Money Quotes

"You must spend money to make money"

"We only had enough money really to cut 10 things and be in there for a month because it's expensive, you know. And, singer/songwriters, today are lucky if they can get a deal, you know. So, we actually worked so fast that we really cut 20 things"

Graham Nash, Musician

"Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense"

Earl Wilson, Athlete

"Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools"

Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher

"Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful"

Martin Yan, Celebrity

"Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally. But try to be creatively lead rather than market lead. And that's important to me"

Rowan Atkinson, Comedian

"I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you"

Martin Yan, Celebrity

"Money is the barometer of a society's virtue"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts"

Aristotle Onassis, 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

"At one time I thought he wanted to be an actor. He had certain qualifications, including no money and a total lack of responsibility"

Hedda Hopper, Actress

"You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life"

Emo Philips, Comedian

"I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work"

Philip Green, Businessman

"Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money"

Mario Lemieux, Athlete

"I don't need the money, dear. I work for art"

Maria Callas, Musician

"All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it"

Curtis Carlson, Businessman

"But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money"

Imran Khan, Politician

"That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'"

Richard Armour, Poet

"The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income"

Alma Guillermoprieto, Journalist

"People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life"

Neil LaBute, Director

"Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money"

David Geffen, Businessman

"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

"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

"And I kind of feel that I have a responsibility to the people that invest their time and money with me to show up on the set every day and do the best of which I am capable"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"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

"The institutional investor remains the bigger influence on individual trades simply because the institutional investor has more money to support the order and that will have more of an impact on the stock"

Maria Bartiromo, Journalist

"A fool and his money are soon parted"

Thomas Tusser, Poet

"Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs"

Andrew Mellon, Businessman

"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

"The larger point is this: We've invested over half a billion dollars in New York since this department was stood up. We've given New York more money, by more than double, than any other city in the country"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job"

Sela Ward, Actress

"Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"Sound money is the sine qua non of a prosperous society"

Arthur Laffer, Economist

"It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience"

Bernadette Peters, Actress

"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 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

"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

"Do what you love and the money will follow"

Marsha Sinetar, Philosopher

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