Quotes About Money

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.

Doing what we should never be done: asking for money for what must remain free. The decision does not belong to each adult woman, but is imposed by collective laws. Prostitutes are the only workers whose alienation moves the upper class -- to the extent that women who have never lacked for anything are absolutely, smugly convinced that prostitution should not be legalized.

What women do with their bodies as long as they're around men with power and money actually seems to me very near to prostitution. I still don't catch the subtle difference between the sort of femininity sold in magazines and that of the whore.

I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much.

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

The Richest Man in Babylon:

The letters of Karl Marx make frequent reference to the violent quarrels between himself and his parents; the letters from Karl's parents complain of his egoism, his lack of consideration for the family, his constant demands for money and his discourtesy in failing to answer most of their letters. MARX

Most American executives think they are in the business to make money, rather than products and services.

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.

Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood…. Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

I don't think there's any money to be made doing something that's that contemporary without having a spin on it. If there's a London riots film with zombies, that'd have more chance.

Across the communication landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy.

I treat business a bit like a computer game. I count money as points. I'm doing really well: making lots of money and lots of points.

In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that.

Asking for money is better over coffee than over a computer.

Confidence, not paper or digital money, is the key currency in a capitalist system.