Money Quotes: Wise Words on Wealth & Finance (Page 27)

"The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there"

Mick Taylor, Musician

"I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books"

Kevin J. Anderson, Author

"I think money in general hurts all sports"

Will McDonough, Writer

"The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god"

Scott Alexander, Author

"Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company"

Samuel Pepys, Writer

"Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food"

Frank Howard Clark, Writer

"I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral"

Moon Unit Zappa, Musician

"Ty Tryon made a lot of money after turning pro, but he might not have been ready. I don't want to make a lot of money for a couple of months and then not be ready"

Michelle Wie, Athlete

"If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come"

Lawrence Welk, Musician

"When you look at Regis, he really and truly does feel for those people, and I feel like I've done it too. You're giving away somebody else's money so what do you care? It's not your money"

Wink Martindale, Entertainer

"I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me"

Linda McCartney, Photographer

"I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough"

Sergei Bubka, Athlete

"Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it"

Evita Peron, Statesman

"Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything"

Santiago Durango, Musician

"This isn't about the money. This is just for me. I love music"

Justin Timberlake, Musician

"The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money"

A. J. Liebling, Journalist

"Success and money can really be quite blinding"

Jim Harrison, Writer

"Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations"

Jim DeMint, Politician

"Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights"

Suze Orman, Author

"I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil"

Dustin Hoffman, Actor

"My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money"

Warren Beatty, Actor

"If someone wants to give you, like, $100 million, it's hard to say no. But I don't want to accept that kind of money right now. I'd feel burdened by it"

Michelle Wie, Athlete

"The NRA was one of the items that we pointed to when we added money to the labor, health and Education appropriations bill by reducing the size of the tax cut"

David Obey, Politician

"If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone"

Arthur C. Brooks, Author

"In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that"

Theo de Raadt, Scientist

"Our blood will turn from red to blue, although our money is but new"

Walter Annenberg, Businessman

"Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money"

Brandon Boyd, Musician

"Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position"

Rocco DiSpirito, Celebrity

"I think everything depends on money"

Alan Bean, Astronaut

"I do them all for the money, I really do"

William H. Macy, Actor

"I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It's not that I don't want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records"

Matthew Sweet, Musician

"I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don't want any of the other stuff"

Matthew Broderick, Actor

"Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go"

Margaret Walker, Poet

"Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money"

J. Edgar Hoover, Public Servant

"People didn't stop spending money, they just spent it on things that complement their PCs"

Stephen Baker, Athlete

"I do not care for the money, just for the glory"

Anna Held, Entertainer

"They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel"

Ruben Blades, Musician

"You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity"

Thomas Wolfe, Novelist

"Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites"

Suze Orman, Author

"The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'"

Dinah Shore, Actress

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