Quotes About Money

The odd American idea that giving money to political campaigns is free speech means that the very rich have far more speech, and so in effect far more voting power, than other citizens. We

I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense.

If your motives aren't clean, money itself becomes evil. But When we don't have money enough evil, the world tells us we're losers. So what determines our place in society is not how much kindness is in our hearts but how much evil is in our wallet.

They say 74% of everything you're learning in college is a bunch of bullshit you'll never need 83.4% of everything you've got, you bought to satisfy you're greed Because 91% of the world's population links their pssessions to success Even though 88% of the wealthiest 1% of the population drinks to an alarming excess More money more stress

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

Its President was Warren Hastings, who ruled with a rod of iron in one hand and a blank cheque from London in the other.[

The only imperfection in life then was that we didn't really have much money.

When the doctor was there, Alfred refused to believe that he'd had a stroke. "I can't have had a stroke," he grated, in a terrible rage, "I've got 93,000 pounds in my current account."

Robert Maxwell had always yearned to manage a publicly quoted company, not just for the prestige but, more pertinently, to enable him to play with other people's money. The Maxwell Communication Corporation was that tool, marred though it was for him by a colossal defect: the legal requirement for public accountability.

Tom Junior invented the story that his father had won $750,000 in the California State Lottery. There was no lottery 'win' but Thomas did give Tom Junior money to start a flower shop and bought Samantha a car.

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money.

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

The Solyndra scandal occurred because of people with money who have influence and power.

Watching daring, high-tech criminals in action, I have the same thought that probably occurs to other moviegoers: if these guys just held on to some of the money they spend on equipment, they wouldn't have to turn to a life of crime.

This is odd, but there are certain things that are really embarrassing to talk about - one is my job and the success that I've had in it, and the other is money.

I think it's really odd, too, that the public is so privy to how much money the actors make and what movies cost. It seems to me to be beside the point. When I go to a movie I really don't want to think about the money. I want to see the story.

If you want to pay money for an English talent you pay way over the odds. You get players from abroad really cheap.

I make more money in the off-season than I do playing football.

The most offensive thing is when people say, 'Everything you do is for the money.'

I would just say, if Gov. Romney wants to give back all the money he's earned from bankrupting companies and laying off employees over his years at Bain, that I would be glad to listen to him. And I would bet you $10 - not $10,000 - that he would not take the offer.

'Khoobsurat' was an eye-opener in many ways. Cinema is a colossal money-churning business in India, and working in that environment offered me quite an incredible learning experience.

I never turned a part down when they offered me money.

If I wanted to work financially, I would have made a series of different choices. I do get offered lots of movies which you could make a lot of money out of. And I always say, 'Why would I do that, when someone else could do it much better than me? Why would I want to do an action picture? Why?'