Quotes About Money

It was also so expensive that I actually gasped when I heard her daily rate, and this is coming from someone who didn't think twice about spending twenty bucks to buy the movie Split on iTunes because she didn't want to wait two weeks to rent it.

The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.

After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs.

Murphy's Law; When someone says 'It's not the money, it's the principle,' nine times out of ten, it's the money.

Of all the get-rich-quick magnates that have operated, Ponzi is the king.

His debts approached three thousand dollars and, as Ponzi liked to say, his only assets were his hopes.

In the remarkable seven months since it had opened for business, the Securities Exchange Company had amassed thirty thousand investors and $9.6 million. All Ponzi had to do to keep them satisfied was to pay them nearly $15 million in return.

Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members' paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses.

President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!

I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work.

Your cigarettes are basically gifts. Your salary basically stays the same. You basically don't need a wife . . . I forget the fourth.

el dinero, por sí solo, no basta en absoluto para tapar los numerosos agujeros por los que se escapa hoy el poder.

De hecho, para muchos países, las remesas se han convertido en la mayor fuente de dinero e incluso en el mayor sector de la economía, de tal forma que han transformado las estructuras económicas y sociales tradicionales, así como el panorama empresarial.

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

Writing is a little bit like prostitution. First you do it for love. Then you do it for a few friends. Then you do it for money.

That was the truth sometimes. Sometimes, a woman's freedom all came down to money.

Life was like a jigsaw, but if you tried to fit the pieces together yourself, you generally got them wrong. Pierre had money; she needed money. Pierre was lovable and loved her; she would marry him. She had thought that was the pattern the pieces made. But it had been like trying to force two pieces together that didn't fit, and then, suddenly, the jigsaw had been done, in quite a different way, by other hands.

So the city emerges as man's ultimate attempt to become manmade, born from himself rather than from Mother Nature. The feeling of self-sufficiency he achieves through the city is largely abstract and spurious: The sources of our biological lives remain the same as they always were—they come from Matter and Land. But city-man maintains contact with his natural life-sources not through immediate body experience, but through an artificial medium of exchange: money.

To go somewhere and say: "I have this really terrific movie, but I need some . . . money" - Good luck!

Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

You must pay taxes. But there's no law that says you gotta leave a tip.

People are only mean when they're threatened… and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about losing them. And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much mon- ey will it bring in?     —Alexis de Tocqueville, letter to Ernest de Chabrol, June 9, 1831                                         1

Department stores, hotels, and amusement parks began to dot the landscape, and by World War I, buying was seen as the road to happiness. Money became the measure of everything, friendship and religion included.