Money Quotes

"We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us"

"Why would people spend good money to have my pants?"

"The commercial broadcasters have tremendous influence in Washington, D.C., for a couple of reasons. First, they're extremely rich and they have lots of money and they have had for a long time, so they can give money to politicians, which gets their attention"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"The only way I'd have gone was if it would better my career, I would not have gone just for the money. The point was to go to a club that could win trophies"

Teddy Sheringham, Athlete

"The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women"

Marguerite Young, Author

"After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington to please stop spending money we don't have. But, instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt, unlike anything we have seen in the history of our country"

Michele Bachmann, Politician

"Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people"

Mark Cuban, Businessman

"The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money"

Linda Chavez, Author

"Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either"

Kristin Davis, Actress

"It is not secret here in Congress we have not had the discipline in many instances to keep our hands out of the cookie jar of Social Security. Now to stop this I propose that in the future that Congress cannot get its hands on the money in the first place"

Jeff Miller, Politician

"I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar"

Jackson Browne, Musician

"It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing"

John Doerr, Businessman

"Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?"

Margaret Carlson, Journalist

"If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money"

Lamar Alexander, Politician

"It is no secret that those of us in the Northwest believe the Administration's proposal to drive up the cost of electricity in our region is not only misguided, but also will not achieve the intended goal of raising money for the treasury"

Greg Walden, Politician

"There's no amount of money that would make me decide something for a career"

Eva Longoria, Actress

"You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor"

William Lyon Phelps, Educator

"I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream"

Victoria Principal, Actress

"Maybe if you and ten of your friends could pool your savings and borrow some money and actually buy some obscure station in Sonoma, and then take some chances and have some fun"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs"

Michael Badnarik, Politician

"The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them"

Wilt Chamberlain, Athlete

"Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money"

William Lyon Phelps, Educator

"Players today are concerned about the money, but the large dollars only go to those players who are the best"

Lynn Swann, Athlete

"People don't trade money for things when they value their money more highly than they value the things"

Roy H. Williams, Businessman

"No trade will be made unless they want the thing more than they want their money"

Roy H. Williams, Businessman

"I know that money speaks more loudly than need"

Knute Nelson, Politician

"I like to see how I can do it for less money"

Stanley Tucci, Actor

"My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere"

Katy Perry, Musician

"So Europe's a big driver. And at one point, if the euro hadn't devalued, they would have been making as much money as the US with half the stores. Returns were higher"

Jim Cantalupo, Businessman

"I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making"

Bill Murray, Actor

"I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job"

Bill Murray, Actor

"They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems"

Paul Hawken, Environmentalist

"I certainly would have regretted not getting into wrestling. It's been very lucrative for me and I've been fortunate to get into it and make money and not do anything stupid where I invested in something that collapsed"

Owen Hart, Entertainer

"We still have that same burn, to get that same kind of laughs. So whether the studio wants us to or not, we're going to do it. The money is just a byproduct of coming out with good stuff. Our whole thing is building that rapport with the audience"

Shawn Wayans, Actor

"I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them - which was much higher than what the trader was giving them"

Muhammad Yunus, Economist

"The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it"

Mitch McConnell, Politician

"I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over"

Muhammad Yunus, Economist

"I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh"

Muhammad Yunus, Economist

"Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it"

Frank Howard Clark, Writer

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