Money & Finance: Money Quotes

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"Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I'm sure you know, money is all, and if they can get another 26 programs of the same thing even though it advances the culture or those actors' careers not at all, it doesn't matter"

Rowan Atkinson, Comedian

"Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent"

Marlon Brando, Actor

"Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else"

Jesse Ventura, Politician

"Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel"

Rahm Emanuel, Politician

"It's such a bore being always poor"

Langston Hughes, Poet

Langston Hughes

"I'm not really interested in making money"

Steven Spielberg, Director

Steven Spielberg

"Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them"

David Ricardo, Economist

"The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden"

Jay-Z, Musician

"The economy is a very sensitive organism"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

Hjalmar Schacht

"In the same manner, if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed"

David Ricardo, Economist

"When oil and gas prices went up dramatically and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska"

Sarah Palin, Politician

Sarah Palin

"After all, an overvalued dollar gives us the ability to buy foreign goods at lower prices. And the existing volume of exports brings more yen and euros than they would if the dollar were more competitive"

Martin Feldstein, Economist

"Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper"

Charles Mackay, Poet

"There's plenty of juice to keep this economy going"

Steve Forbes, Businessman

"It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income"

Leonard Orr, Celebrity

"For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary. Sometimes that was $50 a week"

Pink, Musician

Pink

"Domestic inflation reflects domestic monetary policy"

Martin Feldstein, Economist

"Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes, and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?"

Barry Goldwater, Politician

"The participation of our country in the eurozone is a guarantee for the country's monetary stability. It is a driver of financial prosperity"

Lucas Papademos, Politician

Lucas Papademos

"People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income"

Robert Half, Businessman

"Here in Australia, we do get impacted by global economic events. But we should have some confidence that our economy has got strong underlying fundamentals"

Julia Gillard, Statesman

Julia Gillard

"The financial crisis in our country is not a passing storm. Given the size of the problems, our national effort will not be completed in 2012. It will take many years and will require the efforts and insistence of several governments"

Lucas Papademos, Politician

Lucas Papademos

"The fact remains that most of us are anesthetized to the true cost and true value of long term care insurance"

Michael Burgess, Congressman

Michael Burgess

"The most important thing, however, is the money. What use would it be to us, to have a a mighty stadium, but a useless team, because we couldn't afford anything better?"

Franz Beckenbauer, Athlete

"What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble"

Arthur Laffer, Economist

Arthur Laffer

"The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view"

Jeffrey Sachs, Economist

"Uncertainty is killing this economy"

Herman Cain, Businessman

"Purchasing power is a license to purchase power"

Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher

"This country pays a price whenever our economy fails to deliver rising living standards to our citizens - which is exactly what has been the case for years now. We pay a price when our political system cannot come together and agree on the difficult but necessary steps to rein in entitlement spending or reform our tax system"

Chris Christie, Politician

"We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises a quarter century from now, the one that America developed in 2007 and 2008 is going to be one of those crises"

Lawrence Summers, Economist

"A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime"

Chris Christie, Politician

"Those people are unabashedly ruthless as far as money is concerned"

Giovanni Ribisi, Actor

Giovanni Ribisi

"I can see the evil, I can tell it, I know it's illegal. I don't think about it, I deposit every other zero"

Kendrick Lamar, Musician

Kendrick Lamar

"Everybody is talking today about the economy"

Joschka Fischer, Politician

"I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend"

Joan Crawford, Actress

"The money's the same, whether you earn it or scam it"

Bobby Heenan, Entertainer

"The issue of remittances, where we have millions of Mexicans working in the United States sending back dollars. He said they send back 10 billion dollars a year"

Tom Tancredo, Politician

"You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt"

Daniel Hannan, Politician

"Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money"

Glenn Miller, Musician

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