Quotes About Money

The neighborhood drug dealer kicks out his wife. He moves in a girlfriend and the wife finds out. The wife lets herself back into the house and steals a hundred thousand dollars that the drug dealer can't report missing. The drug dealer's wife goes to India, where she sends her husband a cable: The people here are poor so I gave them all your money.

It is weird and unsettling that a person who is hired to handle your money, make wise decisions about it, and, ostensibly, keep you from losing it is called a broker.

Money gives you independence; but when you start chasing it, it is never enough.

Remember, whenever money is involved it brings out horrific things in people. It has the power not only to split families apart but to destroy the foundation of one's life. Never lose sight of this. Take time and be certain you place your trust in those whose interest and goals mirror your own.

Remember whenever money is involved, it brings out horrific things in people. It has the power not only to split families apart, but to destroy the foundations of one's life. Never lose site of this. Take time and be certain you place your trust in those whose interests and goals mirror your own.

Did you say five hundred twenty-two people? Um-hum. I'll kick in some extra cash, if you're running low. Cash isn't a problem. Space is. I don't need money. I need Shea Stadium.

The rhythm of editing, the length of a frame- these are not merely dictated by the professional need to establish a link with the audience (as they are thought to be). They express the character and the originality of the author of the film. At the present time cineastes use editing rhythm to gild the pill that has to be swallowed by the unfortunate audience. According to me, entirely in order to make money.

Gianni (Antonioni's friend) was telling us horrifying things today about England, which he found hardly recognizable after an interval of two years. Spiritual degeneration. Money and make-believe replacing the life of the spirit.

Además, ejercía una profesión noble. Es verdad, cobra dinero por ello. Me gustaría saber si un hombre puede ser buen médico y buscar al mismo tiempo su propio provecho. Quizá sea posible.

They are very greedy. You always have to pay bribes. If they want to buy this glass you tell them it's five dollars. They will beat you down to one dollar, then they will say, "OK I will give you $3, but you give me $2 back!

Prince Bandar has the ability to charm the powerful and his country's money with which to buy friendship and influence. He is comfortable and inventive at circumventing laws and restrictions and has on occasions appeared to be loose with the truth. This made him the ideal person to negotiate the world's ultimate arms deal.

To secure a contract, a company must secure the support not merely of a senior prince, often through an established agent through whom very substantial commissions have to be paid; but also of many ministers and officials down the line.'74

Although the FBI and later the 9/11 Commission ultimately stated that the money was not intentionally being diverted to fund terrorists,9 investigators were surprised to discover how lax the safeguards at Riggs Bank were,10 especially as the bank was known to have close links to the CIA.11

Money is paid to them in Germany and the kick-back is transferred to the local military attaché and he transfers it to the princes.' He concluded: 'Not a piece of equipment would go from the US to Saudi without Bandar getting a commission.'13

American Psycho] is "throughout numbingly boring, and for much of the time deeply and extremely disgusting. Not interesting-disgusting, but disgusting-disgusting: sickening, cheaply sensationalist, pointless except as a way of earning its author some money and notoriety.

He can see the expression on his face, and what is one to do with pity? Is it all just useless Confederate money?

em unless you got the money to pay." Fred has been given a regimen of meds for HIV, but he stopped

Just as the only real antidote to the temptations of money is lavish generosity, so the only real antidote to the temptations of power is choosing to spend our power in the opposite of the way the world encourages us to spend it: not on getting closer to the sources of additional power or on securing our own round-the-clock sense of comfort and control, but spend it on getting closer to the relatively powerless.

Making money is art. And working is art. And good business is the best art.

You know it's ART, when the check clears.

Business art is the step that comes after art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist. Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. During the hippie era people put down the idea of business. They'd say "money is bad" and "working is bad". But making money is art, and working is art - and good business is the best art.

I like money on the wall. Say you were going to buy a $200,000 painting. I think you should take that money, tie it up, and hang it on the wall. Then when someone visited you the first thing they would see is the money on the wall.

Being in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art, and good business is the best art

If you ran out of ways to please and you had no family money, you went to law school.