Quotes About Money

If you could replace high-school yearbooks, that could be a lot of money. It's so clearly waiting for someone to come along.

I was a waitress at a local pub. I was really bad with money and it taught me the value of it as I was on minimum wage.

My first job was as a waitress, and I waitressed for a long, long time. I was a very bad waitress. I didn't care if people had ketchup or if they were allergic to fish. It really didn't bother me either way. I didn't care. I was bad, but it was a good way to make money. And it's a fun job if you are working with fun people.

I started Verite on savings from three years working at Applebee's in Times Square. I was a ridiculously good waitress. I was making more money than my brother, who worked at a start-up.

A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe.

I just want to get paid to lay down, wake up when I want to wake up, go to sleep when I want to go to sleep, and my money just be there. I just want to make the most doing the least.

I was stupid when I started: the epitome of bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. It was like, 'I get to live in L.A. and drive around in limos? Really?' I didn't realize I was owned. The more money gets pumped into you, the more you become a marionette. It made me a true redneck in attitude: I never wanted to wake up ever again feeling owned.

When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I look at is the checking account report from the day before. I love checking accounts. I dream about them.

When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.

It isn't hard to be an artist and do your money thing. It's much harder to wake up in the middle of the night knowing that you're being ripped off and starting to get this feeling in your stomach almost bordering on bitterness toward people who are saying one thing and doing another.

Who wakes up when they're worth £120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!'

Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers.

Hard times is not being able to get a fight. Hard times is, knowing the company, waking up one day and seeing they been sold to your competitor, not knowing what you're going to do. Where's my contract at? Where's my money? Where's my security?

Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.

I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.

I'm used to having money and the stuff I do, but it's more of how I'm doing it now. I walk outside and people know me, and I really get paid for shows.

It was nice to be working steadily and piling up some money in the bank but there really wasn't much to do except walk around and... well, be Lurch.

For me, comedy is constantly presented as this fake casualness, like a guy just walked on stage going, 'This crazy thing happened to me the other day.' And he's in front of 3000 people, and he's acting like an everyman, and he's getting paid so much money.

I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing.

I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.

I knew it was against the rules to bet on football, but when you've got an addiction you just want to win that money back.

I think a lot of Hollywood is in retreat right now trying to figure out how to make money and make the safest bets.

Who's going to do a better job of spending your money? You or the government?

The money I was getting paid isn't going to do anything to help my family grow. It's not going to give us a better life when it's all over.