Quotes About Money

I think everything is a motive for money. Every thought, every belief, everything we're taught in school.

When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.

When you are doing a film for money or to help a friend out, be clear about the motives and then finish what needs to be done.

I drove motorcycles through college. I didn't have the money to buy a car.

I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors.

My dad was a trained carpenter and worked for Vauxhall Motors. We had money, though not a great deal.

In short, money with strings is worth less than money without strings—sometimes a lot less.

In other words, it is the amount of money that colleges and universities can get—from tuition, endowment income, donations, etc.—which determines how much their spending or costs will go up, not the other way around, as they represent it to the public. To say that costs are going up is no more than to say that the additional intake is being spent, rather than hoarded. When

Aunque la palabra «economía» puede traer el término dinero a la mente de muchos, lo cierto es que para el conjunto de la sociedad el dinero no es más que un instrumento artificial que permite que se hagan cosas reales, pues, de lo contrario, el gobierno podría hacernos ricos a todos simplemente imprimiendo más billetes. No es el dinero sino el volumen de bienes y servicios lo que determina si un país es pobre o próspero.

The over-riding quest for re-election is at the heart of the corruption of public officials who betray the public trust in order to get the money needed to pay for their political campaigns. It is hard to see how that corruption can be ended, except by ending re-elections with a limit of one term and a ban on running for another office for several years.

When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money. War is our century's prostitution.

If a man loses his money through unwise market speculation or by playing the horses, he has been punished in a manner which we may call passive. By this I mean that another person has not taken special, socially overt steps to harm the offender. This phenomenon has not received the attention it deserves.

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.

Athletics have an obvious advantage over the classics for the purpose of leisure-class learning, since success as an athlete presumes, not only a waste of time, but also a waste of money, as well as the possession of certain highly unindustrial archaic traits of character and temperament.

war is a matter not so much of arms as of money

I flunked out that semester, but I got my money's worth learning about people that don't have hearts no bigger than bird shot.

These examples should be models for communication, precisely because they inspire curiosity. "How does money influence politics?" is not an especially engaging question, but "If I were running for president, how would I raise lots of money with few conditions and no scrutiny?" is much more intriguing.

For example, the RNC for years has been sending out unconscionable mailers to every elderly conservative in America. These letters are made up almost exclusively of hyperbole and ad hominem and conspiracies. They add absolutely zero to the political discourse. But they "work" in the sense that they are effective at keeping the olds upset so that they continue sending in their Social Security money.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.' – Upton Sinclair, American writer

Power is the capacity to turn people into money.

Once we determined that the money was intact, the plan was simply to buy the house. I am a lawyer, and brought with me more than

The dollar bills attached to her hips fluttered to the rug of the small square stage, like the first flakes of winter in the Bronx. (Dark City Lights)

The remarkable thing was that everyone accepted the entire process, seemingly as normal as physical laws of nature, despite the fact that it was really as ethereal as a rainbow. The money did not physically exist. Even "real" money was only specially made paper printed with black ink on the front and green on the back. What backed the money was not gold or something of intrinsic value, but rather the collective belief that money had value because it had to have such value.

THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC WILL ENDURE UNTIL THE DAY CONGRESS DISCOVERS THAT IT CAN BRIBE THE PUBLIC WITH THE PUBLIC'S MONEY—ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE.