Money Quotes

"When I come to work each day, whether as a commentator for TheStreet.com or a host of Mad Money With Jim Cramer, I have only one thought in mind: helping people with their money"

Jim Cramer, Businessman

"I think that the change began... I made a film a few years ago called The Spitfire Grill, and that didn't make much money either, but it was a good film and an independent film"

Ellen Burstyn, Actress

"Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up"

Jay Carney, Public Servant

"I think that stocks have been this tremendous, tremendous equalizer for people in this country. Guys who can't make a lot of money at their jobs have been able to make a lot of money in the stock market"

Jim Cramer, Businessman

"We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers"

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet

"The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all "bottom line" editors; everything depends on the money"

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet

"Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time"

Jerry Only, Musician

"Modern money is almost altogether credit money"

John Buchanan Robinson, Politician

"Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction"

Helen Garner, Novelist

"That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it"

Lukas Foss, Composer

"I really came out to L.A. to take the money and run"

Kristen Johnston, Actress

"I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band"

Evan Dando, Musician

"I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that"

Hugh Grant, Actor

"It's actually great to shoot far away from Hollywood because we don't have the distractions of the parties and premieres and all that. And, of course, you can save money - there are no good shoe stores"

Katie Holmes, Actress

"It was hard to turn down the money since I didn't have a job, but I didn't want to exploit my notoriety because I knew the way I'd been living was wrong"

Donna Rice, Celebrity

"I kept my clothes on. I borrowed money"

Estella Warren, Model

"A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services"

Edward Sapir, Scientist

"If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing"

Henry Kravis, Businessman

"There's one thing which I hate about color films... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money by working in the laboratory to bring out the dominant hues, or to make color films where there isn't any color"

Claude Chabrol, Director

"Look, don't congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, as long as money will last to buy it"

Henry Kravis, Businessman

"Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige"

George Murray, Poet

"Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money"

Ed O'Neill, Actor

"You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy"

Garth Brooks, Musician

"That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati"

Gamaliel Bailey, Journalist

"We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"I was trying to spend it as quickly as possible. Because I'm so lazy, all that money created a block. I was flying around the world, staying at fancy hotels, having fun and trying to get rid of it as quickly as possible, so I could get on with some more work"

Evan Dando, Musician

"If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it"

Donna Mills, Actress

"I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career"

Dabney Coleman, Actor

"Every Vacation movie didn't just make the studio money. They each made the studio a lot of money"

Chevy Chase, Comedian

"I have worried about getting pigeon-holed, but now I think I've done enough weird, offbeat stuff not to be. And I also know that I do things for the right reasons: I've made my money, so I don't have to say yes to anything"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise?"

Catherine Zeta-Jones, Actress

"But the Americans have no extra money. They have their own problems. They can provide financial assistance for two, three, four, or six months at most"

Eduard Shevardnadze, Politician

"I don't think Amber taped Scott or testified for money, but the opportunity certainly presented itself. It makes me a bit uncomfortable, but at least she never sold the story before trial to the tabloids"

Catherine Crier, Journalist

"In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest"

John Buchanan Robinson, Politician

"Capital, however capital may be defined, would practically cease to exist as an income producing fund, for the simple reason that if money, wherewith to buy capital, could be obtained for one-half of one per cent, capital itself could command no higher price"

John Buchanan Robinson, Politician

"The mutual fund industry provided the money for Intel and Motorola and Hewlett-Packard to crush the competitors"

Jim Cramer, Businessman

"Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts"

Bob Lilly, Athlete

"Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it"

Ellen Burstyn, Actress

"I mean it's the most objective industry in the world. If your numbers stink, you're out. If your numbers are good, you get more money. It's the most Darwinian, it's beautiful, it's brutal, it works"

Jim Cramer, Businessman

"Our ministry is supported entirely by faith, through the missions gifts of readers who receive my messages every three weeks. We seldom mention money, and we never burden supporters"

David Wilkerson, Clergyman

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