Quotes About Perception

Jordan ran the London marathon to help raise money for the blind. After jogging that far with her body, I'm surprised she hasn't joined them!

Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

Even money, which shines so much, spits sometimes.

Common people, whether lords or shop-keepers, are slow to understand that possession, whether in the shape of birth or lands or money or intellect, is a small affair in the difference between men.

. . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money.

Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.

People who care nothing about money probably exist or we wouldn't hear so much about them. But I've never encountered one in the flesh.

The public should always be wondering how it is possible to give so much for the money.

Everyone I know thinks television is the most important part of my life. I did it for the money! I was able to send my daughter to college.

I am in an age group where it is rude to discuss money, and now it is all anyone cares about.

I've always understood money; it's not a big mystical thing to me.

People don't mind if you have a lot of money if they know you're working for it.

Sophisticated people invest their money in stock portfolios. Rednecks invest their money in commemorative plates.

Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value.

When people ask me how I was able to make so much money in the market during a 20-year period, I would always say I did it off the misunderstandings of others.

I don't want to pay good money to hear ordinary people's lunatic views. Most of the people who phone in are [lunatics] - certainly in Britain.

It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.

We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out.

On a biological level, the brain registers money as something valuable - even a dollar bill which has no intrinsic value, it's just paper.

It seemed to me that a lot of people started going to art school recently because they thought they could be famous and make a lot of money. They might be in for a bad turn.

People are not saints just because they haven't got much money or education.

They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are.

Quality is subjective. There are quality blockbusters; there are quality versions of every genre and it doesn't necessarily mean money.

It's really amazing what a money reputation will do for your social standing.