Money Quotes

"MTV lets us do whatever we want. For me, there is freedom in serving an experienced client who knows what they want and has the money to do it. MTV is that for us"

Ben Nicholson, Artist

"When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

"Fame, I have already. Now I need the money"

Wilhelm Steinitz, Celebrity

"There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics"

Imran Khan, Politician

"I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about"

Toni Morrison, Novelist

"I've got a bit of money in the bank. I'm quite comfortable"

Paul Gascoigne, Athlete

"Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network"

Toni Morrison, Novelist

"Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down"

Uwe Boll, Director

"And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"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"

Jeffrey Bernard, Journalist

"The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it"

Horace Greeley, Editor

"I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works"

Camille Claudel, Sculptor

"Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course"

Helen Rowland, Journalist

"I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian"

Larry David, Actor

"A fool and her money are soon courted"

Helen Rowland, Journalist

"If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life"

Billy Graham, Clergyman

"The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough"

Heinrich Heine, Poet

"The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money"

James Madison, President

"Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who is finally left with it has lost"

Evelyn Waugh, Author

"As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

"There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else"

Andrew Carnegie, Businessman

"But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out"

John Gay, Poet

"I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy"

Steve Martin, Comedian

"Don’t booze too much, don’t take drugs, don’t rape women — only for love or for money as they say"

Yevgeny Prigozhin, Businessman

"Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help"

Kid Rock, Musician

"Just recently I worked with Van Morrison and I came to realize that money can't make a decent human being out of you"

Jim Sullivan, Musician

"The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect"

Sam Ewing, Athlete

"Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets"

Victor Kiam, Businessman

"I turn over a lot of money for a lot of people and I'm the smallest fish in it"

Michael Hutchence, Musician

"Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

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

Jello Biafra, Musician

"I suspect that we might actually start selling some records with these artists in about 10 years. Some the people who invested, they're a little tight-because it's a lot of money to start up a company"

Branford Marsalis, Musician

"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"

John McCarthy, Politician

"Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective"

Donald Rumsfeld, Politician

"If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring"

Marya Mannes, Journalist

"The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money"

Rick Wright, Musician

"When we're in a peak, we make a ton of money, and as soon as we make a ton of money, we're desperately looking for a way to spend it. And we diversify into areas that, frankly, we don't know how to run very well"

Bill Ford, Businessman

"Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

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

Lee Trevino, Athlete

"Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier"

Marya Mannes, Journalist

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