Money Quotes

"And I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket"

Emil Zatopek, Athlete

"Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing"

Robert Kiyosaki, Author

"I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy"

Peter Singer, Philosopher

"It is very similar to companies like Google and other internet companies. When you go and search on Google you don't pay for that. But sometimes you click on an advert and Google makes money on that"

Niklas Zennstrom, Scientist

"The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing"

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Novelist

"Passion is the thing that sustains you in acting. If you're doing it for fame and money, don't even bother because it will never happen. The last thing I ever expected was to be paid for this"

Scott Patterson, Actor

"I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche"

Richard O'Brien, Actor

"I don't care what TV show you work on, even a movie for that matter, it's all about time and money eventually"

Nicholas Lea, Actor

"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"

John Astin, Actor

"Millions have been taken from me. If you are not on top of it and you make a lot of money, and you trust business managers, then, yes, money will be taken from you"

Stephanie Mills, Musician

"Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands"

Ryszard Kapuscinski, Journalist

"Don't get too caught up in making money or having a job, get excited about the fact that you can design your life"

Darren L. Johnson, Author

"Finally, when the money was high enough, the script suddenly revealed itself as being very clear to me"

Robert Vaughn, Actor

"That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money"

Wim Wenders, Director

"It just doesn't mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends"

Robert Wyatt, Musician

"According to New York publishers, Bill Clinton will get more money for his book than Hillary Clinton got for hers. Well, duh. At least his book has some sex in it"

Jay Leno, Comedian

"There are some things that you can fulfil with money, but at the end of the day these are not the things that make you happy. It is the small things that make life good"

Sebastian Vettel, Celebrity

"I would work as a cook, get a little money, then open another restaurant"

Paul Prudhomme, Celebrity

"Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money"

Edwidge Danticat, Author

"I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for me"

John Perkins, Economist

"The most money we have ever been able to get appropriated for the juvenile justice bills was $55 million a year, about one-tenth of what was necessary"

Bobby Scott, Politician

"The Tom Strong thing was totally for the money. I plan to get looser after I finish this Maggie saga"

Jaime Hernandez, Artist

"If an original piece of wardrobe came up from Star Wars, I'd probably spend a lot of money on it"

Johnny Vegas, Comedian

"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"

Christina Aguilera, Musician

"Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil"

Henry Fielding, Novelist

"I don't care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I can to make me feel good about myself"

David Morse

"Not one Republican president has balanced the budget in 34 years. You can not trust Republicans with your money"

Howard Dean, Politician

"I'm involved in Project ALS which is trying to get money for stem cell research. That's one I've been pretty involved with because if you can cure that, you can cure so many other diseases"

Gina Gershon, Actress

"The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household"

William Christopher Handy, Musician

"What I am saying is, all health care has a problem with costs. Medicare is growing slower than the private insurance plans. Why? Because of their efficiency. They don't have to give money to shareholders. Why should be defending shareholders?"

Anthony Weiner, Politician

"I'm very excited to see where the characters and their relationships go. But in the end, it really boils down to the people who have more power than me, who control the money"

Brandon Routh, Actor

"Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money"

Bobby Scott, Politician

"Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make"

Dick Wolf, Producer

"A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader"

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist

"I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money"

Nat King Cole, Musician

"Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience"

Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer

"There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'"

L. Ron Hubbard, Author

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