Money Quotes

"If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did"

Steve Guttenberg, Actor

"I've made a lot of people a lot of money, and I've made a lot of people really happy. I've entertained millions and millions of people"

Steve Guttenberg, Actor

"Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum of money in the county for intoxicating liquor creates lawlessness, makes criminals, wrecks homes and brings trouble to innocent women and children"

Thomas Jordan Jarvis, Politician

"Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year"

Polly Toynbee, Journalist

"The way I grew up, I was always taught that it's uncouth to talk about money, and that's not what should inspire you"

Justin Timberlake, Musician

"Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not"

Joe Murray, Artist

"Studies indicate that most of young adults struggle to grasp even the most basic financial principles that will allow them to manage money and prepare for their future"

Ron Lewis, Politician

"Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master"

P. T. Barnum, Entertainer

"The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists"

William Jennings Bryan, Lawyer

"Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves"

Phyllis George, Journalist

"The hardware manufacturers, game designers, cable companies and computer companies and, in fact, film studios are going to ensure that this thing marches on. They know that they are going to make an enormous amount of money from it"

Thomas Dolby, Musician

"I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place"

Richard Stallman, Scientist

"I think you're only free if you're working on very low or huge money"

George A. Romero, Director

"People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the "best" in your chosen field, whatever it is"

Donald G. Mitchell

"It's only money, honey"

Marge Schott, Businessman

"Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor"

Kevin Costner, Actor

"The last thing you want to do, unless it's a very unusual situation, is to invest money"

John Kluge, Businessman

"Money is not a fund of knowledge"

John Kluge, Businessman

"You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job, but it doesn't pay as much. And so, that's what's happened to us is that we have put in so much entitlement into our government, that we really have spoiled our citizenry and said you don't want the jobs that are available"

Sharron Angle, Politician

"In fact, I had a series of offers which would have brought me a lot of money to make films and package TV programs. There were people who said to me, we'll put a million dollars in your bank account tomorrow, which is a hard thing to turn down"

Roone Arledge, Journalist

"When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios"

Sasha Alexander, Actress

"So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money"

Jim Harrison, Writer

"Money is not our primary aim. Changing the behavior and the practice of the gun industry is"

Marc Morial, Politician

"As to whether the people who were supposedly to put up the money and did put it up or whether it was Arthur's own money is something which I shall never know"

Peter Porter, Soldier

"I've been in a situation where I was after the money"

Morris Chestnut, Actor

"And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons"

Tony Campolo, Clergyman

"There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"To some extent I could identify with that because I kind of just made my money and got out"

Thomas Haden Church, Actor

"I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that"

Steve Guttenberg, Actor

"I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forces who are so decent that they would say: Give the Iraqi people money, we do not want to be paid back. That is the strength of our country"

Lindsey Graham, Politician

"I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money"

Juliana Hatfield, Musician

"About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck"

Johnny Rivers, Musician

"Today, they're just up there for the money, just packaged and be gone"

Ronnie Spector, Musician

"The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people's money on proven blood cord, bone marrow, germ cell, and adult cell research"

Roger Wicker, Politician

"We're kidding on that. One of the things I insisted upon when we went into this project was that we are full partners, going fifty-fifty, both on the money and on the say of what's going on with the books"

Robert Asprin, Author

"Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo"

Zach Wamp, Politician

"I donate money to the existing foundation that funds the US Ski Team kids"

Picabo Street, Athlete

"But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites"

Warren Beatty, Actor

"As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office"

Molly Ivins, Journalist

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