Money Quotes

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

"It's a little weird exchanging pictures for money. You know what I mean. It makes me a little uncomfortable"

"A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people's lives"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

"I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers"

Kid Rock, Musician

"I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that"

Kid Rock, Musician

"You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work"

Lee Trevino, Athlete

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

Manuel Puig, Author

"All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having to worry about supporting myself"

Mark Wahlberg, Actor

"War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money"

Ted Turner, Businessman

"When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry"

Loretta Young, Actress

"I have more money now than I know what to do with"

Mark Wahlberg, Actor

"I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not playing or singing or writing. It would just drive me crazy if I didn't"

Paul Simon, Musician

"If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't"

Larry Wall, Author

"When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.'"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"We were sweet, lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else. When you're young you think that's how life works"

Margot Kidder, Actress

"We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok"

Shaquille O'Neal, Athlete

"He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief"

Jose Marti, Activist

"I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now you have money"

Shaquille O'Neal, Athlete

"I make movies for money, exclusively for money"

Klaus Kinski, Actor

"I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see"

Carly Fiorina, Businessman

"I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature"

Naguib Mahfouz, Novelist

"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"

Jello Biafra, Musician

"There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power"

Frances McDormand, Actress

"It's really not about the money. It's just about educating yourself"

Lisa Leslie, Athlete

"I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas"

Jean-Luc Godard, Director

"If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates"

Ezra Pound, Poet

"I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth"

David Geffen, Businessman

"Happy is harder than money. Anybody who thinks money will make you happy hasn't got money"

David Geffen, Businessman

"I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place"

James Naismith, Inventor

"That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards"

Bill Lee, Athlete

"We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want"

Adam Jones, Musician

"When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led me then to make the further step, a change of loyalties"

Aldrich Ames, Criminal

"Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem"

Bill Vaughan, Journalist

"And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product"

Freddie Mercury, Musician

"I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money"

Elvis Presley, Musician

"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching"

Satchel Paige, Athlete

Page 13 of 57