Quotes About Money

As the magazine The American Conservative notes, "Agricultural subsidies are one of the most important examples of corporate welfare—money handed out to businesses based on political connections.

The day I sat down to write this chapter, The New York Times broke the story that Donald Trump for over a decade had managed to lose more money than any other American and, in some years, twice as much as any other American.

The day I sat down to write this chapter, The New York Times broke the story that Donald Trump for over a decade had managed to lose more money than any other American and, in some years, twice as much as any other American. This is the man Republicans chose because of his business smarts and success:

And so, year after year, Mr. Trump appears to have lost more money than nearly any other individual taxpayer, according to the I.R.S. information on high earners—a publicly available database with taxpayers' identifying details removed. Indeed, in 1990 and 1991, his core businesses lost more than $250 million each year—more than double those of the nearest taxpayers in the sampling for those years.2

Then there's the whole world of sports madness where billionaire owners somehow manage to get regular taxpayers to underwrite the cost of new stadiums that are basically a license to print money for the monopoly-protected owners.

The American political process with its deep dependence on the need to raise money is a system designed not for the best governance but for the selection of the person who can put up with being humiliated the longest.

Money and the necessity of its craven pursuit have polluted and twisted our elections in destructive ways that all reduce the power of the individual, distorting the essence of democracy in ways unimaginable even fifty years ago.

But with a casino, people show up and happily plunk their money down to buy nothing. Money for nothing. That's the best business in the world.

I'm not saying justice is for sale, but if you have enough money, you can sometimes enjoy the benefits of a short-term lease.

The Sodawallas had allowed Cyrus to marry her not because they recognized his love—but because of her family's money.

had met a number of South Korean journalists who were rather jaded by North Korea and uniformly said that to understand the DPRK, you needed to follow the money.

They say that even now, despite all the reform, it's only a question of knowing the right people and having a bit of money to spend on the election.

Time evaporate, money is always needed, comforts found where they were not expected and excitement dug up in barren ground.

I always took equal justice for granted. It was kind of a shock to realize how much depends on access to money and power.

In the fish-market by the Grand Canal a fisherman sold Frank three mullet, but then almost neglected to take the money because his attention was given to the argument he was conducting with his neighbour as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English.

a tragi-comedy, telling of an impoverished minister's desperate attempts to gain money by any means, beginning with a mercenary marriage and ending with sorcery. I should think it might be received very well. I believe I shall call it, ' Tis Pity She's a Corpse.

Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money—only for wanting to keep your own money.

Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.

Next Christmas he was going to open this shabby sack of hers... and put something in the money compartment. She would fritter it away, of course, in small unimportances; so that in the end she would not know what she had done with it; but perhaps a series of small satisfactions scattered like sequins over the texture of everyday life was of greater worth than the academic satisfaction of owning a collection of fine objects at the back of a drawer.

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.

Health is like money–we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

Not that I believe throwing money at a problem solves the problem — unless the problem is lack of money.

Will: "Throwing money at a problem is not a solution." Tate: "It sure as shit is, if the problem is you don't have enough money.