Money Quotes

"An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head"

"Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money"

Mackenzie Crook, Actor

"I haven't got a car or a house. I've got a wife, but I didn't pay for her! I spend all my money on my glorious wife. She's here with a knife at my throat!"

Mackenzie Crook, Actor

"Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted"

Richard Wagner, Composer

"If we had loads of money as a family, things would be different and they'd come to visit more and I'd get to spend more time here. But I'm laying down roots in America so when I'm there, just being at home, it's harder to break away from that"

Rick Allen, Musician

"I'm not driven by money and I'm not driven by career"

Richard O'Brien, Actor

"I've not as yet found one hobby that would absorb me completely when I'm not working, but I have just bought a new apartment and didn't quite bargain for the amount of effort and time and money that that absorbs"

Hugh Dancy, Actor

"If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time"

Willie Nelson, Musician

"I wrote the Brotherhood song for no money out of my deep feelings about humanity, and because I was flattered that whatever talents I had, had been recognized"

Tom Glazer, Musician

"We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn"

Orville Redenbacher, Businessman

"There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact"

Oswald Spengler, Philosopher

"We put our life on the line to fight for them, put on a show and these guys take our money so whatever happens to Bob Arum, Don King or anyone else is fine with me"

Larry Holmes, Athlete

"It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption"

Darrell Issa, Politician

"I did it at night because I loved it. I never did it to make money, as a job. I just did it because I had to"

Danielle Steel, Novelist

"I had no money nor friends to prepare for the trial till last night"

William Kidd, Explorer

"And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think - what's going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way?"

Stephen Breyer, Judge

"Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?"

John Kricfalusi, Artist

"I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money"

Arthur Godfrey, Entertainer

"I would argue that's because we had a bunch of smart people running around here. They were coming in and working very hard and many of them had left jobs in which they made significantly more money"

John Hickenlooper, Politician

"I don't think there is a good reason for an abortion, but Dr. Jasper made me really realize it was just a racket. He was just doing it for the money. He didn't care about the women"

Norma McCorvey, Celebrity

"Money don't rule me, record companies don't rule me"

Link Wray, Musician

"I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money"

John Hickenlooper, Politician

"Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words"

Samuel Goldwyn, Producer

"I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to make sure that I am at least trying to weigh myself down, that there's a challenge each time"

Martin Mull, Actor

"Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most"

Ted Rall, Cartoonist

"Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting"

River Phoenix, Actor

"Well, I think the best form would be to put money directly in the pockets of consumers"

Franklin Raines, Businessman

"Nobody thought about having more money than you could ever spend"

Slick Rick, Musician

"Bob Arum and Don King can do their thing but if I fought for those guys and they put the money up like they are supposed to then I don't have a problem"

Larry Holmes, Athlete

"Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send money home"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"It's never been about making money"

Rob Zombie, Musician

"Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial"

Frank Dane

"Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others"

David Rockefeller, Businessman

"On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich"

Josef Albers, Artist

"France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper"

Billy Wilder, Director

"I'm always dissing Ray and making fun of him, talking about his money"

Patricia Heaton, Actress

"There's a great deal of disturbance in this country and how black feel about what happened in Katrina, and, you know, many of the comics, many of performers are in Las Vegas and New Orleans trying to raise money for what happened there"

Michael Richards, Actor

"Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles"

Louis Farrakhan, Activist

"Politics is not about money"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

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