Money Quotes

"If you're going to be at a job environment, you should love it. You shouldn't do it just for money. You should do it because you love it. And the money comes naturally"

Debbi Fields, Businesswoman

"Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make money with. I never felt that. If I took the assignment, I'd give it my best shot"

Roger Corman, Producer

"I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

"The money part is one of the most difficult things. Coppola always said I should do a tango movie. If it hadn't been for him, I don't know where we would have gotten the money"

Robert Duvall, Actor

"Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws"

Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Businessman

"You make your first album, you make some money, and you feel like you still have to show face, like 'I still go to the projects.' I'm like, why? Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out. You grew up there. What makes you think it's so cool?"

Jay-Z, Musician

"I know the game wasn't a classic, but the night was about more than that-it was about bringing back the memories and raising money for former heroes who have now fallen on hard times"

David Ginola, Athlete

"Do what you love and the money will follow"

Marsha Sinetar, Philosopher

"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes her laws"

Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Businessman

"If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you"

Neal Boortz, Journalist

"I think Nina Simone has had an amazing journey. She was spicy and she had attitude and she didn't care, she wanted her money in a paper bag and don't mess with me and I've been doing some research on that so"

Nia Long, Actress

"We've suffered a war, and one thing we know: Whenever our nation's faced war, whether it was in the 1980s when we were winning the Cold War or in the 1940s during World War II, the responsible thing to do has been to borrow money to win the war"

Ken Mehlman, Politician

"There are very few groups that really stay together. The leaders of groups make enough money to be able to afford to work a maximum of 35-40 weeks a year"

Norman Granz, Musician

"The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired"

Major Owens, Politician

"All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good"

Jamie Lee Curtis, Actress

"I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money"

Gavin Rossdale, Musician

"I prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke"

Brion James, Actor

"From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase"

Alex Campbell, Politician

"Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that"

Ad Reinhardt, Artist

"I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship"

Jackie Kennedy, First Lady

"The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

"Success is not just about making money or achieving your goals. It's about having a positive impact on the world and making a difference in people's lives"

George Gillett, Businessman

"The primary goal of a vendor is to make money"

Theo de Raadt, Scientist

"I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people"

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Artist

"Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully"

Scott Alexander, Author

"In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic"

Mark Cuban, Businessman

"Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money"

Ingvar Kamprad, Businessman

"Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings"

Chantal Kreviazuk, Musician

"I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing"

Claude Chabrol, Director

"I think even if I did the research mentioned above, it would be a total waste of money because if those people don't believe in the testimonials, they won't believe in the research at all. They would say that I made it all up. So why waste money?"

Alex Chiu, Businessman

"What we're talking about is the price of goods, all goods, in terms of money. That has nothing to do with unemployment, except for the fact that you get fewer goods. And when you have more money and fewer goods, the amount of dollars per good goes up. It goes up because there are fewer goods and it goes up because there is more money"

Arthur Laffer, Economist

"I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table"

Paul Auster, Author

"The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians"

Henry Hazlitt, Philosopher

"People first, then money, then things"

Suze Orman, Author

"One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones"

Waylon Jennings, Musician

"We're basically after Joe's beer money, and Joe likes his beer, so you better make sure that what you give him is at least as pleasurable to him as having his six-pack of beer would be"

Jerry Pournelle, Journalist

"The most popular labor-saving device is still money"

Phyllis George, Journalist

"I never turned down a movie because they wouldn't give me enough money"

Jason Patric, Actor

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