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher

"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"

Judy Garland, Actress

"I can live without money, but I cannot live without love"

Judy Garland, Actress

"If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity"

Sun Tzu, Philosopher

"Money is our madness, our vast collective madness"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue"

William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist

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