Money Quotes

"Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit"

Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist

"Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it"

Henry Fielding, Novelist

"A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money"

Amiri Baraka, Poet

"A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children"

Alveda King, Clergyman

"Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half"

John Wanamaker, Businessman

"There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make some money if it's not something I deeply care about"

John McEnroe, Athlete

"Money gives me pleasure all the time"

Hilaire Belloc, Poet

"Money flows into the US, and inflates US assets, and allows the US to have a monstrous trade deficit. That means we are consuming more than we are producing"

David Korten, Activist

"Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it"

Esther Williams, Actress

"We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"No matter how many people tell you, Save your money, when you've got a series, you never do. Somehow it doesn't seem important. Maybe it's because you've been without money for so long as an actor"

David Morse

"I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value"

Nat King Cole, Musician

"If the Eagles were to get back together, it would have to be for the right reasons. I think it would look awful if it were just for the money"

Glenn Frey, Musician

"When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society"

George Soros, Businessman

"I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time"

Hilaire Belloc, Poet

"We've not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can't trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I'm much more conservative with money than George Bush is"

Howard Dean, Politician

"I would love to do a big studio movie, just because they're going to put the money into distributing it. A lot of times you do these little movies, you love them and they never get seen by anyone"

Gina Gershon, Actress

"Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"They are only after my money, they are nothing for me"

Frank Leslie, Artist

"I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half"

John Wanamaker, Businessman

"But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money"

Michael Polanyi, Scientist

"It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich"

Dirk Benedict, Actor

"Time and again we have learned that the best way to achieve growth and create jobs is for hardworking people to keep more of their own money in their own pockets"

Chris Chocola, Politician

"I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money"

Dennis Rodman, Athlete

"I spent money, I slept with women around the league, but I always kept my mind on the game"

Dennis Rodman, Athlete

"Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth"

David Korten, Activist

"I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made"

Elia Kazan, Director

"I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about"

Dirk Benedict, Actor

"The most important thing however is the money. What use would it be to us, to have a a mighty stadium but a useless team, because we couldn't afford anything better?"

Franz Beckenbauer, Athlete

"When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover"

Howard Dean, Politician

"If nothing else, I have money"

Bjork, Musician

"There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious"

Harriet Ann Jacobs, Writer

"I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise"

Elia Kazan, Director

"Money is a mechanism for control"

David Korten, Activist

"Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it"

Charley Pride, Athlete

"The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around 20,000 pounds. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child"

Daniel Hannan, Politician

"Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected"

George Soros, Businessman

"Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher"

Alanis Morissette, Musician

"A trillion here, a trillion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money"

Daniel Hannan, Politician

"We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down"

Chester Brown, Cartoonist

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