Quotes About Money

You, as a manager, are judged on results and not on the work you do and the performance of the team. Imagine paying a guy a huge amount of money and then judging him not on the things he can control, but on those he can't.

There's a lot of money coming in, and so a lot of good players are going to each team, so every game is a fight, but on the other hand, it's good to get a good, competitive league.

We had a reward system and a protection system. We would reward players for big plays, things that can help your team win. And then also, we paid guys money for protection, especially guys who couldn't protect themselves and especially offensive players.

I had a teammate whose motto was, 'If I make a million dollars, I must spend a million dollars.' I was like, 'If I make a million dollars, I'm hoping I can keep a million dollars.'

Statistics show that most mortals sell their souls for five reasons: sex, money, power, revenge, and love. In that order. I suppose I should have been reassured, then, that I was out here assisting with numero uno, but the whole situation just made me feel…well, sleazy. And coming from me, that was something.

As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sweat and toil of one of our citizens.

I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.

When you make the decision to prioritize saving and investing your money over spending, you make a trade-off.

What you see is when the government gets involved, you run out of money and health care gets rationed.

People everywhere hear the excuse "there's not enough money". In actuality, there is enough money… just different priorities. New stadium, heathcare for all, faster trains, extravagant cathedral, subsidized education, tax cuts, next-generation bomber … each society makes different choices according to its priorities.

If I had been on 'Bowling for Dollars ' I'd wind up owing them money.

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

My last credit card bill was so big. Before I opened it I actually heard a drum roll.

The word aerobics came about when they gym instructors got together and said, "If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it jumping up and down."

The word aerobics came about when the gym instructors got together and said, "If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it jumping up and down."

It's a myth that money changes you; money simply exaggerates your traits. Money will always and only make you more of what you already are.

POOR BELIEF: 'YOU HAVE TO WORK REALLY HARD TO MAKE MONEY' WEALTHY BELIEF: 'YOU HAVE TO MAKE MONEY WORK REALLY HARD FOR YOU

Extreme emotion destroys wealth. Anything that you are infatuated with, or resent, rules you. If you get elated or depressed, the emotions rule you. It's smart to have strategies that override extreme emotions. Money is made, grown and given from strategies, not emotions. Many people will tell you that the purpose of life is happiness, but in the extreme, happiness is an emotion and will cost you money. Polarized emotions, at either extreme, cost you money.

I grew up on country radio. You know I'm a sucker for that 'we got no money but we got love' crap.

The vision of the ideal life that we've been taught in the West, which is gaining ever more purchase in China and India and elsewhere, feeds the system we need to undo. Go to school in order to get a degree in order to get a job in order to earn money so you can try to buy happiness because your life sucks, then retire and die: this is not meaningful living.

handing his paycheck over to Susan to control, he began giving himself an allowance to spend how he

Money is truthful. If a man speaks of honor, make him pay cash.

Why do psychiatrists consistently lead the pack of specialties when it comes to taking money from drug companies?" His answer: "Our diagnoses are subjective and expandable, and we have few rational reasons for choosing one treatment over another.

In 1980, the richest one-hundredth of 1 percent of Americans provided 10 percent of contributions to federal elections. By 2012, they provided 40 percent. The Supreme Court has made all this worse through a series of decisions holding that money is speech under the First Amendment and corporations are people.