Jay Z Money Quotes

#1. The latest issue of GQ magazine, John Kerry talks about what a man should look for in a woman. GQ? If John Kerry is going to talk about what he likes in a woman, shouldn't it be in Fortune or Money magazine? - Author: Jay Leno

#2. Worried about an IRS audit? Avoid what's called a red flag. That's something the IRS always looks for. For example, say you have some money left in your bank account after paying taxes. That's a red flag - Author: Jay Leno

#3. There is a penalty for trying to knock down a cockpit door, but it's the people who try to go from coach to 1st class they really beat up. - Author: Jay Leno

#4. Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new. - Author: Jay Maisel

#5. Jesse Jackson's in trouble. They're going after this tax thing. Jesse said he will amend his taxes to show the money that he paid to his mistress. See, he has just one mistress. Jesse uses the standard mistress deduction. As opposed to Clinton, who had to itemize. - Author: Jay Leno

#6. Kerry has already begun his search for a running mate. They say that because John Edwards still has $50 million in campaign money, Kerry might pick him. Pick him? Hey, for $50 million, Kerry will marry him. - Author: Jay Leno

#7. Enron's president, Ken Lay, passed away last week. So, I guess even God lost money on that Enron deal. I believe the official cause of death was listed as "karma." The family asked in lieu of flowers, please send some elderly retiree's entire life savings. - Author: Jay Leno

#8. China is now expected to surpass Japan as the 2nd richest country in the world. They could become the richest, but that's only if we pay them the money we owe them, and that's not going to happen. - Author: Jay Leno

#9. You can put a new shirt on your back, slide a fresh chain around your neck, and accumulate all the money and power in the world, but at the end of the day those are just layers. Money and power don't change you, they just further expose your true self. - Author: Jay-Z

#10. When you work with your hands, you learn to appreciate how easy it is to earn money talking. - Author: Jay Leno

#11. If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong. - Author: Jay Leno

#12. Congress passes bills that appropriate money. Congress says, 'We're building this bridge or funding that defense project, and they cost this much.' - Author: Jay Carney

#13. It comes back to what Chief Jay Strongbow told us years ago, 'In this business you can make friends or you can make money'. And I remember lookin at Kev and X-Pac and going, I already got some friends, I'd like the money. - Author: Scott Hall

#14. Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM. - Author: Jay Chiat

#15. Former U.S. House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, has been sentenced to three years in prison. One year for money laundering and two more for his performance on 'Dancing with the Stars.' - Author: Jay Leno

#16. Do you have any idea how cheap stocks are? Wall Street is now being called Wall Mart Street - Author: Jay Leno

#17. It's totally outrageous, ... for someone to take these domain names and then solicit funds, run them through what looks like a legitimate charity using pictures and other hurricane victims, when in reality that money was running to his hate sites. - Author: Jay Nixon

#18. Having money will make you look enticing to women even if you are not a good-looking dude. Don't believe me, go ask Mick Jagger, Donald Trump, Jay-Z and the rest of the fugly men who have all the money and get all the fine women. - Author: Rebecca Scott

#19. As kids we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it. - Author: Jay-Z

#20. You make your first album, you make some money, and you feel like you still have to show face, like 'I still go to the projects.' I'm like, why? Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out. You grew up there. What makes you think it's so cool? - Author: Jay-Z

#21. This is my favorite story of the week. The Republican National Committee is in trouble after spending nearly $2,000 at a bondage club in Hollywood. You know what I call a Republican that spends a lot of money in a strip club? A Democrat. - Author: Jay Leno

#22. The best way to ruin a comedy is to throw a lot of money at it. - Author: Jay Leno

#23. 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. - Author: Jay Leno

#24. When you catch yourself lying to your therapist, you know it's a waste of money. - Author: Jay McInerney

#25. According to government auditors, the stimulus money is being held up because there aren't enough government workers to oversee the spending. So follow me, in other words, government workers who aren't there are needed to spend money we don't have to create jobs that don't exist. - Author: Jay Leno

#26. Apparently, Osama bin Laden was killed with money and phone numbers sewn into his clothing. So we got him right before he left for summer camp. - Author: Jay Leno

#27. The Senate voted 97-0 for an anti-spam bill to stop those annoying things you get on your computer. The senators made it very clear that when you start misleading the American people and start taking their money over false promises, that's our turf, buddy! - Author: Jay Leno

#28. It's nothing. A school project. My go-to answer for anything. Staying out late? School project. Need extra money? School project. - Author: Jay Asher

#29. English wine is like Belgian rock or German disco: a waste of everyone's time and money. - Author: Jay Rayner

#30. Save money live worser China - Author: Jay Patel

#31. Make sure to save for the future and keep making money! - Author: Jam Master Jay

#32. This Osama bin Laden guy, spoiled rich kid worth $300M. I have three words for this guy: Anna Nicole Smith. We send her over there, she'll get his money, he'll be dead in a week. - Author: Jay Leno

#33. President Bush earned $400,000 for his job as president last year. That's not really that much for being president when you think about it. But President Bush, he doesn't do it for the money, he does it for the eight months of vacation every year. - Author: Jay Leno

#34. [T]he truth is you don't need some external demon to take control of you to turn you into a raging, money-obsessed sociopath, you only need to let loose the demons you already have inside of you. - Author: Jay-Z

#35. Too many startups get in the habit of continually raising more and more money, which has the deleterious effect of both pushing out profitability and limiting your exit options. The less rounds of capital you need to raise, the more of your company you get to own. - Author: Jay Samit

#36. Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee. - Author: John Jay Hooker

#37. I haven't met one parent or one teacher in Missouri who thinks we should balance the budget by taking money from kids' classrooms. - Author: Jay Nixon

#38. Profile has half the publishing and they control and administer the publishing and distribute and own the records, so our group is a 10-point crew. But we got a lot of money off of the shows. - Author: Jam Master Jay

#39. People don't mind if you have a lot of money if they know you're working for it. - Author: Jay Leno

#40. The lottery question might get you thinking about what you would do if talent and money didn't matter. But they do. The question twentysomethings need to ask themselves is what they would do with their lives if they didn't win the lottery. - Author: Meg Jay