Top 100 A Money Quotes
#2. I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
Hannah Kent
#3. My son did not show signs of a money deficiency until he opened his small fist in the nursery and found it was empty.
Erma Bombeck
#4. A money-lender
he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.
Joseph Addison
#5. There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're doing, rather than playing music. If you're playing a money game, why not get into banking?
Artie Shaw
#6. By the same token, I think news has more and more of a pro bono aspect to all the networks. When we do our election coverages throughout this coming year, it's not a money-maker for us. It is more of a public service situation.
Leslie Moonves
#7. Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery as a money-making system, determines with many whether ... it should be maintained or abolished.
Frederick Douglass
#8. They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me.
Shia Labeouf
#9. The Keynesian prescription for unemployment rests on the persistence of a 'money illusion' among workers, i.e., on the belief that while, through unions and government, they will keep money wage rates from falling, they will also accept a fall in real wage rates via higher prices.
Murray Rothbard
#10. There's just something about progressive charities and celebrity-backed causes that makes every "charity" they create or touch turn into a money pit or a scandal.
Jason Mattera
#11. An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
Marilyn Monroe
#12. No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.
Thomas Browne
#13. Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer.
Kurt Vonnegut
#14. To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism in its worst form.
Roy Innis
#15. The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker.
William Allen White
#16. Letting men die is a money-saving device. Safety costs money as one safety official put it, 'When everything is hurry, hurry, hurry, when you start pressuring people and taking shortcuts, things can go wrong. And then people die.' No. And then men die.
Warren Farrell
#18. Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
Zig Ziglar
#19. Only the powerless live in a money culture and know nothing about money.
Phyllis Chesler
#20. Doing crime films ... maybe it's to some extent a matter of taste. Certainly my first novel had a criminal element and was about the similarity of criminals and artists. Pretextually, it was sort of a money bag thriller. But it was aggressively not what it seemed to be. It was kind of Duchamps.
William Monahan
#21. Movies are very expensive endeavors, and my first film was not particularly a money-maker. Quite the opposite.
Roman Coppola
#22. There are invisible people ... those who r dont have a money and lying around roads ... because our eyes never get them ...
David Rajkumar
#23. For me this was never a money issue, it was about being rich in your heart. To come home, and to be in the place where your dream first started, 15 minutes away from where my grandfather built my first basketball court, is a dream come true.
Baron Davis
#24. We the money team
Fell asleep next to that cake and had a money dream
King Louie
#25. Money, amazingly, is losing its power ... Our economy is rapidly changing from a money economy to a satisfaction economy.
Martin Seligman
#26. Money can be issued only in the act of buying, and can be backed only in the act of selling. Any buyer who is also a seller is qualified to be a money issuer. Government, because it is not and should not be a seller, is not qualified to be a money issuer.
E.C. Riegel
#27. I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss is another thing altogether, and an amusement I cannot well afford.
Lewis Carroll
#28. We have designed a capitalist system wrong. We assume human beings are one-dimensional, all they do is make money, so we've created a money-centric world.
Muhammad Yunus
#29. A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's famous 'helicopter drop' of money.
Ben Bernanke
#30. If I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.
Beatrice Webb
#31. A book is like a money-changer: it pays you back in another form what you brint to it.
Austin O'Malley
#32. I always have awkward relationships with the ladies for whatever reason. I don't know and so here we are. I was able to sort of take all of those terrible, terrible, terrible dates and turn them into a money making venture.
Jason Segel
#33. Your body is nothing but a money machine." That's what Uncle Rudy says. "That's the way it is. We're all just prostitutes.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#34. Retiring isn't even a word I'd understand. Taking what makes you feel alive, and everyone's looking for ways of making them feel alive, in whatever they do - relationships, business or work - and not just being a voice for a money making business.
Anita Roddick
#35. But they had a money value: they represented a cash profit to others. They must have sensed that
sensed that they were worth something.
Margaret Atwood
#36. When I first came to Congress, the party was supposed to help you. Now, when a new member is sworn in, he or she is told what their dues are - how much they are expected to raise for the party for the next election. It's worse in the Senate. It turns the whole place into a money machine.
Jim Cooper
#37. But love was undependable, it came and then it went, so it was good to have a money value, because then at least those who wanted to make a profit from you would make sure you were fed enough and not damaged too much.
Margaret Atwood
#38. DSM-IV is the fabrication upon which psychiatry seeks acceptance by medicine in general. Insiders know it is more a political than scientific document ... DSM-IV has become a bible and a money making bestseller - its major failings notwithstanding.
Loren Mosher
#39. I'm so Optimistic I'll take my last 2 dollars and buy a Money Belt.
Zig Ziglar
#40. Business is a money game with few rules and a lot of risk.
Bill Gates
#41. I have the reputation for being the opposite of a money-grubber.
Martin Starr
#43. When people ask me what I do for a living, I generally tell them 'I run a hedge fund.' The majority give me a strange look, so I quickly add, 'I am a money manager.' When the strange look persists, as it often does, I correct it to simply, 'I'm an investor.' Everyone knows what that is.
David Einhorn
#44. It's really amazing what a money reputation will do for your social standing ...
Sue Sanders
#45. I thought if I can do something more playful and light like my play BEYOND THERAPY, it might be a money maker. I think one of the reasons BEYOND THERAPY has legs - it's been very successful for me around the country - is because it's a friendly play, rather sunny.
Christopher Durang
#46. American films, it's a money-making industry. And in France, you can find great respect for cinema as art.
Woody Allen
#47. It's hard to be decent in a money world. We want to shut down all repetitious jobs, automate it, free people.
Jacque Fresco
#48. Looking good Matt, you look like a money.
Joe Teti
#49. We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.
Marian Wright Edelman
#50. Hereby perhaps Stubb indirectly hinted, that though man loved his fellow, yet man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
Herman Melville
#51. If you put a money sign in front of your eyes, how will you see the world?
Debasish Mridha
#52. You need a money friend. And, ideally, a money ally (or several) at work. How
Jennifer Dziura
#53. I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.
Maria Bartiromo
#54. You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.
Robert H. Schuller
#55. As people strengthened their willpower muscles in one part of their lives - in the gym, or a money management program - that strength spilled over into what they ate or how hard they worked. Once willpower became stronger, it touched everything.
Charles Duhigg
#56. So my resolution this year is: I'm not a money guy, but I want to make our next product a commercial success, so that people will say, 'Hey, there's a huge market out there. If you make a high-quality games that can touch people, it's going to do great business.
Jenova Chen
#57. Now more than ever is the time to really work on learning a money management system that can work, no matter how low things seem right now.
T. Harv Eker
#58. I needed to get a grip. Or a camera to memorialize this moment, because I bet I could make a money from a video of him. I could make a fortune ... As long as he didn't open his mouth.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#59. It's a juggling act. Every time I get going on the album stuff or being musical, acting kicks in and I book a job. It comes down to a money thing.
Tinsel Korey
#60. It is easier to drive a stake through the heart of a blood-sucking vampire than to kill off a money-sucking and useless government program.
Cal Thomas
#61. When you're a solo artist and you have a band on tour you have to pay the band some salary. You don't realise the expenses, the way they add up SO quickly. But thank god I'm not a money person. So it doesn't really bug me at all, I mean it's more comical to me ...
Marnie Stern
#62. Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.
Fred W. Friendly
#63. I've never been that much of a money guy. I'm more of a film guy, and most of the money I've made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.
George Lucas
#64. It was unthinkable to sell land, was to sell communal privileges or commute labor services and bonds of serfdom for a money rent.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#66. A: Money is energy. It provides our basic needs and it gives us choices and opportunities. When you have accumulated wealth, you can choose, do I want to work? Or when do I want to work? Do I want to help out this charity in town or the other charity that has a worldwide outreach?
Celso Cukierkorn
#67. A zoo is a cultural institution. Like a public library, like a museum, it is at the service of popular education and science. And by that token, not much of a money-making venture for the Greater Good and the Greater Profit are not compatible aims.
Yann Martel
#68. Well, everybody is trying to make this a money thing. If you send me to another team, let's see what I ask for. I won't ask for nothing. I'll play under the same terms. So it is not Gary wants more money. Gary has money. What else do I need?
Gary Sheffield
#69. I want it to be said when I leave this world that 'he was not just a money-making machine.'
Yusuf Hamied
#70. We've run out of good projects. This is not a money issue ... If these oil companies had fantastic projects, they'd be out there [developing new fields].
Matthew Simmons
#71. I'm not really a money-oriented person. The press always write that I am. They don't seem to want to understand that I love the comfort of Japan and love the fact it's more peaceful, less frenzied than Hong Kong.
Shu Qi
#72. You must look like a money person for clients to trust you.
Michael Lee-Chin
#73. The Yankees, you see, they're a money team, they're the class of baseball. You don't ever bet against that.
Jim Thorpe
#74. I can be a horrible actor, but I make a move that makes a money I'm secured a job.
Alex Meraz
#75. He took a money clip out of his pocket, pulled off several bills. "Take it. It'll save you time.
J.D. Robb
#76. In the long run, a portfolio of well chosen stocks and/or equity mutual funds will always outperform a portfolio of bonds or a money-market account. In the long run, a portfolio of poorly chosen stocks won't outperform the money left under the mattress.
Peter Lynch
#77. My concern as a citizen and as a money manager is, Oh my God, at what point does a 'whoa' moment happen to these people who own $30 trillion fixed income instruments?
Paul Singer
#78. My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.
Freeman A. Hrabowski III
#79. The only thing money really buys? ... Space. A bigger house, a bigger car, a larger hotel room. First-class plane tickets. But it doesn't even buy comfort. No one complains more than the rich and entitled. Comfort, security, ease. None of them come with money.
Louise Penny
#80. Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no good son has been ruined through the acquisition of horses. Unless they fell and broke their neck, which when taken at the gallop is a very good death to die.
Winston Churchill
#81. One of the most ironic things about capitalism is that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang himself with. Actually they will give you the money to make a movie that makes them look bad, if they believe they can make money off it.
Michael Moore
#82. With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.
Glen Duncan
#83. As a kid, I saw that Dad lost a lot of money in casinos, and I didn't understand that. I thought this must be a great business. At the same time, I saw when I was with him - and I was with him a lot of the time - that this was a really cool business, and it was fun and glamorous.
James Packer
#84. I endorse only products I actually use. Like Wheaties keeps offering me money, but I don't eat Wheaties, so I can't do it. Now, if Rice Krispies or Frosted Flakes offered me a deal, I'd take it right away. Apple Jacks, I'd be on the box in a heartbeat. Apple Shaqs. Yeah.
Shaquille O'Neal
#85. Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!
Dirk Benedict
#86. You can make a lot of money. You can rule kingdoms or run huge businesses or control vast terrain. But if you're just doing it for yourself, you're not really a success.
Tony Robbins
#87. The government is somewhat inept, but the private sector is inept in general. How many companies do venture capitalists invest in that go poorly? By far most of them. However, every once in a while a Google or a Microsoft comes out, so people keep giving them money.
Bill Gates
#88. It was the case in the 70s and 80s that people believed music could change the world. But now people aren't making music because they want to change the world; they're making music because they want to just make a ton of money.
Sinead O'Connor
#89. I believe that persistent effort, supported by a character-based foundation, will enable you to get more of the things money will buy and all of the things money won't buy.
Zig Ziglar
#90. When I was young and crazy, I was young and crazy. It can be hard enough just to BE in your teens and 20s. Then add fame, money, access, and every single person telling you that you're the greatest person who ever was, and it can be a recipe for disaster. Some people literally don't survive it.
Rob Lowe
#91. Happiness in a family really revolves around how much money I have in my disposal.
Vann Chow
#92. Money hasn't any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone's promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#93. If you want to make money and have action, you need to work from like, 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Those are the hours. That just doesn't fit with a lot of people's schedules. And that's just the start of it. You've got to realize what you are getting into.
Chris Moneymaker
#94. Getting movies made is not as difficult as people think. Making movies is easy. You get a script, you get a director, you raise the money, you make the movie.
Stephen Baldwin
#95. Two things a wise man never discloses to the public; his money and his women.
Habeeb Akande
#96. Those who never think of money need a great deal of it.
Agatha Christie
#97. Even if you are a preacher or a pastor, you will never be able to avoid questions related to money.
Sunday Adelaja
#98. I used to do films for money earlier. I never knew what perception meant. I didn't give too much attention to scripts. It was either to buy a house or to buy a car. There was a certain frivolity to the way I used to pick up things. I wasn't taking my career seriously.
Emraan Hashmi
#99. It seems that England's royal family is running out of money. They are down to just $1.6 million. Well sure, that's what happens when nobody in your family has had a job for the last thousand years.
Jay Leno
#100. Fathering imposed an obligation that was more than your money, your body, or your time, a presence neither physical nor measurable by clocks: open-ended, eternal, and invisible, like the commitment of gravity to the stars.
Michael Chabon
