Quotes About Money

In 1836, President Andrew Jackson, infuriated by the tactics of the bankers who were attempting to persuade him to renew the charter of the Second Bank of the United States, said, "You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning.

The Federal Reserve is a fount of credit, not of capital.

ECCLES: That is what our money system is. If there were no debts in our money system, there wouldn't be any money.

Senator LaFollette publicly charged that a money trust of fifty men controlled the United States. George F. Baker, partner of J.P. Morgan, on being queried by reporters as to the truth of the charge, replied that it was absolutely in error. He said that he knew from personal knowledge that not more than eight men ran this country.

I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had.

In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option it was mandatory. So even though we didn't have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could.

There are not enough purple states. No one votes in primaries, except the most ideological. And big money comes in to support or oppose the candidates in those primaries.

For industry to settle in a country, you first need electricity for electricity, you need some trained workers for trained workers, you need some schools for schools you need some money for money, you need some industry.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

I think a lot of bands go on way past the point where they're relevant. Some of them keep doing it because they're making millions of dollars. Or people are afraid - they don't know what else to do. It's scary to get out of a relationship of any kind.

Content-driven films can make money - something that is gripping, is a journey of revelation and is relevant is cinema.

I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.

If it was up to me, I would have put more money into the state fiscal relief.

If you look around in London, there is a lot of dirty money. People see it as a safe haven: a bolthole to rely on if they are criminal or politically exposed in their own country.

Raising money, like sausage-making, ain't pretty to see, and it would be just criminally naive to rely on the big hearts of big donors.

Understanding money is part of being independent. You can't be self-sufficient if you're relying on someone else.

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.

I hope they remake 'Look Who's Talking' - then I'd make some money!

France loves American cinema because when an American remake is successful, it makes us money to produce more French films.

You want to make money, remake 'Cinderella.' You want to move people, remake the Hippolytus and Phaedra myth.

I once was in a project. They were going to do a remake. Somebody started a rumor I wanted more money. I said, 'This is ridiculous. I'd kill for this project!'

The 'stuff' in novels touches on every aspect of the world and people's lives. That's what makes it so remarkable just how little there is in the novel about the world of money.

'The Deuce' takes a look at the remarkable paradigm of capitalism and labor: where money goes and how it's routed; who has power and who doesn't; who is exploited and who's not.

Remember this: debt is a form of bondage. It is a financial termite.