Quotes About Money

Alan Watts, who gave us the image of trying to wrap up water with string, made the point that it is absurd to work at something you don't enjoy, purely to make more money to be able to live longer and continue doing something you don't like.

A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.

A lot of people ask prayers in hopes to receive money for all the time they have on earth, I, myself; pray for knowledge hoping that my place in heaven receives a higher rank. MillYenteiâ™±

Begitu seseorang mengenal konsep uang, maka ia menjadi seperti taksi yang ditancapi argometer. Mendadak ia mulai menghitung, mengukur, dan menaksir apapun yang dilewatinya

Robbery is not just the robbery of money or human flesh; it involves the soul murder of cultures which will soon die if they have no more songs to sing.

What went wrong was their rejection of basic bedrock principles of investing—that high returns are leg-shackled to high risks; that you should never put all your eggs in one basket; that you should never invest in something you cannot understand. They failed to see that no one should hand all their money over to anyone simply because they trust him, or because someone they admire trusts him.

The one thing he has no intention of doing, however, is investing the $10 million check so that it can generate money to cover hardworking union members' pensions in the years to come. He pours it into the river of cash that nourishes his fraud and benefits his family, as he has done so many times before.

When I get a little money I buy books," he confessed to a friend. "If any is left, I buy food and clothes."13

Lo valioso no se recupera fácilmente cuando se lo cambia por unas monedas.

I want to take their money and let them build their ship and get off my land. That's all I want." "Good to know," said a voice above her head. Elliot and Dee looked up, and there, shadowed against the light from the swinging sun-lamps, stood Kai.

What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job.

I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, and politicians. All three need supervision.

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?

Message is more important than money. Issues are more central than image. Strategy matters more than tactics. Positives work better than negatives. Substance is more salient than scandal. Issues are more powerful than image, and strategy more important than spin. The more partisan you are, the less effective you will be.

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.

In mid-May, the House of Representatives approved the full amount of money that the Veterans Administration said was needed for next year - plus an additional $1 billion increase for veterans' health care.

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap

It takes a lot of money to look this cheap.

In the good old days when times were bad No amount of money could buy from me The memories that I have of then No amount of money could pay me To go back and live through it again

I think we are all interested in end-times ideas and also in the current climate that we are all living in, where money is a little harder to come by, things continue to get expensive gas prices are not too far from people's heads. There are more and more people. Human society's going to have real problems.

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes.

That had been the end of Communism. I had a feeling watching the tape that America would be next, but for once I kept my mouth shut. In my silence I felt our common ground: here we were, two men, neither young, neither with money, neither earning a penny or holding down a job or owning a house, both thoroughly confused by the way the world was turning.