Quotes About Money

Bribes over two dollars are tax deductible

Money could buy her slippers. Only crazy would get her a man.

Moi je vole, je plane, tandis qu'il y a pleins de gens qui sont morts de l'interieur. […] L'argent qu'ils gagnent, ils le dépensent dans une télévision neuve, alors que l'ancienne marche encore, dans une nouvelle voiture, parce que la précédente est trop vielle, ou dans des vacances pour se distraire et oublier cet affreux boulot qu'ils sont obligés de faire parce qu'ils ont besoin de cet argent…

Expensive clothes are a waste of money.

The greatest misfortune for a poor country is that, instead of producing wealth, it produces rich people. But rich people without wealth. In fact, it would be better to call them moneyed rather than rich: a rich person is one who possesses the means of production. A rich person is someone who generates money and provides jobs. A moneyed person is someone who quite simply has some cash. Or rather, he thinks he has. For, in reality, it's the cash that has him.

money brings confusion.

You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China.

And I think the more money you put in people's hands, the more they will spend. And if they don't spend it, they invest it. And investing it is another way of creating jobs. It puts money into mutual funds or other kinds of banks that can go out and make loans, and we need to do that.

Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.

I can't really act - I'm just trying to make as much money as I can before anyone finds out.

Beauty is a whore, I like money better.

You know, I'm still on somebody's list somewhere for giving him next to no money,' Clinton joked later, ' but it was a pretty good chunk of what I had.

High doses of a single antioxidant may upset this delicate balance and may actually diminish your body's ability to fight cancer.16 When you buy antioxidant supplements, you may be doling out money to live a shorter life.

The $50 billion weight-loss industry has been fed by an endless parade of fad diets offering quick-fix solutions.

Campbell could not disagree with Europeans' condescending view of American science as a backwater rich in money and manpower but poor in theoretical understanding.

The greatest delusion of this generation is that democracy still works when both the Congress and the presidency are blatantly influenced by corporate money.

The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

Neither money nor credit is a factor of production. Debtors do the work to pay their creditors. This means that interest is not a "return to a factor of production." Little credit is used to expand production or capital investment. Most is to transfer asset ownership.

The way societies have coped with this deepening indebtedness should be the starting point of financial theorizing. Money is not a "factor of production." It is a claim on the output or income that others produce. Debtors do the work, not the lenders. Before a formal market for wage labor developed in antiquity, money lending was the major way to obtain the services of bondservants who were compelled to work off the interest that was owed.

Cancelling debts was politically easiest when governments or public institutions (temples, palaces or civic authorities) were the major creditors, because they were cancelling debts owed to themselves. This is an argument for why governments should be the main suppliers of money and credit as a public utility.

Money, endless money, is the sinews of war," wrote Cicero in his Philippics (43 BC). Not only money, but credit, too.

Campaign donors buy a get out of jail pass... essentially, fraud has been decriminalized.

Indeed, warfare became financialized long before industry or real estate.