Quotes About Money

I don't want to be a guy who's just sitting on the bench stealing money.

There's always one character, I think, in every town who's the obsessive who steals money to go and buy records.

Dependence on private money to run campaigns causes pain to Republicans and Democrats alike - and business owners. It's time we did something about it. And public financing of elections should be the first step.

If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you.

Any time you're stepping out on a limb as an artist, it's scary, especially when you have a lot of success. When you're reaching a lot of people, the masses, it's easy to stay in that niche, you know? Especially when you're making a lot of money and you know there's a formula, it's easy to stay in that rut.

I would not mind stepping into movies if it is a good project. If it is changing my career in a good way, then of course I will keep money aside.

Not counting 'Small Steps,' I think 'Holes' is my best book, in terms of plot, and setting, and the way the story revealed itself. It hasn't changed my life, other than that I have more money than I did before I wrote it. I'm still too close to 'Small Steps' to compare it to 'Holes.'

You can be taking two steps forward as an actor, but if a movie doesn't make money, you might as well be taking two steps backwards. It's all about economics.

The economy which prefers fictitious money to real, is, at best, like that which prefers a leaky ship to a sound one.

If you want to stop the war machine, you'll have to go after the money machine.

Without deposit banking modern economies would be impossible. Banks are not only a means of safeguarding money, but also a method of maintaining a constant and energetic flow of capital within a complex economy. Without deposit banking money that is saved is hidden away and removed from the economy—it does nothing except preserve its original worth. Deposit banking, however, allows saved money to be loaned and invested, thereby producing more wealth.

Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.

Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.

The leaders of the backlash may talk Christ, but they walk corporate. Values may "matter most" to voters, but they always take a backseat to the needs of money

At the center of it all is a way of thinking about class that both encourages class hostility of the kind we see in Kansas and simultaneously denies the economic basis of the grievance. Class, conservatives insist, is not really about money or birth or even occupation. It is primarily a matter of authenticity, that most valuable cultural commodity.

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Universities began learning the art of turning the insights of their researchers into large chunks of money by hiring more lawyers and making new kinds of deals, becoming experts in protecting intellectual property, installing startup incubators, and building research parks. Seen from this angle, it looks like universities and scientists aren't fighting against the profit motive; they've been infected by it.

Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

It's easier to accumulate wealth if you don't live in a high-status neighborhood.

If your goal is to become financially secure, you'll likely attain it…. But if your motive is to make money to spend money on the good life,… you're never gonna make it.

Money should never change one's values…. Making money is only a report card. It's a way to tell how you're doing.