Money Quotes

"With the shrinking of the US economy, and it's shrinking very rapidly, you not only have more money, but you also have fewer goods. That's a classic double-whammy on inflation"

Arthur Laffer, Economist

"It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics"

Robert Byrd, Politician

"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"

Maria Bartiromo, Journalist

"If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it will zap our discretionary income. We won't have the extra money to buy that washing machine or new winter coat-all big ticket items that are important to economic growth"

Maria Bartiromo, Journalist

"I've been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldn't pay for the dental work he needed"

Matthew Lesko, Entertainer

"My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep"

William Weld, Politician

"We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved, and you don't want to make it the focal point. You can't keep beating that dead horse"

Puff Daddy, Musician

"It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please"

Rose Kennedy, Author

"I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it"

Rose Kennedy, Author

"The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure"

Jon Bon Jovi, Musician

"It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment"

Martin Van Buren, President

"Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum"

Joe E. Lewis, Comedian

"I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves"

Joe E. Lewis, Comedian

"Nobody leaves a hotel without getting a full measure of three months of rental assistance. So no one has been evicted - no one who's eligible has been evicted from a hotel without getting a significant amount of money to find - to pay for their rent"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"Some studies show that women can be better money managers than men because they tend to be more conservative and do their homework. Men tend to take more risks without the research"

Maria Bartiromo, Journalist

"It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money"

Joe E. Lewis, Comedian

"People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library"

Frank Black, Musician

"The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are we going to continue to play political games and - and - or are we going to say, we can do something right now to create jobs, to put money in the pockets of the middle-class, hire construction workers, teachers, veterans?"

David Plouffe, Public Servant

"I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts"

Bille August, Director

"There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money"

Muddy Waters, Musician

"Now that I'm gettin' old enough to get some money, I'd like to have some money. I don't get much made, I need to conquer a big chunk of money. Not quit playin' but quit playin' so hard"

Muddy Waters, Musician

"As I've said before, free money scams are a problem"

Matthew Lesko, Entertainer

"When we were first offered a book deal prior to Avon's, they were trying to get us to change it from the first-person story into a how-to book, and they were offering us some decent money. My agent told me; "you should really consider this""

Kenny Loggins, Musician

"The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any"

Katherine Whitehorn, Journalist

"Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker"

Ron Chernow, Author

"We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers"

Bob Filner, Politician

"The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets"

Lysander Spooner, Philosopher

"Many scammers are only using personal checks for payment because they can take the money and run"

Matthew Lesko, Entertainer

"I can't help thinking if she - the director of a government agency - is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from - how often lower-level bureaucrats must give wrong answers when people are looking for help to start a business"

Matthew Lesko, Entertainer

"This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it"

Josiah Warren, Inventor

"I'm terrible with money, absolutely awful. I'm always losing it"

Ron Wood, Musician

"Teachers can go on cruises with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and anyone can spend the summer as a volunteer in a National Parks and even earn money doing it"

Matthew Lesko, Entertainer

"The second thing we did was said, OK, we've now identified the risk, but what do you want to do with the money? Because it's not enough to have risk; you've got to have a meaningful use for the money we give you"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"Without money honor is merely a disease"

Jean Racine, Dramatist

"You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset"

Tom Hopkins, Businessman

"If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes"

Michael Bloomberg, Politician

"And if we make the process political, if we start to make it personal, we're actually going to frustrate good public policy, in terms of managing this money"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"And I think the more money you put in people's hands, the more they will spend. And if they don't spend it, they invest it. And investing it is another way of creating jobs. It puts money into mutual funds or other kinds of banks that can go out and make loans, and we need to do that"

Michael Bloomberg, Politician

"The studios will go wherever they smell money. It's like sharks to the blood"

Don Bluth, Artist

"The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth"

Mario Puzo, Novelist

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