Quotes About Money

Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay off my American Express Bill" - Peter Ustinov, 1921-2004

He imagined he had saved his soul rather ingeniously. Commanded by the Gospel to sell all and give to the poor, he sold his estates, rendering himself destitute, then gave the purchase money, eleven barrels of gold, to himself.

More than a marketplace to sell used goods, eBay is one of the best reality checks out there when you're having trouble letting go of something because you think it's worth a lot of money. Going on to eBay tells you exactly what your possessions are worth on the open market. If that "valuable" figurine you inherited from your grandmother is selling for $9.99 on eBay, then it's time to wake up and smell the coffee.

And frankly, if IT isn't helping you operate how you want—and need—to operate, you are wasting money. There is no chance that your IT investments will lead to strategic benefits.

It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.

You know, there's one other thing I don't do, Vince. I don't have dirty, unprotected sex with some money grubbing skank who eventually files a paternity suit against me, which gets me kicked out of my own house and leaves me nothing but a living, breathing national disgrace.

When he isn't drumming with The Who, Moonie seems to like playing barman in La Chasse. I buy a round from him one night, and he gives me back more money than I'd handed over. Another reason to love him.

Writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes.

As we have mentioned, dragons are not really considered a viable life form, as they come into direct conflict with humans over things like money and power, which, frankly, is just asking for it.

I mean, sports are big, big, big business.

If you marry for money you will earn every penny.

If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.

To support his cocaine habit, Richard committed scores of burglaries. Without difficulty, he was earning the money he needed for the cocaine—which was now between $1,200 and $1,500 a week. The fences at the bus terminal gladly bought whatever he had of worth, though they preferred televisions, stereos, jewelry, stamp collections, watches, any kind of gold, and diamonds.

Richard had grown into a psychotic sadist who had discovered a way to hurt and kill people, and get paid for it. Life was good.

With money you were a succesful man, without it you were a failure.

The following day, Melvin Belli told Ruth he couldn't, in any capacity, work on the case, citing money and time as the main obstacles. "If," he told the L.A. Daily News, "I were to represent him, I'd want a thorough, thorough mental examination of him before I would consider going into the case; that would cost lots of money, and the family just can't afford it." Richard was not surprised by Belli's position.

Richard had a plan to make some quick money: he could buy pot in El Paso for next to nothing and sell it in Los Angeles for considerably more. Without telling anyone, Richard left El Paso for good on a dirty, battered Greyhound bus. He'd just turned eighteen. Richard listened to heavy metal music over earphones and slept when possible.

no one can safely rely upon the higher intellectual pursuits as a protection from money-anxieties.

The people there were obsessed with gold. They were convinced they were going to make a fortune, and some of them did, but they also spent it.

Depressing realization sets in. Writing was invented not by human beings but by accountants. Most of the early writing systems are records of how much crap people own, how much money they have, how much money they owe, and other lowering/boastful facts of human life.

You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.

The poor were downtrodden. The press told lies. Truth existed nowhere. Everyone was motivated by money.