Money Quotes

"Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value"

"The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason"

Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist

"So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!"

Edgar Bergen, Actor

"Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I'm sure you know, money is all, and if they can get another 26 programs of the same thing even though it advances the culture or those actor's careers not at all it doesn't matter"

Rowan Atkinson, Comedian

"Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery"

Spike Milligan, Comedian

"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes her laws"

Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Businessman

"Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on"

Stephen Sondheim, Composer

"Life is a game. Money is how we keep score"

Ted Turner, Businessman

"Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money"

David Geffen, Businessman

"It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them"

Bill Vaughan, Journalist

"Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve"

Bob Riley, Politician

"What we're talking about is the price of goods, all goods, in terms of money. That has nothing to do with unemployment, except for the fact that you get fewer goods. And when you have more money and fewer goods, the amount of dollars per good goes up. It goes up because there are fewer goods and it goes up because there is more money"

Arthur Laffer, Economist

"From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase"

Alex Campbell, Politician

"Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that"

Ad Reinhardt, Artist

"Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money"

Ingvar Kamprad, Businessman

"No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money"

Samuel Gompers, Activist

"As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue"

David Korten, Activist

"Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it"

Mark Twain, Author

"We have the best government that money can buy"

Mark Twain, Author

"Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"I can make more generals, but horses cost money"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity"

Douglas Adams, Writer

"I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements"

Doug Coupland, Author

"A fool and his money are soon elected"

Will Rogers, Actor

"Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will"

Nelson Mandela, Statesman

"Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does"

Jane Austen, Writer

"In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self"

William Penn, Leader

"Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jurist

"I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could"

Kamisese Mara, Statesman

"The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba"

Kamisese Mara, Statesman

"The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

"Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given"

Mother Teresa, Leader

"As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving"

Tom Jones, Musician

"If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center"

Tupac Shakur, Musician

"Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time"

Joey Lauren Adams, Actress

"If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money"

Tyler Perry, Actor

"I made my money by selling too soon"

Bernard Baruch, Businessman

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