Money Quotes

"I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money"

"There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be"

Johnny Depp, Actor

"You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal"

Johnny Depp, Actor

"An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans"

Ron Paul, Politician

"I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting"

Jackie Kennedy, First Lady

"The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover"

Al Franken, Comedian

"We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it"

George Farquhar, Dramatist

"Money is the sinews of love, as of war"

George Farquhar, Dramatist

"Expensive clothes are a waste of money"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it"

Elton John, Musician

"I have a lot of money stashed away, but I do live my life from day to day"

Elton John, Musician

"Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him"

Dorothy L. Sayers, Author

"A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank"

Ron Paul, Politician

"Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time"

Horace Mann, Educator

"The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze"

Adele, Musician

"We're going to have to forgive a great deal of the Soviet era debt. There's no question about that. Let's face up to that. We're going to have to put in money if Russia is really going to consolidate a democracy"

Jeffrey Sachs, Economist

"Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team"

Mark Millar, Writer

"If you have a lot of short-term debt, it means that all of that money can be demanded in a very short period of time. Technically, short-term debt means money that's coming due within a year. Typically, it means money that's coming due within 30 to 90 days"

Jeffrey Sachs, Economist

"If we did go into a recession, something that's always possible for the U.S. or Europe, we could lower interest rates and expand the money supply without worrying about the price of gold"

Jeffrey Sachs, Economist

"Because A Walk To Remember had come out and it had made money and I got a lot of congratulations at that time as it happens out there"

Shane West, Actor

"Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks"

Al Franken, Comedian

"I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal"

Olivier Martinez, Actor

"Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working"

Calvin Klein, Designer

"You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards"

Heston Blumenthal, Chef

"We were saving, saving, saving then going to France and blowing the money eating. She was a nurse and had never experienced fine dining but she loved it, too. Our mates thought it absurd"

Heston Blumenthal, Chef

"I like the mentality of the Americans. It's like when you talk about money"

Alain Prost, Celebrity

"The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it"

Yoko Ono, Artist

"I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace"

Richard Cobden, Businessman

"All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money"

Robert Collier, Publisher

"But I've always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn't particularly changed my lifestyle"

John Deacon, Musician

"I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars - BMW's mostly - for myself and my family"

Tom Felton, Actor

"We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation"

Anthony Burgess, Novelist

"It's nice to be financially secure. Apart from that, I really don't care too much about money"

Magnus Carlsen

"Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing"

Lionel Messi, Athlete

"I never killed anybody. I never wanted to hurt anybody. I just wanted to make money"

Meyer Lansky, Criminal

"Money should not, and must not, change our commitment to solving problems and building this state"

Dave Freudenthal, Politician

"I had to put my kid before my career and all the money I was making. I decided to do the right thing. I was dying inside. If I didn't have my daughter, I would be dead right now, for sure"

Brian Welch, Musician

"No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation"

Abdul Qadeer Khan, Scientist

"The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents"

Will McDonough, Writer

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