Quotes About Money

As parents, we teach our kids about things we feel competent in. That's why so many parents don't teach their kids about money.

I like my life. I like competing, but it's not just because of the money.

I want to hear Damon Lindelof complain about broadcast when he goes to the bank to cash his 'Lost' checks.

I'm a composer. I know nothing about money and commercial stuff. I just write music.

Earlier in my career, there may have been compulsions for accepting films for money.

Capital is kind of a banking concept.

Money scares me, and it always has done. I've got a childish concept of money, and I like to keep it that way in the sense that I don't like to think about it.

As a child, as far as I was concerned, my dad had an amazing job, and we had all the money we needed. My life was so fun and carefree that I didn't realize at all that we weren't rich - until I met someone rich. Still, I've never met a rich kid who grew up as happy as I did.

Money isn't automatically freedom. You need to look carefully at what you're doing to earn the money before you can conclude that you are, in practice, free. This is a cost-benefit analysis we should all perform on our own lives.

I must confess I took a couple or three jobs just for the money.

Congress: Bingo with billions.

In reality, everybody in Congress is a stand-in for some kind of lobbyist. In many cases it's difficult to tell whether it's the companies that are lobbying the legislators or whether it's the other way around.

You can't win a congressional seat unless you have money. Even if you do, it's tick-tock, tick-tock until someone with more money beats you.

Does it seem like Washington's rigged for the well connected? That's because it is.

My conscience won't allow me to do films I thought were bad but were going to make money.

Drying up of capital has different consequences in different environments.

That's why I don't live in L.A. First of all, I don't have the money. But second, I want to stay grounded, to be surrounded by real people, to have my head on my shoulders instead of losing track of reality.

In surveys, many borrowers say reverse mortgages have improved their lives and provided money they needed for retirement.

I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.

There's a bigger difference now than when I first got into professional baseball because that was before guaranteed contracts, before there was a lot of money, so it was mostly survival. You had more competition.

Television allows for survival, which is the basic issue for me. You have to decide how much money is enough. You can't get carried away with the hunt for money. But there are times it shows up, and you need to grab it, and that allows you to hunt for a better script.

I didn't put Priest down. He was just trying to get out. His deeds weren't noble ones, but he was making money, and he had intelligence. And he did survive. I mean, all this was reality.

I'm suggesting that the prohibition on people who survive on money coming from government, that includes pensioners and public servants, standing for Parliament - it's absurd.

I need to make money. If I don't, I cannot survive.