Quotes About Money

My aunt and uncle sold their place years ago. They made a kil—a fortune," he said, cutting himself off before he could say killing.

It wasn't just the money, it was the polish that the money had given her, the cities she'd visited, the plays and the art she'd seen.

ma, già, ogni cosa ha i suoi difetti, come disse quel tale quando gli morì la suocera e dovette pagare le spese dei funerali.

The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

Throughout the day, Stargirl had been dropping money. She was the Johnny Appleseed of loose change: a penny here, a nickel there. Tossed to the sidewalk, laid on a shelf or bench. Even quarters. I hate change, she said. It's so . . . jangly. Do you realize how much you must throw away in a year? I said. Did you ever see a little kid's face when he spots a penny on a sidewalk?

If you divorced him, we'd have more money. He doesn't hardly sell any sculptures. He eats and drinks a lot. Mostly you pay the bills.

Listen," Richard says, "unless you're about to inherit some money, what we're talking about here is irreversible, fatal. You have fiscal Ebola, Matt. You are bleeding out through your nose and your mouth and your eye sockets, from your financial asshole." See! Fiscal Ebola? My financial asshole is bleeding? This was exactly why I started poetfolio.com; there are money poets everywhere.

Books that hadn't been cracked since they were shelved. Give money to a monkey and he'll fill his cage with bananas. Give the same money to a dim American and he'll build a show library every time.

my money guy Richard is going without a tie now, like a politician who wants to appeal to the suffering common man (or perhaps every morning his firm takes the ties and shoelaces away from the brokers and financial planners to keep them from offing themselves)

What's this? Petty Cash

Solitude demands a precise assessment of time, I've always understood this. It's like the money in your wallet: you have to know how much time you need to kill, how much to spend before dinner, what's left over before going to bed.

We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn't hide it and the club owners paid us accordingly.

I find shoestrings very hard work. I like big budgets.

It's so easy for me to fall back into depression. I think it comes with having money. I don't have to work. I could be sitting bored and depressed at home with a bag on my head.

I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.

I come from a family of working women, my mum went to work two weeks after I was born - my parents had no money, there was no choice.

I know a fat girl, she wears an orange skirt. You give her twenty dollars and you can do your work.

The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong.

Most people who work in prison earn money through contraband.

Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.

It makes it [work] a lot easier when you like what you do. It's easy when you're working and making money doing it. It's hard when you're not. That's when that gets challenged.

I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them.