Top 100 For Money Quotes
#1. Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
John Dryden
#2. We wanted to wait until the music felt right. We didn't want to do it, just to do it. We didn't want to do it for money, I guess, is the thing that would have just bummed me out so much.
Patrick Stump
#3. I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value.
Paul Walker
#4. I reflected that had he married for attraction alone he could have had me. Had he married for money alone, he could have had Miss Vincy. Instead he had chosen a compromise between the two and had ended up with Miss Charity Winthrop. I did not think he could have done worse for himself if he'd tried.
Patrice Kindl
#5. Money is definitely needed, but how much money do we really need? If we would change our idea of a successful life to a joyful life, we would find our need for money would dramatically decrease.
Jaggi Vasudev
#6. I never thought it was fair for an 8-year-old child not to be able to afford shoes, or to wander the streets having to beg for money. To know that child's joy would end soon, when they realised there was no future.
Shakira
#7. Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money?
Ovid
#8. Their incredible determination creates the need for nonlinear thinking, combined with boundless energy. Champions also earn money in nonlinear ways. While the masses essentially trade their time for money, the great ones realize this is probably the worst way to acquire wealth. Using
Steve Siebold
#9. It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.
Ad Reinhardt
#10. Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.
Drew Barrymore
#11. You'd be surprised what people will do for money that they wouldn't do for
love.
Myrnin.
Rachel Caine
#12. Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.
PJ Harvey
#13. MD stands for money doctor, while PhD, like me, stands for poor hungry doctor.
M.N. Tarazi
#15. We'd all turn our backs on privilege, but comfortably, the way you can when you still have access to it. No one wanted to call home asking for money, but we all knew that in a pinch our parents would come through for us.
David Sedaris
#16. If you make a really good product that people want and are willing to pay for, money will come.
Forrest Mars Jr.
#17. Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
Erica Jong
#18. Perception is real, truth is not. I'm not fighting for money and possessions. I'm fighting for something more precious. I pray that as we enter the cyber age
the Age of Transparency
the facts and the truth will out.
Imelda Marcos
#19. It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.
Genevieve Gorder
#20. Every time I do a movie, especially an animated movie, I just seem to scream and shout and hyperventilate for money.
James McAvoy
#21. One of your first jobs, as you write for money, will be to get rid of your vocabulary.
Jack Woodford
#22. Who's poorer, the one who begs for money or those who have not enough to give away? Or are they reflecting one another and the same nature?
Robin Sacredfire
#23. The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.
Gerry Spence
#24. The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.
Jimmy Breslin
#25. I thought making speeches for money was a much better thing than getting connected with any one group or company, as so many people who leave public life do.
Hillary Clinton
#27. The only reason anyone would sell salt more cheaply than usual would be because he was desperate for money. And anyone who took advantage of that situation would be showing a lack of respect for the sweat and struggle of the man who laboured to produce it.
Paulo Coelho
#29. Let's put a limit to the scramble for money ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.
Horace
#30. Whenever I have tried to do anything For Money it has always led me astray.
Nancy Spain
#31. Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, 'Another romantic comedy?' You see her in something like 'Walk the Line' and think, 'God, you're so great!' And then you think, 'Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies?' But of course, it's for money and status.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#32. If you find yourself desperate for money, you sometimes do whatever, but on the other hand, if you really want to be known as a certain type of actor, then you have to restrain yourself.
Jonas Armstrong
#33. I'm often told that money and spirituality are different things from people that don't have time to read spiritual books because they have to work for money.
Robin Sacredfire
#34. He was a man in whom the dreams of God that haunt the soul in youth, though overlaid by the scum that gathers in the fight for money, had not, as with the majority, utterly died the death.
- Secret Worship
Algernon Blackwood
#35. It took many years to accept that fantasy is the fuel for my storytelling passion, and without that, I really am a hack, writing for money or approval rather than for the pure delight of storytelling.
Kelley Armstrong
#36. It's ["Into Thin Air"] there in print forever. It's part of history. People should be above taking someone else down. And for what? For money and egos people are willing to destroy other people to further their careers.
David Breashears
#38. I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.
James M. Cain
#39. There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that's a 24 hour job right there.
Bill Murray
#40. I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.
Tom Cruise
#41. It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.
Joyce Maynard
#42. It's wrong and disgusting to follow children around and take their picture and sell it for money.
Ben Affleck
#43. I'd advise all aspiring game designers not to aim for money when developing a game, because unfortunately it is very rare for game designers to be able to earn a living by developing analog games.
Klaus Teuber
#44. I know my destiny is moksh or liberation. I will not die for money or success. I am satisfied living the life I am leading, and I will die with dignity.
Sonu Nigam
#45. I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.
Rachel Sklar
#46. By that time this society is going to be completely different for one thing. Your own son or your own son's son is not going to have the needs for money that you feel you have now. The society itself will be less dependent on money and currency to get along.
Warren Beatty
#47. Playing for money, or adopting the attitude of one who plays for money, lowers the fever.
Steven Pressfield
#48. Mortals always want something more- they wish for money, but what they're really after is to be carefree. Power when what they really want is control. Beauty when they want love. Sometimes they know it, sometimes they don't
Jackson Pearce
#49. If there is a good fortune on one side, there can be no occasion for any on the other. No matter which has it, so that there is enough. I hate the idea of one great fortune looking out for another. And to marry for money I think the wickedest thing in existence.
Jane Austen
#50. I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home.
Jim DeMint
#51. [He] seemed like a kid who was looking for something, looking for something, just didn't know what it was. I was like that once, but then I realized what I was looking for: Money! Ha! Ha hyah, hooh boy! (pg.43)
Jon Krakauer
#52. Both lyrically and sonically, glam metal is the sensible accompaniment for removing one's pants for money.
Chuck Klosterman
#53. A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.
Henry A. Wallace
#54. I've never done heroin or slept with people for money or anything.
Amy Sedaris
#55. Now, he'd loved money for money's sake. He loved the feel of it, not only in his hands, but also in his heart.
Steven J. Carroll
#58. No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
Cesare Pavese
#59. Said a disciple, 'I don't trade my love for money.'
Said the Master, 'isn't itas bad - or worse - that you trade it for love?
Anthony De Mello
#60. By the way, I've been homeless for the past two years. Some of you may think, Aw, how sad. Others may think, Ha, ha, loser! But if you saw me on the street, ninety-nine percent of you would walk right past like I'm invisible. You'd pray, Don't let him ask me for money.
Rick Riordan
#61. I melted, my emotions softening into this huge, gooey ball of adoration. I wanted to laugh and cry and hug him until I decided having a boyfriend who slept with scores of other women for money wasn't really that big of a deal.
Linda Kage
#63. Or some people may yearn for riches, not for money's sake but in order to send their children to college or provide themselves with the freedom and time for study and reflection which are necessary for their own spiritual growth. It is not power or money that such people love; it is humanity.
M. Scott Peck
#64. Sometimes emotions can win fights. Sometimes letting your feelings out in a fight can win you the fight. When it means the world to you, it's not just a sports contest - a boxing match for money or belts.
Tyson Fury
#65. They were streetwalkers, women who sold themselves for money to men- good, God-fearing men who went to church with their wives the following Sunday without a care.
Chris Priestley
#66. If you love money and you want to be creative, you cannot become creative. The very ambition for money is going to destroy your creativity. If you want fame, then forget about creativity. Fame comes easier if you are destructive.
Rajneesh
#67. You can't do business without money, of course, because that's how it works, but I'm not in business only for money.
Alexander Mamut
#68. Leave out the parts readers tend to skip. (Elmore Leonard)
First you do it for the love of it, then you do it for a few friends, and finally you do it for money. (Moliere)
Jan Shapin
#69. The truth now.He was disappointed in human beings.He had seen too many betrayals,too many pitiful weaknesses,too much greed for money and fame.The falseness between lovers,husbands and wifes,fathers,sons,mothers,daughters
Mario Puzo
#70. God will begin to prosper you, for money always follows righteousness.
Benny Hinn
#71. I'm very interested in what people will do for money. Money: it's timeless.
Lorrie Moore
#72. I grew up on you have to work hard for money, you have to work hard for money. And so I replaced that with, money comes easily and frequently.
Loral Langemeier
#73. My father was brought up in a theatrical background, just as I was, and his father instilled in him the need to do everything properly and take responsibility for money.
Sean Pertwee
#74. If I had accepted the offers to continue just for the sake of carrying on then it wouldn't have made me happy especially if it was just for money. Now I've got other projects to concentrate on.
Sete Gibernau
#75. The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there.
Mick Taylor
#77. Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
Marian Wright Edelman
#78. Inflation is an increase in the quantity of money without a corresponding increase in the demand for money, i.e., for cash holdings.
Ludwig Von Mises
#79. You may as well know, right here, that you can never have riches in great quantities, unless you can work yourself into a white heat of desire for money, and actually believe you will possess it.
Napoleon Hill
#80. it is precisely because we tell our children what to value - money, value for money, status, beauty, power, etc. - that they learn to lose sight of what makes them truly happy. Once
Raj Raghunathan
#81. He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.
Roger L'Estrange
#82. Money isn't the root of all evil; the love of money isn't the root of all evil; the NEED for money is the root of all evil.
Dorothy Koomson
#83. One thing I have clear is that I don't want to work for money anymore.
Antonio Banderas
#84. Herein lies a riddle: How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money, so addicted to violence, so slavish before mediocre and treacherous leadership, so paranoid, deluded, lunatic?
Philip Berrigan
#85. Anybody who can write home for money can write for magazines.
Wilson Mizner
#86. Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
Robert Frost
#87. By giving kids an allowance, you teach that child to work for money rather than learn to create money.
Robert Kiyosaki
#88. No-one works for money alone and tapping into what people want from their careers and what they have to offer is essential.
Ricardo Semler
#89. Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.
Ben Jipcho
#90. I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
Abraham Polonsky
#91. The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.
Marcel Achard
#92. People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.
Ian Rush
#93. Sun worship is fairly simple. There's no mystery, no miracles, no pageantry, no one asks for money, there are no songs to learn, and we don't have a special building where we all gather once a week to pare compare clothing.
George Carlin
#94. People who work for money are no good. People who work for honor are also no good. That leaves only one reason. Love!
NisiOisiN
#95. Most writers need to write. I write for money, really. If I won the lottery, I would never write another word. I would rather read.
Clarissa Dickson Wright
#96. I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
George Eliot
#97. Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or for any reason but because I could not help it.
Harriet Martineau
#99. Jewish people, we don't need the money. We're doctors and lawyers. It's the Christians who can't hold a steady job and have to go on TV and ask for money.
Andy Kindler
#100. The pledge drive has everything going against it as broadcasting. It's repetitive. It's ad-libbed by people who can't ad-lib. It's about asking for money, which is something nobody wants to hear, even from their own relatives.
Ira Glass
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