Money Quotes

"For me, the risks in terms of opening that brewpub were fairly high. I put my house up as collateral, I invested the liquid money I had and two years of my time to get it over, but that's really not much of a risk for what the potential reward was if it worked"

John Hickenlooper, Politician

"It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it"

Paul Bryant, Coach

"Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me"

David Guterson, Author

"Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it"

John Lee Hooker, Musician

"I kind of just lucked into and fell into the other profession. It was really just an outgrowth of the fact that when I was in art school, I had no money whatsoever"

Martin Mull, Actor

"If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money"

Dorothy Fields, Musician

"We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise"

Robert Wyatt, Musician

"MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it"

David Rockefeller, Businessman

"When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over"

John Perkins, Economist

"And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we will demand change"

John Perkins, Economist

"New Orleans is a city whose basic industry is the service industry. That's why it makes its money. That's - it brings people to the city. People come to the city and experience the wonders of this extraordinary city and everything else. The question is that, how do we create jobs which are the jobs that have pay, that - living wages?"

Danny Glover, Actor

"France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper"

Billy Wilder, Director

"We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"In preparation for it, we need to have folks who are trained, we need facilities, equipment and supplies, that are going to be built into our society, and we are going to spend a lot of money on it"

Major Owens, Politician

"If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil"

Henry Fielding, Novelist

"Meanwhile, people have to join us and fight back against the federal government that has dropped the ball, that is in bed with these energy companies, that wants them to make more money than they've made before"

Gray Davis, Politician

"The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy"

Georg Simmel, Sociologist

"They wasn't gonna give you nothin'. I didn't care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot... You cheat me and I'm gonna get me some money, too"

John Lee Hooker, Musician

"And what is needed to prevent them from joining gangs was ample recreation for boys as well as girls, jobs and internships for training and money, and assistance to allow their families to live in decent homes"

Bobby Scott, Politician

"We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"Time will take your money, but money won't buy time"

James Taylor, Musician

"A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse in Mexico. Assimilation and becoming an American citizen are not the objective for many of them"

John Shadegg, Politician

"I've got enough money to live me two lifetimes so I don't have to do nothing I don't want to"

John Lee Hooker, Musician

"I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the blues. And I can sing the blues so deep until you can have this room full of money and I can give you the blues"

John Lee Hooker, Musician

"If we'd have said we were not upset, they would have thought we were so rich it meant nothing to us, and if we say we're upset about it, they'll say money is all we care about"

John Bonham, Musician

"I feel sick if I have to do something for the money. I can't breathe. I'm not proud of myself"

Eva Green, Actress

"But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much"

Clay Aiken, Musician

"One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements"

Dennis Hastert, Politician

"A fan sent me a letter and a $10 bill. It's a short letter - all she said was, "Hey, since it's harder for you to go out these days without getting photographed, here $10 for a pizza." I was like, "Aww, she sent me money for a pizza so I could eat at home!""

Zac Efron, Actor

"We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel"

Yakov Smirnoff, Comedian

"Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools"

William Bennett, Politician

"It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence"

Clay Aiken, Musician

"I like my money right where I can see it... hanging in my closet"

Sarah Jessica Parker, Actress

"Yet I never want to make a movie purely for the money"

Richard King, Director

"Men seem to think that page 3 girls are only interested in money. Money doesn't impress me at all. Not in the slightest"

Katie Price, Model

"We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn't hide it and the club owners paid us accordingly"

Judy Holliday, Actress

"I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing"

Judy Holliday, Actress

Page 21 of 57