Quotes About Money

At the World Food Programme we have recognized what a valuable tool food aid can be in changing behaviour. In so many poorer countries food is money, food is power.

All the Hollywood bullshit and accolades and money really doesn't matter. It just gives you a slightly nicer house and slightly nicer food and slightly shinier hair.

I like working with the public, I like working with food, and I like making cash.

I feel like it's been important for me to use my own personal experiences with food and money to help people to not feel ashamed. I felt so much shame about my own experiences.

There are many excuses for the person who made the mistake of confounding money and wealth. Like many others they mistook the sign for the thing signified.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.

Pay off your debt first. Freedom from debt is worth more than any amount you can earn.

It's personal freedom, not hundred dollar bills that lights the soul's cigar.

I think when you get all the money and all the freedom, rarely do you get a good movie out of it or a movie that you're proud of.

You see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage.

I think when you take people who are damaged and you give them money and freedom, it can be a toxic cocktail.

I don't make a lot of money, but I get to have freedom.

With independents[films] you sort of make them on the go and there is that little bit more creative freedom. You don't have the money to slow down!

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy.

If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college.

If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not As to thy friends; for when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend?

We have no money. We have no possessions. Maybe that is why we value the things we do have ... loyalty and friendship.

I called a detox center - just to see how much it would cost: $13,000 for three weeks! My friends, if you can come up with thirteen grand, you don't have a problem yet.

That's why you call it a budget. You set it and you don't budge.

I lent a friend of mine $10,000 for plastic surgery and now I don't know what he looks like.

I used to have a drug problem, but now I have enough money.

Man sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. Then he is so anxious about the future that he doesn't enjoy the present: the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.

You can get up to a million dollars or more in life insurance in case you die. But can only get about seven or eight bucks an hour to live.