Money Quotes

"The gap between the rich and the poor is the greatest tragedy of our era."

"We want to make money when people use our devices, not when they buy our devices."

"I've got a bit of money in the bank. I'm quite comfortable."

"I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it."

"I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent."

"Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around."

"We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap."

"Winning Commonwealth gold was just totally unbelievable."

"Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses."

"Money can't buy poverty."

"We are particularly poor at the open economy issues."

"Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade."

"I know you don't always need to spend a ton of money to be stylish."

"How do you make money? Spinoffs, split-ups, liquidations, mergers and acquisitions."

"I am different - if you can find another like me, then I will buy you dinner!"

"Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can't buy."

"You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness."

"If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach."

"The most dangerous thing for a startup is to have a lot of money and no product-market fit."

"I attended school regularly for three years. I learned to read and write. 'Lamb's Tales' from Shakespeare was my favourite reading matter. I stole, by finding, Palgrave's 'Golden Treasury.' These two books, and the 'Everyman' edition of John Keats, were my proudest and dearest possessions, my greatest wealth."

"Our health care system squanders money because it is designed to react to emergencies. Homeless shelters, hospital emergency rooms, jails, prisons - these are expensive and ineffective ways to intervene and there are people who clearly profit from this cycle of continued suffering."

"Money is... I'm very conscious of it because I have it. It's powerful, man. It can change you ever so slightly, ever so slowly, and all of a sudden you're addicted to a million-dollar lifestyle and you've got no choice but to make a bad movie."

"I look back at my elementary or high school pictures and I always had gel in my hair and a gold chain that I would wear outside my shirt. That's how I was born and raised as an Italian male, and I always considered myself a Guido, anyway."

"Let's be honest. The powers that be all of a sudden realize that there's a lot of money to be made from the Latino market. It all comes down to economics. That's what's happening. So what! We're in style. I mean, that's silly, but I'm taking full advantage of that."

"I don't like to spend a lot of money on haircuts: I'll sometimes grow my hair and get an acting job and get them to cut it for free. I think for a lady, though, it's okay to spend a lot on a haircut."

"If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist."

"First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them."

"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is."

"I have wasted the greater part of my life looking for money and trying to get along, trying to make my work from this terribly expensive paintbox, which is a movie. And I've spent too much energy on things that have nothing to do with making a movie. It's about two percent moviemaking and ninety-eight percent hustling It's no way to spend a life."

"Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes are dynamic and in motion. A familiar example is the stripe-y corn - called Indian corn - that you buy in the fall."

"A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to have intellectual and spiritual conversations with someone who was on the same page as me."

"I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1."

"So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff."

"Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the kingdom and was ceded to the republic and then to the state when we achieved statehood."

"You're talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year."

"When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset."

"A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden 'worthless' land now has an airport on it."

"The gap between rich and poor is widening dramatically. There's a hangar at the Cairo airport for private jets, billionaires are on the Forbes list, and Egypt's annual per-capita income is two thousand dollars. How can you sustain that?"

"The global realignment is accelerating the migration of growth and wealth dynamics from the industrial world to the larger emerging economies."

"Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some."

"You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption to do that."

"People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in society."

"I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money."

"Coats are my favorite thing, and it's always cold in England. I'm comfortable spending a bit of money if you know you're going to be wearing it 10 years later."

"After all, an overvalued dollar gives us the ability to buy foreign goods at lower prices. And the existing volume of exports brings more yen and euros than they would if the dollar were more competitive."

"A coin, sleeve-button or a collar-button dropped in a bedroom will hide itself and be hard to find. A handkerchief in bed can't be found."

"The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money."

"At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time."

"The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at."

"The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered."