Quotes About Money

They hardly noticed when a former president received $500,000 for a 2010 speech at the Renaissance Capital Bank in Moscow when his wife was serving as secretary of state.

This was the problem with making important decisions by committee and trying to run a war of ideals with men and women whose vision was so limited by money.

Even a poor trading system could make money with good money management.

The perspective I have on it now is that when I was trading my own account, it was like trading monopoly money. My trading capital was just something I kept score with. I detached myself emotionally from it.

The worst thing that can happen to you in the markets is being right and still losing money. That's the danger in buying on rallies and selling on breaks these days.

The first thing I would say is always bet less than 5 percent of your money on any one idea.

enormous sum of... $10,000.

According to the latest study, more than half of all NBA players go broke within five years of retirement.

I hope that after I die, people will say of me: "That guy sure owed me a lot of money."

The PIRA were clients, and their money was good, which was all that mattered, for he was never a man to make judgments. Sitting opposite

International terrorism needs money to keep going," Villiers said. "A great deal of money, not only for arms, which are expensive, but to fund operations. Drugs are a ready source of that kind of money

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.

Nothing has taken more money or killed more people in the history of your race than religion,

Money bought access. But the Second American Revolution had happened, people began taking the Constitution seriously again, and the practice of renting and buying congressmen had been stopped by the simple expedient of getting money out of the campaigns. Contributions of all types became illegal. Campaigns were funded by the voters. You gave money to a politician, it constituted bribery, and you could go to jail.

We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.

A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.

There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one.

When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.

I have more Dollars than sense

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Ultimately Rockefeller's confidence games proved wildly successful. At its height, his fortune outstripped those of all the other robber barons-even Carnegie's, by a hair. By 1913, Rockefeller's net worth totaled nearly a billion dollars, or 2 percent of the U.S. gross national product; a comparable share today would give Rockefeller a net worth of $190 billion, or more than triple that of the richest man in the contemporary world, Bill Gates.

They who wanted office were accustomed to bribe influential men among the people to support them, sometimes by promising them subordinate offices, and sometimes by the direct donation of sums of money; and they would try to please the mass of the people, who were too numerous to be paid with offices or with gold, by shows and spectacles, and entertainments of every kind which they would provide for their amusement. This

Evan was more certain than ever that Scott had stolen money from him. It