Quotes About Finances

The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need.

If you want something you can't afford, think what else that money could buy: a week's groceries, a month's rent, or a weekend away. That will put things into perspective.

I'm in the lucky position financially where I don't have to do things I don't want to do.

I asked her about my Family Allowance today, she laughed and said she used it for buying gin and cigarettes.

Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt.

It's not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It's now.

I do not believe that the Social Security system is in crisis. The Social Security Administration itself recently reported that the system is able to pay full benefits as they are defined today until at least 2042.

The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened.

The Social Security disability fund is going belly up in 2016.

The real Social Security crisis is that the government does not have the money to redeem its IOUs.

Having money didn't make me less of a socially incapable loser; it just made me a socially incapable loser who wasn't in debt.

You cannot solve the economy in this country by creating government jobs.

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!

Mary-Kate and Ashley, who played Michelle, were great. I miss them, I love them, and I need to borrow some money from them.

I ain't never had $8 million.

It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.

In order to be a top-tier candidate, I need 7.5 million dollars, and I currently have 0.0 million dollars.

Money comes and goes. I may make a million dollars, then get a divorce and damn near lose all of it.

We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute. It's got to stop somewhere.

Wealth is not the same as income.

Wealth is what you accumulate, not what you spend. How

How many highly paid ball players have a level of wealth in this range? We believe only a tiny fraction. Why? Because most have a lavish lifestyle—and they can support such a lifestyle as long as they are earning a very high income.

Never spend your money before you have it.