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Quotes About Money

If I want help I need to pay for it~ and to pay for it~ I need more money.
~ Unknown
A decorator can make lots of money - assuming she wins the lottery.
~ Wendy Morgan
America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Give me the muny the cars, the case loads The mun-mun muny the Yen & the Pesos
~ Nicki Minaj
If you buy a $28,000 car, in four years it will be worth about 11,000 bucks.
~ Dave Ramsey
Running a casino is like robbing a bank with no cops around. For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins. It's like a morality car wash.
~ Robert De Niro
The only way that entire car is worth 500 bucks is if there's a 300 dollar hooker sitting in it.
~ Jimmy McGill
I think I'm pretty smart on what I spend my money on. I still don't have a new car, I drive my old car that I've had forever. But I bought a house in downtown Chicago.
~ Chris O'Donnell
When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
~ Rafe Spall
only elevenpence in the shilling.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
Helen recognised that she, and Edward, and Dorothy herself, for that matter, were not as others are when it came to possession. She seldom wanted anything. Edward was the same. Her mother had hated spending money, not out of parsimony but laziness. Whatever it was in the make-up of most people that responds to the sight of goods for sale had been left out, in their case.
~ Penelope Lively
The problem about us,' said Helen, 'is that we've never felt the same way about money as most other people seem to.' 'I've never thought of it as a problem.
~ Penelope Lively
I suppose the difficulty about us is that so far as money and possessions are concerned, we're at a more primitive stage than the rest. We're not interested in surplus. It's like being aborigines or North American Indians after the colonists have arrived. When everyone else is busy accumulating, they get bothered about anyone who is quite happy with a modest sufficiency.
~ Penelope Lively
Yet the stomach for war breeds an appetite for money.
~ Peter Ackroyd
our goods and money are consumed by taxation; our land is stripped of its harvest to fill their granaries; our hands and limbs are crippled by building roads through forests and swamps under the lash of our oppressors'.
~ Peter Ackroyd
How do you know how much to pay if you don't know what it's worth?
~ Peter Carey
Another bankable truth is that the ultimate goal of the Mafia is not money but power. Money is simply a tried-and-true way of attaining the power and influence that makes a family respected for generations. Not
~ Unknown
Innovations had better be capable of being started small, requiring at first little money, few people, and only a small and limited market. Otherwise, there is not enough time to make the adjustments and changes that are almost always needed for an innovation to succeed. Initially innovations rarely are more than 'almost right'. The necessary changes can be made only if the scale is small and the requirements for people and money fairly modest.
~ Peter F. Drucker
Finally, goals and objectives for each area need to be set. Everyone who takes on the primary responsibility for a key activity, whether product development or people, or money, must be asked: 'What can this enterprise expect of you? What should we hold you accountable for? What are you trying to accomplish and by what time?' But this is elementary management, of course.
~ Peter F. Drucker
Time is also a unique resource. Of the other major resources, money is actually quite plentiful. We long ago should have learned that it is the demand for capital, rather than the supply thereof, which sets the limit to economic growth and activity. People—the third limiting resource—one can hire, though one can rarely hire enough good people. But one cannot rent, hire, buy, or otherwise obtain more time. The
~ Peter F. Drucker
For some reason, it had become a tradition for tourists to throw money into the hole in front of the Sphinx. Of all the strange things that foreigners and rich Egyptians did at the ancient sites, this ritual most impressed Sayyid and his family.
~ Peter Hessler
more than eight hundred thousand Americans file for personal bankruptcy every year.
~ Peter Lynch
This is investing, where the smart money isn't so smart, and the dumb money isn't really as dumb as it thinks. Dumb money is only dumb when it listens to the smart money.
~ Peter Lynch
One reason bonds are so popular is that elderly people have most of the money in this country, and elderly people tend to live off interest.
~ Peter Lynch