Quotes About Money

We have designed a capitalist system wrong. We assume human beings are one-dimensional, all they do is make money, so we've created a money-centric world.

There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.

Republicans, Democrats, libertarians, and independents all agree on only one thing - our national politicians are bought.

You study all your life, you work really hard to do your best work onstage and onscreen, and then you make your best money playing an ant.

I took a break from theater after 'The Cripple of Inishmaan' to make some money, to be honest, and also to feel more confident in front of a camera, and before long it was two years since I'd been acting onstage and I found that I really missed it.

Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.

I didn't have the money to travel until I got to the NFL, so it's definitely opened doors for me in that capacity.

The opening of the Frontier is not an engineering problem. It is not a money problem. It is a challenge to our ability to decide to make it happen and to think and act the right way to get the results we want, we need, we demand.

One of the reasons for opening the fish and chip shop is that if you want, you can spend less money.

You're starting to see a lot of fighters, like, 'We want more money so we can be able to retire eventually,' instead of, we get to 30 years old, and we're like, 'Alright, I think Costco has openings.'

I don't mean to make a generalization, but I do at the same time, from what I know about people from the Midwest, it seems like their families would talk about money openly in front of them when they were kids. They'd say stuff like, 'We're broke! We're gonna lose the house!'

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.

So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company.

Our goal is to desperately make the best products we can. We're not naive. We trust that if we're successful and we make good products, that people will like them. And we trust that if people like them, they'll buy them. And we figured out the operation and we're effective. We know what we're doing, so we'll make money, but it's a consequence.

I know all three facets of the business: the development side, the operations side, and I know how to borrow the money and how to put the deal together. If it was easy, everybody would do it.

How good to see the moon! She is like a little piece of money. You would think she was a little silver flower. The moon is cold and chaste. I am sure she is a virgin, she has a virgin's beauty. Yes, she is a virgin. She has never defiled herself. She has never abandoned herself to men, like the other goddesses.

Robert, how could you have sold yourself for money? I did not sell myself for money. I bought success at a great price. That is all.

Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.

There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.

When the Englishman speaks of national wealth he means the number of millionaires in the country.

At the beginning a man was wealthy because he was powerful — now he is powerful because he has money. Intellect reaches the throne only when money puts it there. Democracy is the completed equating of money with political power.

I'm] as broke as the ten commandments.

I say! he said. Are you broke? Nelly laughed. Am I? If dollars were doughnuts, I wouldn't even have the hole in the middle.

I say, you don't know how I could raise fifty quid somehow, do you? Why don't you work? Work? said young Bingo, surprised. What, me? No, I shall have to think of some way.