Quotes About Money

I'd go out each morning and beg for six hours. I knew who to approach and for how long and exactly what to say. I was never ashamed. What I did was purely transactional: You made someone feel good and they gave you money.

Aren't the trunks stupid?" she whispered. "He says it gives the place a little authenticity. He didn't like the renovation." So the house had been a compromise: The husband wanted vintage, Susan wanted new, so they thought this outside/inside split might settle things. But the Burkes ended up more resentful than satisfied. Millions of dollars later, and neither of them were happy. Money is wasted on the rich.

Correction, he had $4.30 in his pocket

She was one of the original dot-com phenoms—made crazy money for two years, then took the Internet bubble bath in 2000.

Some argue the days of furthering or bettering oneself through a liberl arts education are gone, but that's true only if furthering and bettering means making more money...For many life reveals itself more intimately in literature than in ledgers.

We abjure labels. We fight for money and an indefinable pride. The politics, the ethics, the moralities, are irrelevant.

That's all your life is worth? Twenty bucks?

No problem." She reaches into her pocket, pulls out a thick wad of cash, and stuffs it into the cup holder between us. I'm so amazed that I nearly steer off the road into a telephone pole. "Where'd all that money come from?" She shrugs. "People can't get enough of those Thin Mints.

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

But a country which can be saved only by money is a lost country anyway. After all, what is the choice, really? On the one hand: catastrophic capitalism, and on the other a capital catastrophe.

Now-a-days lower Broadway is blocked with traffic at this hour and everyone walks; even the decrepit John Jacob Astor can be seen crawling along the street like some ancient snail, his viscous track the allure of money. Instead

The American people are as devoted to the idea of sin and its punishment as they are to making money—and fighting drugs is nearly as big a business as pushing them. Since the combination of sin and money is irresistible (particularly to the professional politician), the situation will only grow worse." I suppose, if nothing else, I was

postwar managers: if you want to avoid depression, spend money on war. No one told them that the same money spent on the country's infrastructure would have saved us debt, grief, blood.

They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn't name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered.

Don't you believe it. I'll tell you what life is. It's gaol, it's not knowing where to get some money. Worms and cataract, cancer. You hear 'em shrieking from the upper windows- children being born. It's dying slowly.

Freedom, I thought, comes only to the successful and in his trade my father was a success. If a client didn't like my father's manner or his estimates, he could go elsewhere. My father wouldn't have cared. Perhaps it is freedom, of speech and conduct, which is really envied by the unsuccessful, not money or even power.

Perhaps it is freedom, of speech and conduct, which is really envied by the unsuccessful, not money or even power.

Sometimes I would wake up in the night saying, 'Take the case of the Caodaists.' Or the Hoa-Haos or the Binh Xuyen, all the private armies who sold their services for money or revenge.

I drive through the streets and I care not a damn, The people they stare, and they ask who I am; And if I should chance to run over a cad, I can pay for the damage if ever so bad. So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! So pleasant it is to have money.

Fairy tales are about money, marriage and men. They are maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them to survive. MARINA WARNER

almost fanatically, began to see another man, and although she still clung on to Williams for his money, it was quite obvious to him that she didn't love him

You said you had enough evidence to convict Jonathan Sands of money laundering on your own." "That's correct." "I'd like to see that evidence." "I'd like a chocolate chip cookie without the chips." "Mr. Cage—

A penny saved is a penny earned.